Video meetings

Meetings where everyone speaks their own language

Video meetings for up to 8 people. Each person picks one of 32 languages and hears the others in it, with subtitles and a natural voice, about 1–2 seconds after each sentence. In the app or in any browser.

The app's Meetings tab: translation minutes, New meeting, Schedule and Join, and upcoming meetings with Join and Invite
A meeting in the Sponkly app: four people speaking English, German, Japanese and Spanish, with a translated subtitle

Live voice translation and subtitles

Talk normally and finish your sentence. The others read it as a subtitle with your name and hear it in their language, in the voice you chose. Translation works sentence by sentence, not word by word.

  • 32 languages; each person chooses their own
  • Set your language and voice once under Profile → Language & voice, and change them in the room
  • Female or male voice and an age range; in the browser also a neutral voice
  • Turn translation off for yourself to hear everyone as they speak
The app's Language & voice screen: female or male voice, an age range and the language you speak
Profile → Language & voice: the language you speak and your voice

Start now, or schedule it

Create a meeting now or for later, with a title, a description and a planned length. Every meeting has a password: one is made for you, or set your own of at least 4 characters. The invite link carries the password, so guests just click it.

  • Invite up to 20 people by email
  • Invitees get a reminder email 15 minutes before
  • An optional waiting room: admit or decline each person (in the browser also everyone at once)
  • Share the link, resend the invitation or close the meeting from Meetings
  • Join with a code and password, or with the link
The app's Create Meeting screen: title, duration, plan limits, password, waiting room and written transcript
Creating a meeting: now or scheduled, password, waiting room and transcript

Run the meeting your way

HD video (720p) that adapts as more people join, and the tools a meeting needs. The host sees everyone in the participants list and can remove someone or end the meeting for everyone.

  • Raise your hand to take a turn
  • Polls for a quick decision
  • Emoji reactions without interrupting
  • The host can remove a participant, who can't rejoin, or end for everyone
  • A banner shows the translation minutes left, and a countdown before the plan's time limit
The participants list in a meeting: three people waiting to join, each with Decline and Admit
The participants list: the host admits or declines people waiting to join

Chat, files and screen sharing

The meeting chat is translated for everyone, so a typed question reaches each person in their language. Share documents and pictures, and show your screen from a browser while the translation keeps running.

  • Chat messages translated into each reader's language
  • Files up to 50 MB each
  • Screen sharing from a browser on a computer
  • Meeting chat and files are deleted after 30 days
The meeting chat in the app: messages translated into English, each with the original underneath
Meeting chat: each message in your language, with the original underneath

Business and Enterprise

Minutes without a minute-taker

Every sentence is written down in the language it was spoken and as each participant heard it. Nobody has to take notes or translate them afterwards.

  • Turn it on when you create the meeting; the host can stop and start it in the room
  • Download as Word or text from the room or from past meetings
  • Who said what, in which language, with every translation
  • Kept for 30 days, with an email a week before they are deleted
A past meeting's Transcript tab in the app: Word and Text buttons, and lines in English, Japanese and German with their translations
Transcript: who said what, with every translation (Business and Enterprise)

In the app or in any browser

Join from the iPhone or Android app, or from a browser on any computer without installing anything. Everyone needs a Sponkly account, which is free: a guest without one is asked to sign in first and then taken back to the meeting.

  • iPhone, Android and every modern browser
  • Move to another device: join there and the first one leaves
  • Join with the microphone or camera off, if you like
  • Reminder and waiting-room emails under Notifications & meetings
The app's Meetings tab: translation minutes, New meeting, Schedule and Join, and upcoming meetings with Join and Invite
The Meetings tab: start, schedule or join, and invite people

Meetings you control

Meetings are encrypted in transit and translated on Sponkly's servers, so people in a browser can join.

A password on every meeting

Made for you or chosen by you, and carried in the invite link.

Waiting room

Guests wait until you admit them, one by one or all at once.

Encrypted connections

HTTPS/TLS for the site, DTLS-SRTP for audio and video. Speech is not stored after it is translated.

Your account, protected

Two-factor sign-in, the list of your active devices and sign out everywhere.

People, length and meetings by plan

Every plan can hold meetings. Plans differ in how many people join, how long a meeting lasts and how many you create a month.

The host's translation minutes

Translation uses the host's minutes: one minute of speech translated into one language is one minute. When they run out, translation pauses and video and audio go on.

Only time together counts

A meeting's length counts only the time with two or more people in the room, so you can come back to it later.

Open until you close it

A meeting stays open until the host closes it, or for up to 7 days. It counts toward the month's meetings when it is created.

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The same plans as on the Pricing page.