We Built PolyTalk Because Real-Time Translation Shouldn't Require Giving Up Your PrivacyJul 16, 2026·4 min read
What to Consider Before Integrating an AI API Into a Business ApplicationIntegrating an AI API into a business application can be straightforward at a technical level. You can send a request, receive a response, and display the result in an interface. The harder part is maOct 12, 2026·10 min read
Building Privacy-First Real-Time Speech-to-Speech Translation: Why We Open-Sourced PolyTalkJun 29, 2026·4 min read
What We Learned Building a Real-Time Translation Platform with faster-whisper, Ollama, and PiperReal-time translation sounds simple on paper. Capture speech, convert it to text, translate it, convert it back to speech, and play the result. When we started building PolyTalk, an open-source real-tJun 22, 2026·5 min read
More Than 30 Languages. One Goal: Helping People Understand Each Other.Most communication tools talk about features. We'd rather talk about people. When we say PolyTalk supports more than 30 languages, we're not talking about a number. We're talking about conversations tJun 19, 2026·4 min read
Why Privacy Became the Reason We Built PolyTalkWhen we first started working on PolyTalk, privacy wasn't the problem we were trying to solve. Language was. The goal seemed straightforward: help people communicate across languages in real time. WheJun 15, 2026·4 min read
Why We Built PolyTalk: An Open-Source, Privacy-First Real-Time Translation PlatformLanguage is one of the last barriers on the internet. We can collaborate globally, attend meetings with people across continents, consume content from creators worldwide, and build products for internJun 9, 2026·5 min read
Building PolyTalk: An Open-Source, Privacy-First Real-Time Translation PlatformThe last few years have seen incredible progress in speech recognition, language models, and text-to-speech systems. Today, translating a conversation between two languages is technically possible witJun 3, 2026·4 min read
Why We Built PolyTalk: Rethinking Multilingual Communication in a Privacy-First WorldA few months ago, we started discussing a problem that felt surprisingly common. Teams today are more global than ever. A product manager might be based in Germany, developers could be working from InJun 1, 2026·4 min read
