Show HN: Connecting Captions Local Private AI Interpreter

Hi HN,I built Connecting Captions, a live captioning and translation overlay for macOS that runs entirely on-device. Nothing goes over the network: no API calls, no audio leaving your machine, and it keeps working offline.I wanted live translation I could use in meetings and conversations without worrying about connectivity, latency spikes, or sending sensitive audio to a third party.The technically interesting part is a low-latency, self-correcting pipeline for speech-to-text and translation. It has two modes:Sentence mode: buffers until a sentence boundary, then translates with full context. It’s more accurate, especially between languages with different word order.
Streaming mode: translates word by word as speech arrives, trading grammatical accuracy for minimal delay.Current state:Platform: macOS
Models: Whisper
Latency: ~200 ms
Languages: 25Code: https://github.com/chrisswimlee/connectingCaptionsI’d love feedback, especially on the self-correction approach and which use cases matter most to people.

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