Over the past few months, we've been working on a project called PolyTalk.

The original goal was pretty simple: make real-time multilingual communication possible without depending on external translation APIs or cloud-only services.

While testing existing solutions, we noticed that many of them required sending conversations through third-party infrastructure. That works for some use cases, but it wasn't a great fit for organizations that care about privacy, deployment flexibility, or keeping communication workflows under their own control.

So we started building a self-hosted, open-source speech-to-speech translation platform instead.

A few things we've focused on:

Real-time speech translation Self-hosted deployment Open-source core No external translation APIs Live audio translation

The project is still evolving, but it's been interesting exploring the challenges of multilingual communication, local AI infrastructure, and real-time translation workflows.

I'd be curious to hear how others here approach translation.

Are you using cloud-based services, self-hosted tools, or something in between?

GitHub: https://github.com/PolyTalkIO/polytalk

Website: https://polytalk.io/