You speak in your language
It becomes the room’s language
It plays through the speaker
Through whatever your laptop plays to — the venue PA, a portable speaker, or the laptop itself.
What it is
Captions only reach the part of a room that can look at a screen. Voice to Voice takes care of the rest: while you talk, Newey translates the way it always does, and each sentence — once its translation has settled — is spoken aloud in the other language through whatever your laptop plays to. The venue PA, a portable speaker, a pair of headphones.
Nothing changes about how you present. You speak at your own pace, in your own language, and the interpreted voice follows a beat behind, sentence by sentence. Captions keep running at the same time, so the room can read, listen, or both.
Your microphone audio is not part of the trip. It still goes straight from your browser to the speech engine; only the translated sentence passes through our servers to be spoken, and it is discarded as soon as the request finishes.
When to use it
How to use it
Start a microphone session
Voice to Voice rides along on an ordinary caption session. Pick the microphone as your input, set the language you speak and the language the room should hear, then press [Start].
Turn on the [Voice to Voice] card
The card sits on the live screen once the session is running. Flip its switch — that click is also what lets your browser play sound, so it has to be you rather than a timer.
Pick a voice, and hear it first
Every language brings its own set of voices to choose from. Preview plays a sample, so you know what the room is about to hear before anyone else does.
Send the sound where the room can hear it
Whatever your browser plays through is what the audience gets — the venue PA, a portable speaker, or the laptop itself for a small group.
Talk
Confirmed sentences are spoken in order, and the card shows what is playing, what is waiting, and whether it is catching up. Switch it off mid-session and the captions carry on without it.
Details & tips
Keep the microphone away from the speaker
The interpreted voice is real sound in the room, so a microphone sitting next to the speaker hears it and interprets it all over again. A headset, a lapel mic, or plain distance keeps that loop from forming.
It keeps pace with you
Speech runs ahead of any interpreter. When the voice falls behind, it speeds up a little to close the gap, and you can let it drop sentences that have fallen too far back rather than drift further from what you are saying. Both are switches on the card.
Nothing gets unsaid
A sentence is spoken only after its translation has settled, so the voice never takes back a word the room has already heard.
Your glossary comes along
The voice reads the same translation the captions show. Product names and terms you pinned in your glossary are spoken exactly the way you registered them.
Requirements & limitations
- Microphone sessions only. Tab and system audio have no echo cancellation, so the interpreted voice would be captured and interpreted again — the card stays locked on those sources.
- One direction: what you say goes out in the room's language. Hearing the other side back in yours isn't part of this yet.
- The first sentence in a language can take a few seconds longer while the voice warms up; after that it starts right away.
- It stays off until you turn it on, in every session.
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