Live transcription
Every word as it’s said, speaker by speaker. Hontoni detects the language and keeps each person’s words together.
For iPhone, Android and the web
Every word, the moment it’s said.
Hontoni transcribes and translates conversations live, in meetings, at talks, on the road and in videos, so everyone can follow along in their own language.
No card needed. Guests can try 10 minutes.
An example of the live reader: a talk given in French, read in English.
Good morning, everyone, and thank you all for coming. (Bonjour à tous, merci d’être venus si nombreux.)
Today we are launching the programme in twelve cities. (Aujourd’hui, nous lançons le programme dans douze villes.)
Every session will be open to everyone, in their own language. (Chaque séance sera ouverte à tous, chacun dans sa langue.)
- 60
- languages heard and translated
- 20
- languages the app and this site speak
- 3
- platforms: iPhone, Android and the web
- 1 tap
- from Home to listening
Live speech. Live translation.
Follow the conversation in your language, as the words are spoken.
What Hontoni does
Follow along, whatever the language.
Captions, translation and a voice from the same conversation, as it happens.
Live translation
Each line is translated as it arrives, into the language you read, with the original close by.
Listen in your language
A voice reads the translation in your earphones or through the speaker, while the captions carry on.
Side by side, to learn as you listen
The original and the translation line up, speaker by speaker. Follow a talk, a YouTube video or a lesson and see what was said in both languages.
We could get started next week.
That works. What do we need to prepare?
Let’s start with a small trial.
Thank you for travelling on the Toei Mita Line today. (本日も都営三田線をご利用いただき、ありがとうございます。)
The next station is Mita. Change here for the JR Yamanote Line. (次は三田です。JR山手線はお乗り換えです。)
Excuse me, is this where we change for Shinagawa? (すみません、品川へはここで乗り換えですか？)
Yes. Take the Yamanote Line outer loop from platform two. (はい、2番線から山手線外回りにお乗りください。)
Made for where you are
On your Lock Screen, over your work, on every screen.
A floating live window
Keep the captions on top of the tab you’re working in, with Pause and End to hand.
On the Lock Screen
The latest words and the language pair without unlocking: in the Dynamic Island and StandBy on iPhone, and on the lock screen on Android.
Designed for every pose
Ready for iPhone Duo
Open it like a book and watch the video on one side while every word arrives on the other. Stand it up as a tent and the room reads along.
iPhone, Android and the web
The same reader on phones, foldables and the web. Here on an Android foldable, with Face to face and Notes one tap away.
Use cases
For the conversations that matter.
In a meeting, from a seat in the audience, on the road or around the kitchen table.
Meetings at work
A summary and action items written beside the transcript while you talk.
Conferences and events
Read the speaker live, or hear them in your language through your earphones.
Travel
Lay your phone on the table and talk face to face, each in your own language.
Classes and talks
Follow a lecture as it happens and keep the transcript to study later.
Family and friends
Talk across languages at home, both ways, without passing a phone back and forth.
Videos and YouTube
Add a YouTube link, a video or a voice note. Read it and listen in your language.
The people in these pictures are illustrations, not Hontoni users.
Every screen
One conversation, live on every screen.
Signed in, a conversation you start on your phone is live in your account. Follow it on your laptop, or share it with the room.
Start on your phone
Tap Listen on your iPhone or Android phone.
Follow on your laptop
hontoni.app shows the conversation as Live now; open it and the words arrive as they’re said.
Bring others in
Share a link or show the QR code, and choose who can follow.
Meetings at work
Notes that write themselves.
While the meeting runs, Hontoni keeps a summary, action items and decisions beside the transcript, ready to copy and share.
Summary
The launch moves to March if the budget closes today.
Action items
- Send the budget to finance · Lucía, Friday
- Book the Osaka venue · Ken
Decisions
Keep the Osaka venue for the launch.
Travel
Talk face to face, both ways.
Ask for directions, order dinner or meet family. Each of you reads the other, in your own language.
Face to face
Lay your phone on the table. Their half faces them in their language; yours faces you in yours. Tap Done to go back to the reader.
Platforms
Wherever the conversation is.
