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> Would anyone else here have a need for a real-time translation video chat app?

I have to question if this is an actual post, because asking if a real-time video translator that works well would be useful to other people seems bizarre.

The answer is yes, that's a great product, if it work well.

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For sure, but when you say "works well" what would that look like to you? There might be some sacrifices on the video-chat side (this app wouldn't compete with Zoom, for example, on video quality or latency), but the focus would be on audio, translation, and transcription quality.

From chatting with friends, it works well even for long sentences, but the latency can vary between 3 - 7 seconds. So I wanted to understand how much delay would be tolerated by most people who would be interested in using this.

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