Make some noise for DeepL Voice: instant translations as you speak

Key Takeaways

• DeepL Voice delivers live multilingual translation for both virtual meetings and in-person conversations.
• Two solutions power Voice: DeepL Voice for Meetings and DeepL Voice for Conversations.
• Language gaps waste meeting time, reduce participation, create safety risks, and increase communication costs.
• DeepL Voice uses DeepL’s specialized language models to balance speed, accuracy, and nuance in spoken translation.
• Real-time captions let every participant speak their preferred language while following discussions in their own language.
• Frontline teams use DeepL Voice to serve customers, share safety instructions, and handle critical situations clearly.
• Voice helps global businesses hire for skills, not just language, and expand into new markets more easily.

Transform virtual meetings and in-person conversations with real-time, reliable voice translations from the world’s leading Language AI platform.

Real-time AI voice translation for every meeting and conversation

With DeepL Voice, you can speak in your native language. Colleagues and customers instantly understand you in their native language thanks to translated captions.

DeepL Voice has two tailor-built solutions to enable instant multilingual business communication in any scenario: virtual or in-person, internal or external, for both office-based and frontline roles.

DeepL Voice for Meetings eliminates language barriers from internal and external virtual meetings. It enables every participant to speak in their preferred language. Meanwhile, colleagues receive translated captions in real time so they can engage and participate in their native language.

DeepL Voice for Conversations works on mobile devices to empower one-on-one, in-person conversations. Now, your employees can engage customers, colleagues, or anyone else in the language that works best for them.

Together, these solutions create one consistent multilingual experience across calls, conferences, and frontline interactions. DeepL Voice lets teams collaborate naturally in every language without waiting for human interpreters or post-meeting translations.

The business impact of language barriers in global, multilingual teams

Language gaps don’t just make conversations awkward. They waste meeting time, limit who can contribute, create safety risks, and quietly drive up costs. For global organizations, those impacts add up across teams, regions, and roles.

Lost meeting time and missed opportunities

The National Bureau of Economic Research reports 33.8% of time in meetings is wasted because of multilingual communication challenges. What happens when colleagues in global organizations don’t share a common language? Or when businesses are chasing an opportunity with a customer whose preferred language isn’t one they speak? 

In a best-case scenario, you get virtual or in-person meetings that struggle along. They often don’t flow naturally, and it’s difficult for participants to understand one another, collaborate effectively, and establish all-important chemistry. 

Frequently, those who could contribute additional value to the conversation can’t engage because they’re uncomfortable with the customer’s preferred language.

Safety risks and frontline miscommunication

For frontline employees, lack of a common language often causes miscommunications that impact safety. 

For instance, it can lead to staff not understanding critical information, including safety instructions. Alternatively, it can lead to unsatisfactory employee experiences when support agents can’t understand their requests.

Communication costs that eat into productivity

Ineffective communication not only hinders productivity and growth but also adds huge costs to any business. An Axios HQ study found ineffective communication can cost businesses up to $54,860 per employee per year. Losses escalate as salaries increase. 

Consider that 57% of all payroll covers the cost of communication. According to another study from Microsoft, businesses must scrutinize how they can optimize communications to drive productivity, creativity, and collaboration.

These communication gaps are exactly what DeepL Voice is designed to solve for global, multilingual teams. The importance of being able to communicate in real time makes DeepL Voice the most exciting application of DeepL’s Language AI yet. 

DeepL Voice builds on our specialist language models and extensive linguistic knowledge. That uniquely positions us to solve the challenge of delivering the highest quality for real-time translation. 

By translating as people speak, it empowers every team member to speak confidently across languages in every scenario.

Why real-time voice translation is hard to get right

DeepL is well-known for its ability to translate text. At least 50% of the Fortune 500 can attest to our mastery in that arena. 

But real-time voice translation is another story entirely. You’re dealing with incomplete input, pronunciation issues, latency, and more. And all those factors can lead to inaccurate translations and even more confusion in meetings. 