Start on your phone, follow on your laptop, and pick up on any device.
iPhone
Live captions on the Lock Screen, in the Dynamic Island and in StandBy. Start listening from Control Center, the Action button or Siri.
Android
The same reader, with Both ways, Face to face and captions on the lock screen while you listen.
The web
Sign in at hontoni.app to start a conversation in any browser, add a recording, or follow one live.
Every device, one account
Sign in once. Your conversations follow you, and you can follow a live one from another device.
How it works
Three steps, then just listen.
Choose your languages
Pick the language you read in. Hontoni detects the language being spoken, or you can choose it.
Tap Listen
Hontoni starts writing from the first word. Pause any time, and end the conversation when you’re done.
Read, listen and share
Follow along, hear it in your earphones, then keep the transcript and notes, or share them.
Languages
Your language, throughout.
Hontoni hears 60 languages, detects which one is spoken, and translates into any of them. The app and this site speak 20.
- English
- 日本語
- Español
- Português (Brasil)
- Français
- Deutsch
- Italiano
- 한국어
- 简体中文
- 繁體中文
- Tiếng Việt
- ไทย
- Bahasa Indonesia
- हिन्दी
- العربية
- Русский
- Türkçe
- Nederlands
- Polski
- Українська
All 60 languages
- Afrikaans
- Albanian
- Arabic
- Azerbaijani
- Bangla
- Basque
- Belarusian
- Bosnian
- Bulgarian
- Catalan
- Chinese
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- Estonian
- Filipino
- Finnish
- French
- Galician
- German
- Greek
- Gujarati
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Hungarian
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Kannada
- Kazakh
- Korean
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Macedonian
- Malay
- Malayalam
- Marathi
- Norwegian
- Persian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Punjabi
- Romanian
- Russian
- Serbian
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Spanish
- Swahili
- Swedish
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Thai
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Urdu
- Vietnamese
- Welsh
Privacy
Calm about your data.
Listening only when you ask
The microphone is used only while a conversation is running. What’s said goes to a speech recognition service to become text.
Yours to keep or delete
As a guest, conversations stay on your phone. Signed in, they’re kept in your account. Delete any of them at any time.
Nothing shared unless you share it
Live sharing is off until you turn it on, and you choose who can follow: anyone with the link, a secret link, a passcode or invited people.
Pricing is coming soon
Try Hontoni free.
Create an account and your first hour is on us, on all your devices. A friend who creates an account with your link gets an hour on top of their own, and once they have listened for ten minutes, you get an hour too, for up to three friends. Plans and hour packs are coming soon, and we’ll tell you before anything changes.
- 60 minutes
- free when you create an account, shared across your devices
- +60 minutes
- for each friend you invite, and the same for you once they have listened for ten minutes, for up to three friends
- 10 minutes
- as a guest, with no account
- All features
- live translation, notes, the voice and live sharing
Is Hontoni free?
To start, yes: an hour when you create an account, or 10 minutes as a guest. A friend who creates an account with your link gets an hour on top of their own, and once they have listened for ten minutes, you get an hour too, for up to three friends. Plans and hour packs are coming soon.
Which devices does it work on?
iPhone, including the Lock Screen, the Dynamic Island and StandBy; Android phones and foldables; and the web at hontoni.app. Sign in once and your conversations follow you.
Can I follow on my laptop while my phone listens?
Yes. Signed in, the conversation shows as Live now on hontoni.app, and the words arrive as they’re said.
Can other people follow a conversation live?
Yes, when you share it: anyone with the link, a secret link, a passcode or invited people, with a QR code for the room.
Can I use it to learn a language?
Read the original and the translation side by side, line by line, for live conversations, YouTube videos and recordings.
Does it work with videos and recordings?
Yes. Add a YouTube link, a video, a voice note, a file or a link, and read it or listen to it in your language.
Where does the audio go?
To a speech recognition service that turns it into text. You choose whether the audio of live conversations is kept.
Which languages?
Hontoni hears and translates 60 languages. The app and this site are in 20.
Notes on transcription, translation and being understood.
Careful, sourced writing about turning speech into text, following a conversation in your own language, and where that work is still hard.
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Follow conversations in your language. Start with an hour free. No card needed.
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