Verli

Verli translates and transcribes live audio from any tab, window or screen your computer plays, covering meetings, streams and lectures. It supports over 60 languages in both directions with automatic speaker language detection, runs in a browser or as a macOS and Windows app, and requires no meeting bot or installs from other participants.

Verli is a live translation and transcription tool that listens to the audio your own computer is already playing and renders it as readable text in a second language, as the words are spoken. The capture method is the defining feature: instead of joining a call as a bot, Verli takes the audio from a shared browser tab, a shared window, or system audio on desktop. Nothing needs to be installed by the other participants, and no participant list ever shows an extra guest. That makes it usable on calls where an outside bot is not welcome or not technically possible. In practice the workflow is short. A user shares a tab, window or screen that carries audio, picks two languages, and watches the transcript and translation appear in real time. Verli detects each speaker's language automatically, so a conversation can move between languages without anyone changing a setting mid-sentence. When translated speech is played aloud in the macOS and Windows apps, each speaker keeps a consistent voice and an appropriate gender, which helps listeners track who is talking. A compact window mode keeps the current translation and recording controls floating above other applications. The tool targets two fairly different audiences. Work teams use it for Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams sessions, where paid plans allow a live transcript link that colleagues can open on their own devices, plus custom context and terminology to improve accuracy on domain-specific vocabulary. Individuals use it for foreign YouTube streams, podcasts, lectures and phone calls routed through their speakers. Over 60 languages are supported in both directions, from Afrikaans to Welsh. Verli occupies a narrow but useful niche. It is not a meeting recorder or a note-taking assistant, and it does not transcribe uploaded recordings after the fact. It competes with caption features baked into conferencing platforms, which typically cover fewer language pairs and rarely handle arbitrary audio. The absence of meeting bots and the no-audio-recording policy are the strongest arguments for privacy-conscious buyers. Anyone who needs translated captions on material that is not a video call, or who wants a translated transcript of a call without inviting a bot, gets the clearest value here.