Invite-only pilot · 100 minutes to start
You call and speak Polish, same as always. The other side answers an ordinary phone, installs nothing, and hears your words in German.
This page describes the Polish–German pilot; English UI is available.
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The app is not on Google Play, so you install it from a file. Your phone will ask you to allow the browser you download with.
On first launch you enter the code, choose the language pair and make a call.
Set up your own voice on your phone and hear how it sounds in translation.
In “My voice”, record 30–60 seconds of your own speech in a quiet place, or choose a file from your phone.
Check the recording first. Once the voice is created, listen to a translated sample before selecting it.
Choose “Use my voice”. The app sets Fast mode, and the other person hears the translation of your words in your selected voice.
This feature requires your consent. You can delete the created voice in the app at any time.
Who it is for
Palabra Live was built for people who live, work or run a business in a country whose language they do not speak comfortably on the phone.
Public office, clinic, bank, insurer, landlord. You call yourself, whenever it suits you — without asking friends for help and without waiting for an interpreter slot.
Pair Ukrainian with Polish or with German, both ways. The same app works at the office, at your child's school and in a conversation with your employer.
Workshop, office, practice, building firm. A short call instead of a chain of e-mails and a booked interpreter — and the other person installs nothing and creates no account.
How it works
Three steps. Nothing to set up in advance, nothing to arrange with the other person.
Yours and theirs. One tap swaps the direction without leaving the call screen.
For a phone call, enter the number with its country code. For an in-person talk, one phone on the table is enough.
In person you tap the current speaker and the phone translates in turn. Each person hears the translation in their own language.
You call from the app; the other person answers an ordinary phone call. You need an internet connection on your side. The default announcement explains the translation; in settings, you can choose to tell the other person yourself.
Measured, not promised
These are numbers from our own measurement rig, not rounded slogans. We also name the direction in which we do worse.
How we measure: translation starts mid-sentence (PL→DE) or up to about 1 second after the sentence ends (DE→PL). Measured 5–6 September 2026 on a home network, with a control recording of five sentences played through exactly the same path as a real call. Time to the first sound is counted from the end of the utterance, not from the moment you start speaking. The result depends on the network, on the language pair and on how you speak — so treat these numbers as a reference point, not as a promise for every call.
Invite-only pilot: the access code first, then the APK file.
Six everyday situations where a shared language is usually missing.
You book an appointment and ask about test results — you speak Polish, the doctor hears German. The appointment time and the medicine name appear on screen for you to check.
You handle a case, set a date and ask which documents are missing. The clerk gives the case name and date in German, and you see them written in Polish on screen.
You give an account or policy number, file a complaint, ask about a payout. Numbers and amounts appear on screen for you to check before you confirm them.
You report a repair, ask when it will be fixed, or sort out a rent question. You speak Polish, the landlord hears German, without installing anything.
You talk to a teacher or the school office about progress, an absence or a trip. Agreements and dates appear on screen right after the call.
You ask about a shift schedule, a contract change or your pay, without asking a colleague to translate. Key details — dates, amounts, names — are shown separately on screen.
Comparison
The same task: book an appointment and ask which documents are missing.
Mode 1
You call over the ordinary phone network. The office, doctor, garage or client picks up like on any other call and hears your words translated, spoken by a natural synthetic voice. You hear their reply in your own language.
Incoming calls are not yet generally available in the app. The current caller number cannot be used to call you back in the app.
Mode 2
No number, no call. The phone lies between you and you tap who is speaking. At the doctor, at school, at the office, at work.
Specific things, not promises.
Real screens
Screenshots from version 0.10.0, straight from the phone — nothing is redrawn or polished. The numbers on screen are example numbers.
Call screen
Four things, and that is all. You do not have to hunt through a menu while the clerk is already talking.
Language pair, call duration and estimated cost. You also see whether the translation is currently going out to the other person.
