Split Speak

Split Speak helps two people have natural face-to-face conversations across languages using a simple table-friendly split-screen layout.

Place your iPhone or iPad between two people, choose a language for each side, and tap to speak. Each person sees their own side of the screen upright, making it easy to follow the conversation across a table.

On iPad, a three-column layout gives each person their own scrollable conversation history alongside the live translation, so you can always see what's been said.

DESIGNED FOR REAL CONVERSATIONS
• Split-screen interface for two people sitting opposite each other
• Real-time speech recognition while you talk
• On-device translation for privacy
• Spoken playback of translated text
• Conversation history for quick reference

TWO TRANSLATION MODES

Recommended Quality
For the best Split Speak experience, Recommended Quality provides more natural and more context-aware translations when available on your device.

• Better phrasing for natural conversation
• Better context understanding
• Best for longer or more nuanced speech
• Runs on-device for privacy
• Available after a one-time Apple Intelligence setup

Standard Quality
Standard Quality works right away with no extra setup.

• Ready immediately
• Reliable for everyday translation
• Great fallback while Recommended Quality is being enabled
• Runs on-device for privacy

ONE-TIME SETUP FOR RECOMMENDED QUALITY
Recommended Quality may require Apple Intelligence to be enabled in Settings and an on-device model download. Split Speak clearly explains this in onboarding and settings.

KEY FEATURES
• Real-time translation for face-to-face conversations
• Table-mode split-screen design
• iPad three-column layout with live conversation history
• 20 supported languages
• Adjustable speech playback speed
• Auto-speak options for each side
• Conversation history with search
• Light, dark, and system appearance options
• Haptic feedback
• On-device processing for privacy

GREAT FOR
• Travel conversations
• International meetings
• Restaurants and shopping abroad
• Cross-language family conversations
• Language practice
• Everyday communication on the go

SUPPORTED LANGUAGES
Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Dutch, English (US), English (UK), French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.

PRIVACY FIRST
Speech recognition, translation, and text-to-speech are handled on-device. Your conversations are not sent to external servers.