Classes, lectures, meetings: put your Mac on the table for live translated subtitles, on the big screen or shared in an online meeting. Films and calls too. Accurate and fast, with ultra-low latency: the translation starts before the sentence ends. Same language, still hard to follow? Fast speakers, strong accents, a poor microphone, crosstalk: choose “No translation” at the top of the language menu and read along in the original language, with speakers kept apart. Nothing appears in the meeting: Tingdong listens on your Mac and joins nothing. Recognition and translation run as one continuous stream, so the translation starts before the sentence ends. World-leading speed and accuracy, built on a new generation of AI speech models. Why it costs money: recognition and translation run in the cloud on a dedicated real-time streaming engine, not on a model shrunk to fit a Mac, so every Mac gets the same recognition. That engine costs money for every minute it runs, so usage is billed by the minute: credits are only used while a session is running. Every Mac gets 100 free credits (about 100 minutes of subtitles): try it on something real before you decide. In the room — classes, lectures, trainings, meetings, face to face: set the source to Room only and the Mac's microphone follows whoever speaks. Big-screen subtitles go on a projector, TV or second display: original left, translation right, one sentence per row. In a hybrid meeting, share the subtitle window in Zoom or Teams so remote people read the same bilingual subtitles. Netflix, YouTube, a film in the original language, an online course, a podcast — press start and the translation appears while it plays. Rather listen than read? Turn on Read aloud. Online meetings on Zoom, Teams or Google Meet: the translation appears as people speak, with speakers kept apart, so an hour reads like a transcript, not a wall of text. WHAT YOU GET • In-room subtitles from the Mac's own microphone, no extra hardware • Big-screen subtitles, and a subtitle window to share in an online meeting or drag over anything; both show Side by side • Subtitles for videos, online meetings, anything your Mac plays • 60+ languages, detected automatically • Call Translation for FaceTime, Zoom, Teams and iPhone calls • Read aloud: the translation in a natural voice, in 60+ languages • No translation: live subtitles in the original language; sessions export as .md or .srt • Subtitle history kept on your Mac, searchable later LANGUAGES French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic, Hindi, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Vietnamese, Thai, Turkish, Polish, Dutch, Indonesian — and 40 more. MADE FOR • Students and researchers in classes and lectures in another language • Cross-border and hybrid meetings and trainings: no more guessing at half of it • Living or working abroad: support lines, interviews, appointments • Series, films and YouTube in the original language; turn on Original to see both lines • Learning a language from real speech, not textbook audio HOW CALLS WORK Hand an iPhone call to your Mac over Bluetooth and Tingdong translates it live: what the other side says appears as subtitles in your language, and with Read aloud on you hear it too. Also FaceTime, Zoom and Teams. The other side installs nothing. Start Call Translation and join the call as usual — there are no microphone settings to change. iOS does not let any app capture call audio on the phone, but the Mac can. Tingdong translates what you hear; you speak as you normally would. PRIVACY Audio is streamed to the recognition engine only while a session is actually running. It is not recorded or stored, and your subtitle history never leaves your Mac. MEMBERSHIP A membership covers everyday meetings, lectures, calls and videos, monthly or yearly. One-time Credits packs are also available and stack on top of a membership. Payment is handled by the App Store; cancel anytime in your App Store account settings.
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