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/
Your marketing is really confusing. If your target audience is really self hosted users, act like you mean it cuz the hardest part is integration, too many moving parts. You are too late for Mycroft party. If you set your mind, take a look for https://github.com/NeonGeckoCom/NeonCore and homeassistant. If you can integrate with their ecosystem well, your user base will be more than you advertised here for a year. Let’s hope one day Lemmy is as big as Reddit. Good luck