For international business
Suppliers, partners and clients who do not work in your language
The supplier call, the partner review, the client check-in. Conversations that happen weekly, in a language somebody in the room is guessing at, because arranging an interpreter for a recurring 30-minute meeting was never realistic.
Email is not the bottleneck. The call you keep not having is.
Written translation is solved and free, so cross-border work has quietly reorganized itself around email and documents — not because that is better, but because the live conversation is the expensive part. The result is decisions that take three days of asynchronous clarification instead of six minutes of talking.
How it fits
01
No lead time, because there is nobody to book
A supplier raises a problem on Tuesday and you talk about it on Tuesday. They join from one link in their browser, with no account and no software to get approved by their IT department.
02
Recurring meetings stop being a budget line
Metering runs only while translation runs, so a weekly standup where most of the time is screen sharing costs a fraction of what its calendar length suggests. There is no subscription and credits do not expire.
03
Calls, video, and text in the same place
Voice calls, video meetings with subtitles, translated text chat rooms for the follow-up, and in-person live translation on a single device when you are actually in the room together.
04
One hub, many counterparties
Your organization is isolated from every other on the platform, and each call link dies when the call ends — so a link shared with one supplier is not a standing door.
Honest limits
What this is not
For contract negotiation where register and nuance are carrying the deal, or for anything that will be signed on the strength of what was said in the room, a professional interpreter is still the right call. MAIK Voice translates what it hears; it does not notice that a phrase landed badly and stop to fix it. Use it for the operational conversation, not for the moment the deal turns.
The full cost comparison against a professional interpreter, with the assumptions shown, is on the comparison page.
FAQ
Questions
- What does the person on the other end have to do?
- Open a link. Calls run entirely in the browser — no account, no download, no app for their IT department to approve. This is usually the reason a tool like this gets used at all.
- How is this priced for a recurring meeting?
- Translation is metered at 14¢ per translated minute on the Standard voice tier, and you are charged only for minutes in which translation actually ran. Silence, reading and screen sharing are free. It is pay-as-you-go credit — no subscription and no expiry.
- Can we use it in person, not just on a call?
- Yes. There is an in-person mode where you hold a button per language and talk face to face on a single phone or tablet, which is what a site visit or a factory floor conversation actually looks like.
- Which languages does it cover?
- The languages page lists exactly what is live today, read from the running system rather than from a marketing list, so it can never over-state what you will actually get.
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