DuVoca
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For iPhone and iPad

DuVoca: Two Voices

Face-to-face talk translator

Two people, two languages, one phone. Lay it on the table between you and just talk: each of you reads the other in your own language.

Coming soon to the App Store

Requires iOS or iPadOS 26.4 or later.

A traveller and a waiter in a tapas bar talk face to face. Between them lies a phone showing their conversation (English – Spanish).

How it works

The conversation screen: your half at the bottom, the other person’s half at the top, turned toward them.

  1. Lay the phone between you

    The screen splits in two. The top half turns to face the other person, so each of you reads from your own side.

  2. Talk as you normally would

    Tap Start once. DuVoca works out which of your two languages each sentence is in and translates it, so nobody passes the phone or presses a button.

  3. Read the answer in your language

    The other person’s words appear on your half, translated. Yours appear on theirs, in large letters that are easy to read across a table.

A conversation, sentence by sentence

Every sentence appears on both halves: on the speaker’s half as it was said, on the other half translated.

An example conversation.

The conversation as text (At the station)

  1. You: Which platform does the train to Rotterdam leave from?

    Translation: Van welk spoor vertrekt de trein naar Rotterdam?

  2. Information assistant: Spoor 5b. Hij vertrekt over twaalf minuten.

    Translation: Platform 5b. It leaves in twelve minutes.

  3. You: Thank you! Do I need to change trains?

    Translation: Dank u! Moet ik overstappen?

Made for real conversations

At a bar, a station or an airport desk: wherever you need to understand someone, and they need to understand you.

  • A traveller and an information assistant at a railway station talk face to face. Between them lies a phone showing their conversation (English – Dutch).
    At the station: which platform
  • A traveller and an agent at an airport desk talk face to face. Between them lies a phone showing their conversation (English – German).
    At the airport: the way to the gate

Everything stays on your device

Speech recognition and translation run on your iPhone or iPad. Nothing is ever uploaded.

  • No account and no sign-up.
  • No ads, no analytics, no tracking.
  • A conversation is saved only if you choose to keep it, and only on your device.

Before the first conversation, DuVoca downloads its speech model (about 0.5 GB) and iOS downloads the language packs for your pair, ideally over Wi-Fi. After that, conversations work offline.

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Keep what was said

When you end a conversation of 30 seconds or more, DuVoca asks whether to keep it; shorter ones are not kept. A kept conversation can be played back, corrected sentence by sentence, renamed and shared as bilingual text or as audio.

Eight languages, any two

Choose any two of these languages for a conversation:

  • Polski
  • English
  • Nederlands
  • Deutsch
  • Français
  • Español
  • Italiano
  • Português

Start free

Your first 30 minutes of conversation are free, in total. After that, a one-time purchase unlocks unlimited conversations: no subscription, no account.

Only time spent in a conversation counts, and pausing stops the clock. Your saved conversations stay yours to read and share, even when the free minutes are used up.

Questions

Does the other person need the app?

No. One phone is enough: it lies between you, and each of you reads your own half.

Does it work without an internet connection?

Yes, once the speech model and the language packs for your pair are on the device. Download them before you travel, ideally over Wi-Fi.

Which devices does DuVoca run on?

iPhone and iPad with iOS or iPadOS 26.4 or later.

Is anything recorded or sent anywhere?

Nothing is ever uploaded. While you talk, DuVoca records the conversation on your device, so that you can keep it. When a conversation of 30 seconds or more ends, you decide whether to keep it; anything you don’t keep is deleted.

Is it a subscription?

No. After the free 30 minutes, one purchase unlocks unlimited conversations for good.

Which languages can I use?

Polish, English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, in any pair.