On-Device Real-Time Translation
Caliptic Translate runs speech recognition and translation entirely on your own computer. No audio, no transcript and no translation reaches a server.
What on-device means
The models live on your machine. Audio is captured, transcribed, translated and spoken back without ever leaving it, so no server sees the conversation.
Works with no internet
Download the languages you need once, then translate on a plane, in a hospital, on a factory floor or inside a secure facility. A dropped connection changes nothing, because nothing depended on it.
Built for confidential conversations
Legal calls, patient consultations, board meetings, reviews of unreleased products — the conversations that must not leave the building never do. There is no cloud copy to retain, leak or hand over.
Is any audio uploaded to the cloud?
No. Speech recognition, translation and the spoken output all run locally on your Mac or Windows PC. Caliptic keeps translating with networking switched off, which is the simplest way to check.
How is this different from Google Translate or DeepL?
Those services send your audio or text to their servers to process it. Caliptic does the same work on your own machine, so the content of the conversation never leaves it — and translation keeps working with no connection.
Does running on-device mean lower quality?
On-device models are smaller than server-side ones, so a long literary text is not what they do best. Spoken conversation is: meetings, calls, lectures and videos are exactly what they are built for, and the answer arrives in a fraction of a second because there is no round trip to a server.
See also
Translate Computer Audio in Real Time · Real-Time Translation for Windows · Real-Time Translation for Mac · Translate Meetings in Real Time · Frequently Asked Questions