Speak Tamil. They read English.
Speecho listens to the room and streams English subtitles while the sentence is still being spoken. The people who grew up speaking English at school follow the same talk as everyone else, on the phones already in their hands.
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For rooms where the elders speak Tamil and the children answer in English
The gap that opens up one generation into a diaspora, in the middle of the meeting.
A Tamil chaplaincy where half the pews were born here
The homily is in Tamil, the teenagers understand maybe half of it, and the family that married in speaks no Tamil at all. Somebody whispers a running translation and misses the service themselves.
Now: The English appears on the screen, or on the phone of anyone who scans the QR code in the newsletter. Nobody has to whisper.
Association meetings and AGMs
The committee reports in Tamil because that is the language of the people who founded it. The younger members who now do the work follow the numbers and lose the reasoning.
Now: Minutes, motions and the discussion around them read in English as they are spoken - and the session is saved afterwards in both languages.
Weddings, funerals and the speeches nobody rehearses
An uncle speaks for ten minutes in Tamil at a wedding where a third of the guests are English-speaking in-laws. They clap at the end and never learn what was said.
Now: Subtitles on a screen at the side of the room, or a link in the invitation. The speech lands with the whole room instead of half of it.
Subtitles appear while the sentence is still being spoken
Interim words show up instantly and settle as the phrase completes - the Tamil above, the English below.
வணக்கம், இன்று வந்ததற்கு நன்றி.
Welcome, and thank you for coming today.
முதலில் கணக்கு அறிக்கையைப் பார்ப்போம்.
We will start with the accounts.
கேள்விகள் இருந்தால், கடைசியில் நேரம் இருக்கிறது.
If you have questions, there is time at the end.
Three steps, and the room is reading
Set up once; after that it is one button before you start.
1. Pick where the sound comes from
The microphone in the room, or the audio of a browser tab if the meeting is online. Taking audio from the sound desk beats a laptop microphone in a large room.
Note: tab audio needs Chrome or Edge. In Safari and Firefox the microphone is the way in.
2. Share the reading link
One link, shown as a QR code on the screen or printed in the programme. It opens in a browser - no install, no account, and each reader sets their own text size.
put the subtitles on the projector in fullscreen instead, and nobody needs a phone at all.
3. Start, and stop when you are done
Billed by the second while the session runs, from a pay-as-you-go balance. Pause it over a break and nothing is charged.
the session is saved as a transcript in both languages, exportable as text or subtitles.
Hear English instead of reading it
The live interpreter speaks the translation aloud in a natural voice, a few seconds behind the speaker. Listeners scan a QR code and hear it in their headphones, up to 20 per session.
Pay only for what you use
Top up once. Credits never expire. No subscription. One wallet for transcription, scans and captions.
New accounts get 15 free minutes to try - credits work for scans and captions too.
Frequently asked questions
Does it cope with Tamil mixed with English?
Yes, and that is the normal case in a diaspora room. English words dropped into a Tamil sentence - place names, job titles, whole phrases - are recognised and carried through rather than mangled into Tamil syllables. Long stretches where the speaker switches entirely to English come out as English, which is what the subtitle line was going to say anyway.
Spoken Tamil or literary Tamil?
Both are recognised. Everyday spoken Tamil, which is what a sermon or a meeting actually uses, works well. Formal literary Tamil read from a prepared text works too, and tends to come out cleaner because the sentences are complete.
Do people need to install anything?
No. You share a link, usually as a QR code on a screen or printed in the programme. It opens in a browser, needs no account, and each reader picks their own text size.
What makes it struggle?
Two or three people talking over each other, a large hall with heavy echo, or a speaker picked up through a distant loudspeaker rather than a microphone. One person at a time on a microphone is where it is most accurate.
What does an hour cost?
Billed by the second from a pay-as-you-go balance, from $0.83 per hour - the same credits as file transcription. A Sunday service is roughly a dollar, and pausing over a break costs nothing.
Can the subtitles spell names right and translate terms my way?
Yes. Open Glossary before you start and add names and terms, plus translations into English written as term = translation, such as a job title or a product name the way your audience says it. The subtitles use them from the first sentence, and you can edit the list during the session.
Other language pairs
The same session in a different direction - and any of the 60 recognised languages can be translated into any supported target, whether or not it has a page here.
One talk, two languages, one room.
Live English subtitles for a Tamil room. No interpreter, no hardware, billed by the second.
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