Both sides install AnyDub
It is a Chrome extension on each person's own machine, not a meeting add-on.
Two-way translation for live video calls
Each person installs AnyDub, each person picks the language they want to hear, and the conversation runs in both directions at once. No shared bot, no meeting host to configure, no recording sitting on somebody else's server.
Up and running in three steps
Each picks their own language
You choose what you hear. They choose what they hear. The two settings are independent.
Talk normally
Each side hears the other in their language roughly a second behind, and nobody switches to a second language.
No bot joins your meeting
Most meeting translation products dial a participant into the call to capture audio. That participant shows up in the attendee list, needs admitting, gets blocked by corporate policy, and creates a recording you did not ask for.
AnyDub sits in the browser next to the call. The other participants see a normal meeting with normal attendees, because that is what it is.
Install on ChromeAsymmetric by design and that is the point
A single shared meeting language forces at least one person to work in their second language, which is where nuance and negotiating position quietly go missing. Two-way translation removes the choice. Your side runs in your language, their side runs in theirs, and neither of you is performing.
It also works one-sided. If only you install AnyDub, you still get everything the other person says translated for you. The second install just makes it mutual.
Install on ChromeUnder a second so it stays a conversation
Anything slower than about a second stops being dialogue and turns into consecutive interpreting, where each side waits its turn. AnyDub is tuned for the interruption, the half sentence, and the yes I know where this is going, which is what actual conversation is made of.
The original voice stays available underneath at whatever volume you set, so you keep tone and timing while reading or hearing the translation.
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What two-way translation changes in practice
Hiring interviews are the clearest example. A candidate assessed in their third language interviews worse than they work, and everyone in the room knows it and does it anyway because there is no alternative. There is now.
Support and vendor calls are the highest volume case. A technical problem described precisely in the speaker's own language and translated is far more useful than the same problem described approximately in English.
And there are the calls that currently do not happen at all, because scheduling an interpreter for a twenty minute conversation is not worth it. Those are the ones this changes most.
Platform specifics are on the Zoom, Google Meet and live meeting pages.
Questions answered
Do both people need AnyDub installed?
No, but it helps. With one install you understand them. With two, each side hears the other in their own chosen language and neither has to switch.
Does a bot join the call?
No. AnyDub runs in your browser next to the meeting, so nothing extra appears in the participant list and no host approval is needed.
Which meeting platforms work?
Zoom in the browser, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, and any other call that runs in a Chrome tab.
How far behind is the translation?
Typically under a second, which is short enough to interrupt and be interrupted normally.
Can each person choose a different language?
Yes. The settings are per person, so a call can run English on one side and Japanese on the other.
Is the meeting recorded or stored?
AnyDub processes the audio needed to translate and does not require a recording of your meeting to work.
Also worth a look
Translate ZoomLive call translation with no bot and no host permission.
Translate Google MeetMeet runs in Chrome, so translation runs in the same tab.
Live meeting translationZoom, Google Meet, Teams and Webex, translated as people speak.
Dubbing tools comparedWhich tools dub live, and which just process a file.
Spanish to EnglishEvery accent, from Rioplatense to Andalusian.
How it worksModels, latency and the architecture behind live translation.
Give both sides their own language
Install the extension, pick a language, and you are live.
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