Most AI translation tools rely on cloud services.
Audio leaves your device, gets processed elsewhere, and comes back translated.
As open speech recognition, translation, and TTS models continue to improve, it feels increasingly possible to build communication tools that run on infrastructure users actually control.
That’s one of the ideas behind PolyTalk, an open-source translation platform we’re building.
Privacy, ownership, and transparency may soon matter as much as model quality.
Do you think communication tools like translation, transcription, and speech interfaces will eventually move back toward local and self-hosted deployments?
There are ton of great selfhosted tools for tts and similar interfaces.
I used https://github.com/resemble-ai/chatterbox to make my own voice read my epubs, albeit with an american accent which I definitely don’t have in real life. It was close enough to put the voice in the uncanny valley according to my wife.
I think most end users will go for a cloud app or website for their needs though, playing around with self-hosting isn’t for everyone.