In building our solution for voice translation, we knew it had to be incredibly fast and accurate. And of course, it had to adhere to the same high level of quality we have for all our products. 

DeepL Voice offers you real-time translation solutions that we’ve carefully developed with the extensive expertise we hold in language translations and language AI models. Then we apply and optimize it for real-time applications.

The result is a voice translation solution that’s available at one click, right where you need it. You can rely on it to help you converse in and follow in any language.

That’s the power of DeepL Voice.

How DeepL Voice creates a more connected global business

DeepL Voice brings new meaning to the idea of a more connected workplace. Sharing knowledge and tapping into your teams’ specialized skills, wherever they are in the world, creates new opportunities for collaboration. In turn, that leads to stronger relationships and more successful execution. 

By eliminating miscommunication and language barriers, you can finally realize your global team’s potential. 

True, real-time multilingual communication brings other business benefits, too. It means your business can recruit based on the skills that you need rather than the language people speak. 

This freedom builds healthier and more inclusive talent pipelines and supports fresh thinking. It removes friction from the process of expanding into new markets and setting up operations in new countries.

DeepL Voice becomes the multilingual layer that keeps communication consistent as you scale across regions, teams, and time zones.

DeepL Voice for Meetings: live multilingual translation for virtual meetings

DeepL Voice for Meetings supports multiple spoken languages within the same virtual meeting. It empowers every participant to speak in their chosen language and follow the conversation thanks to translated captions. 

Here’s what you can do with DeepL Voice for Meetings:

• Unlock business value by enabling meetings that were previously impossible due to language barriers. Seamless, real-time translations mean you can set up meetings with the right people, those with expert knowledge or specialized skill sets, regardless of where they’re located or how fluent they are in a language. This makes it easy to connect customers or colleagues to your organization’s value.
• Facilitate more productive meetings across global teams, thanks to instant, high-quality translations. This doesn’t simply help everyone align on what’s being said; it also gives confidence for greater engagement, reducing time wasted on unnecessary follow-up questions. Whether you’re negotiating deals or discussing strategy, real-time, accurate translations ensure everyone is on the same page.

DeepL Voice for Meetings turns multilingual calls into live, inclusive conversations where every voice can contribute. The result is faster decisions, stronger relationships, and more value from every global meeting.

DeepL Voice for Conversations: real-time translation for in-person moments

DeepL Voice for Conversations unlocks seamless AI voice translations in real time and in person through instant voice translation on mobile devices. You can have multilingual, one-to-one conversations with customers, colleagues, and anyone else you need to communicate with. 

Here’s what these voice translation capabilities mean for your business:

• Reach every customer, regardless of what language they speak, by enabling staff to deliver quick, accurate, and clear information when it matters. This increases customer satisfaction, engagement, and brand loyalty, helping you broaden your customer base. 
• Communicate vital information in critical situations. From manufacturing to law enforcement, emergency services, and beyond, you can be sure your workforce understands every situation. Faster, more decisive action is a natural outcome. 
• Streamline operations across multilingual teams by instantly overcoming any language barriers standing in the way of progress. By cutting costs and reducing errors and delays, you drive critical efficiencies across your operations. 

DeepL Voice for Conversations brings instant, AI-powered voice translation to the moments that matter most for your teams and customers. 

Explore DeepL Voice for Meetings and Conversations to see how live multilingual communication can strengthen safety, service, and efficiency across your business.

Break language barriers in real time with DeepL Voice

Whatever the scenario, DeepL Voice helps you overcome language barriers as conversations happen. It delivers high-quality voice translation that connects teams, reduces costs, and streamlines operations for your business. 

And DeepL Voice is just one part of a broader Language AI suite—Translator, Write, and API—built to support every multilingual workflow your business depends on.

Contact Sales to try DeepL Voice and explore our specialized AI tools.