Introduction
Welcome to Pinch, a real-time speech technology lab advancing the state of speech-to-speech translation.
Pinch builds systems that translate spoken language, with a focus on low latency, natural prosody, and preservation of speaker identity. Our work spans cutting edge speech modeling alongside capabilities developers can use today.
Pinch integrates across applications, workflows, and pipelines through Pinch Desktop, the Pinch Python SDK, and the Pinch API. These interfaces support live and file-based translation, multilingual audio processing, and voice preserving output across 50+ languages.
At the core of Pinch is a deep focus on how speech works. We explore modern speech architectures and actively develop models that operate in latent audio space to better preserve timing, tone, emotion, and speaker characteristics - capabilities that traditional text based systems struggle to maintain.
Whether you’re building real-time voice experiences, multilingual media workflows, or experimenting with next-generation speech models, Pinch offers a foundation designed for natural, expressive, and production-ready speech translation.
Where Pinch fits best
Pinch is a good fit when you want live voice translation to be seamless and invisible.
Real-time interpretation
- live interpretation for calls, meetings, classrooms, or events
- bilingual conversations where people want audio output immediately
Prototyping & research
- quickly test a speech-to-speech translation experience end-to-end
- build experiments on top of a working real-time translation layer
Multilingual voice experiences
- voice agents that can respond in another language
- interactive demos where users speak in one language and hear another
Translation inside apps
- add voice translation to a mobile/desktop app
- onboarding flows, guided experiences, support tools, or accessibility features
Keep the same speaker
- translations that preserve speaker identity
- products where tone and voice continuity actually matter