Real-Time Translation
Real-Time Translation
InterMIND's core feature is AI-powered real-time speech translation. During video meetings, every participant speaks their own language and hears others translated into theirs — live, with minimal delay. For the product view — what gets translated beyond voice and how it compares to other platforms — see the Real-Time Translation feature page.
How It Works
- You speak in your own language
- InterMIND's AI captures your speech
- The speech is translated into the target language of each listener
- Each participant hears the translated audio in real-time — in the original speaker's own voice, not a synthetic narrator
- Optionally, translated subtitles appear on screen
Each participant independently chooses their own language. In a meeting with 5 people speaking 5 different languages, everyone hears the translation in their own language simultaneously.
Key Features
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| 23 languages | Voice, chat, and shared notes (file translation: 30, a paid feature on Pro and above) — why these counts vary |
| Real-time | Minimal delay between speech and translation |
| Per-participant | Each person chooses their own target language |
| Bidirectional | Works in both directions — you hear others and they hear you |
| Own voice | Each participant hears the translation in the speaker's own voice, not a robotic narrator |
| Subtitles | Optional text subtitles for the translation |
| Transcription | Save the full transcript of a meeting |
Enabling Translation
- Join a meeting
- Find the language button in the control bar: it shows the language you hear and read in, or Translation off. Click it to switch translation on or off (or press Alt+T)
- Click the arrow next to it and pick your language from the Hear and read everyone in list
- Start speaking — other participants will hear you in their chosen language
On a phone the control bar has no language button: Enable translation and the language list are in the More menu.

When translation is enabled:
- You hear a translated audio stream on top of the original
- The original speech stays underneath at 20 % of its volume: the translation runs a few seconds behind the speaker, and the quiet original tells you who is talking and when they stop
- You can toggle it off at any time to hear the original speech
Glossary
Your organization's own words — a product, a brand, a job title, an internal acronym — are translated the way you say, not the way a dictionary would. There is no list to maintain: tell Mia, in the ⌘/ panel or from the AI assistant you connected through MCP, and she remembers it for the whole organization:
- «Translate Atlas into French as Atlas» — one rendering for one language
- «Never translate ACME» — the term stays exactly as written in every language
- «In the last recap pipeline came out as tuyau; it should be pipeline» — a correction overwrites the earlier rule
- Several terms in one message — Mia reads them back as a list and adds them all on one «yes»
- A whole glossary at once — attach the spreadsheet or CSV in the ⌘/ panel (the paperclip, or drop the file on the panel; one column with the term, one column per language) and ask Mia to add its terms to the glossary: she reads the file, tells you how many rules it holds and adds them all on one «yes». A file already shared in a channel or meeting chat works the same way — name it with that channel open. The same term for the same language is replaced, so a re-upload corrects rather than duplicates
From the next translation on, recaps and their transcripts, shared documents, chat and notes render the term as told; the live captions of a call do not read the glossary yet. Ask Mia «what terms do you know» to read the list back — 40 terms at a time, every language of a term on its line, «more» for the next page, a word («what about UBS») for the terms carrying it — or «forget the rule about Atlas» to drop it in every language. Available to organizations with AI features on.
In This Section
- Choosing Languages — Choose and change the language you hear and read in
- Live Subtitles — Display translated text during meetings
- Transcription — Record and save meeting transcripts
- Usage & Limits — Translation time limits by plan, tracked on the Billing page
Related guides
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- AirPods Live Translation: what it does well, and where a meeting needs moreAirPods Live Translation is a genuinely good face-to-face translator — one person, in your ear, on your device. Here's how it works, its language and hardware limits, and why a group call is a different job.
- Real-time meeting translation: how it works, and how to evaluate oneReal-time meeting translation lets everyone hear and read a call in their own language, live. What it is, how it actually works under the hood, and the questions to ask before you buy one.