Your sentence and its translation, one under the other — easy to check that it was understood correctly.
The reply in their language and in yours. Numbers and dates are there to read instead of asking for a repeat.
Mute, the number keypad, captions and the red hang-up button — all within thumb's reach.
Privacy and law
See what data a conversation needs and who processes it.
Technical data does remain: a device identifier, the time and length of the call, the languages, the app version, errors and download events. The telephony operator (Twilio) keeps its own call log for 13 months — that is how every phone network works. Translation providers keep requests briefly and only to detect abuse; the retention periods are listed in the privacy policy.
Read the privacy policy → (Polish version binding)
The data controller is DawidWeb. You have the right to access, correct and delete your data, and the right to lodge a complaint with the Polish data protection authority (UODO). Legal bases and retention periods are described in the privacy policy.
Invite-only pilot: the access code first, then the APK file.
These features do not work yet. We describe them honestly so you know what to expect.
Palabra will step through a public office's or hotline's voice menu itself and press the right digits when you tell it to.
Instead of spelling things out, you will type a name or a number on the keyboard and the app will pass it on exactly.
The phone will recognise its own translation audio and won't try to translate it a second time, so you'll be able to talk without headphones.
After the call you will get a short summary: what was agreed, which dates were set and what you have to do next. Today the app only asks whether the matter was settled.
Where this came from
I am a Pole living in Germany. Day to day I work in writing — an e-mail in German I can write calmly, but a phone call to a public office, a clinic or a bank was a brick wall for me.
I put such calls off for weeks or asked someone to call on my behalf. Every time it cost me more nerves than the matter itself.
In the end I built the tool I needed myself: I call and speak Polish, and the other side answers an ordinary phone and hears German. Palabra is in a pilot today — I test it on my own errands and hand it to people who have exactly the same problem.
— Dawid, DawidWeb
Every new “Free start” code includes 100 call minutes for the code's validity period. The app does not show provider prices; DawidWeb manages access and the limit in the panel.
In the current pilot, the other person sees the service owner’s verified number, not yours. Calling that number back does not reach your app. Incoming calls in the app are not yet generally available.
No. Audio is processed as a stream and the translated text disappears when the call ends.
No. Android 8.0 or newer only, for now.
Write to kontakt@dawidweb.com. We send back an access code that you enter the first time you start the app. We reply on working days.
Before downloading an update, you can read what changed. After installation, the app shows “What’s new”, which you can open again in Settings. You can also check for updates there. You confirm installation on your phone.
Polish, German, English and Ukrainian, in any pair.
No. They answer an ordinary phone call and install nothing.
The app translates speech as you talk. Speak in full sentences and spell out names and numbers. Translations can contain mistakes, so confirm important details with the other person.
The wait depends on your internet connection, languages and the length of each utterance. Speak in short, complete sentences and wait for the other person’s reply. The delay can change during a conversation.
Yes, after setting up “My voice”. Record your own sample on the phone or choose an MP3 file, consent to creating the voice and listen to the result. The selected voice speaks the translation of your words to the other person in Fast mode. We send your sample to ElevenLabs; you can delete the voice in the app.
By default, the app plays an announcement about automatic translation. You can turn it off in settings after confirming that you will tell the other person yourself. They should know they are hearing a translation and a synthetic voice.
The file does not come from Google Play. On Android 8.0 and newer permission is granted per source: Settings → Apps → Special access → Install unknown apps → pick the browser you download with and allow it. Google Play Protect may also show its own warning.
In person, yes — you tap the current speaker, so speech and translation do not overlap. On a speakerphone call the microphone may pick up the translation, so use headphones.
Today we translate the menu and you press the keys yourself. Full support for automated phone menus is coming.
Cannot find your question here? Write to kontakt@dawidweb.com — we answer on working days.
The app is in an invite-only pilot. Download the file and write to us for an access code.
You need an access code from DawidWeb to start the app.
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