Please just keep a list of supported languages on the site. The FAQ only gives a few and the bubble on your site that says more than 29 languages was not clickable on my iPhone - I won’t go any further until I can see supported languages - bonus points if you listed languages that are coming - in order of future of availability
Launch HN: Pinch (YC W25) – Video conferencing with immersive translation
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Re: Launch HN: Pinch (YC W25) – Video conferencing with immersive translation
#42Very cool guys. I am beyond excited about this — I can see how this could transform certain projects and relationships — and it is useless if it doesn’t work in the language people need.
What languages do you actually support? The site says “20+” and “over 20” and there’s even a FAQ entry listing a handful of them, but it doesn’t list all of them. What is the thinking in not just listing all of them?
Re: Launch HN: Pinch (YC W25) – Video conferencing with immersive translation
#43I really like the concept, but I don't understand why you guys are building an entire video conferencing platform. That sounds like years of work building the network and millions of VC funds. It could be a standalone app that exports video to existing conferencing services. I would pay good money for that.
Thanks! We have a virtual camera on our roadmap as well, but by building the conferencing platform end to end we can optimize both latency and conversation UX to a much higher degree. We're also lucky to be building this now and not five years ago - there are some solid webrtc infra companies and open source projects to build on.
Would love the virtual camera - will be on the look out for it to arrive
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#44This is one of the coolest things I've seen, as an English speaker who moved to Brazil and firmly believed that technology was going to break down barriers to global access: You're making it happen and helping level the global playing field.
In my situation - you've just given a way for a highly enthusiastic Spanish/Portuguese speaking apprentice software engineer I'm mentoring/training to to actually have the capacity to communicate with a friend/client in near real-time in a more human way than I've ever seen before.
Yes, they're learning English (at same time as software engineering) but you've just made connections more tangible and real.
Love it!
Re: Launch HN: Pinch (YC W25) – Video conferencing with immersive translation
#45Just nit-picking, but in the Japanese section the subtitles translate to "You can speak Japanese" but the spoken content translates to "Please speak Japanese".
Are the subtitles (and subsequent conversation transcripts) consistent with what is actually vocalized, or is this an artifact of a manually-edited video?
Re: Launch HN: Pinch (YC W25) – Video conferencing with immersive translation
#46Ofc i fully associate "video conferencing" with a "Pinch". Wake up you SV product manager dorks! Lazy effort in naming things!
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#47cool! I need this.
Re: Launch HN: Pinch (YC W25) – Video conferencing with immersive translation
#48I really like the concept, but I don't understand why you guys are building an entire video conferencing platform. That sounds like years of work building the network and millions of VC funds. It could be a standalone app that exports video to existing conferencing services. I would pay good money for that.
Thanks! We have a virtual camera on our roadmap as well, but by building the conferencing platform end to end we can optimize both latency and conversation UX to a much higher degree. We're also lucky to be building this now and not five years ago - there are some solid webrtc infra companies and open source projects to build on.
Curious about this approach! It looks like you're connecting to https://livekit.io/ under the hood - do you have custom server side components intercepting the video stream and doing video analysis & lip movement patching there?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41743327 - looks like they do quite a bit of heavy lifting out of the gate!