TalkieTalkieiPhone translator

Offline-first translation for iPhone

A translator that keeps working when the trip goes offline.

Hear it, type it, or point your camera. TalkieTalkie is built around on-device translation, with online features clearly labeled before they use a connection.

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Core translation
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Version 1
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TalkieTalkie · Talk Offline ready
EnglishFrench
Heard · English

Where is the train station?

On-device speech
Translation · French

Où se trouve la gare ?

Ready to speak
TalkTextLookChatNearbyAsk
On-device speechTyped translationCamera translationTranslated roomsTravel intelligence

One app, clear modes

Built around the way people actually communicate.

Move between a spoken exchange, a typed phrase, a sign, a translated room, or a travel question without changing tools.

01

Talk

Conversation without passing the phone back and forth.

Recognize, translate, and speak supported languages using downloaded resources on the iPhone.

Offline core
02

Text

Write what you mean.

Translate typed phrases when speaking is awkward, noisy, or private.

Offline core
03

Look

Discreetly point to the world around you.

Frame a menu—or choose a photo—and translate it on device in full or line by line. Select and deselect any combination of items as you compare them, then show your choice in the menu’s original language to order discreetly without saying it aloud.

Offline core
04

Chat

Write once. Let everyone read in their language.

Account-based translated rooms with reporting, blocking, and room-creator moderation.

Internet
05

Ask + Nearby

Travel context, grounded in where you are—or where you say you are going.

Ask for local context or discover cited places. Downloaded travel packs can help offline; current place information and live lookups use the internet.

Online + packs

Languages by mode

Know what you can hear, type, and see.

Talk uses languages with a complete on-device speech path. Text and Look share the wider written-language catalog, including the Belgian French and German choices that are not offered for audio.

Talk

Spoken translation

Recognize speech, translate it, and speak the result when the required on-device resources are ready.

  • Arabic
  • Dutch
  • English
  • Hindi
  • Chinese (Taiwan)
  • Spanish
  • French (France)
  • German (Germany)
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Polish
  • Portuguese (Brazil)
  • Russian
  • Thai
  • Turkish
  • Ukrainian
  • Indonesian
  • Vietnamese
  • Norwegian

Text + Look

Written and camera translation

Type a phrase, frame printed words, or choose a photo and translate the detected text on device.

  • Arabic
  • Dutch
  • English
  • Hindi
  • Chinese (Taiwan)
  • Spanish
  • French (France)
  • French (Belgium)
  • German (Germany)
  • German (Belgium)
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Polish
  • Portuguese (Brazil)
  • Russian
  • Thai
  • Turkish
  • Ukrainian
  • Indonesian
  • Vietnamese
  • Norwegian

Availability can vary by iPhone model, iOS version, and installed Apple language resources. TalkieTalkie shows readiness and download guidance on the device before offline use.

Designed for unreliable connectivity

Download once. Translate where a signal cannot follow.

Core Talk, Text, and Look translation is designed to run locally after the required Apple language resources and TalkieTalkie models are installed.

Check language readiness
  1. 1

    Prepare on Wi-Fi

    Install the languages and models you expect to use.

  2. 2

    Translate on device

    Speech, text, and camera inputs stay on the iPhone for core translation.

  3. 3

    Know the boundary

    Accounts, Chat, ads, Ask, Nearby, and live place data can require internet access.

Start your way

Translation does not require an account.

Sign in only when you want supported preferences retained with your TalkieTalkie account or need an account-based feature.

Trust by separation

Offline where it matters. Transparent when it is online.

Core inputs stay local

TalkieTalkie does not need to receive core conversation audio, typed translation text, or camera images to translate them.

Permission is contextual

Microphone, camera, location, Chat, diagnostics, and usage-metric choices are requested for the feature that needs them.

You remain in control

Use guest mode, review advertising choices, manage optional diagnostics, or delete an account from the app.

Research & Insights

Product learning with governance built in.

Approved research customers can work in a separate analytics environment with documented datasets, a data dictionary, field-level selection, constrained SQL-style queries, and audited exports.

Broad market-research analytics are not enabled by default in version 1. A separately designed stakeholder program may use consented, governed, aggregated signals when its notices, collection settings, and coverage support the agreed question. This is not public access to raw personal conversations or unrestricted user-level data.

Explore TalkieTalkie Data Discuss a research program
AccessApproved users onlyNo public self-registration
DataCataloged fieldsConsent and coverage disclosed
DeliveryGoverned exports + APIRead-only, scoped, and audited

Help shape version 1

Take TalkieTalkie on your next conversation.

The iPhone beta is free and ad-supported. Translation quality and language availability depend on your device and installed resources.

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