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MiuWave is a desktop app (built with Tauri) that translates speech in real time. It captures audio straight from your system or microphone, transcribes it and shows the translation in a compact window — with no server in between.

Get started in 5 steps

MiuWave is not released yet — coming soon.

The app's interface is in Vietnamese

Screenshots show the Vietnamese interface. This guide writes on-screen labels exactly as they appear in the app, followed by their English meaning, for example Cài đặt (Settings). Labels that are already English in the app are written as is.

What you can use MiuWave for

  • Translate meetings, videos and podcasts playing on your computer (Zoom, Google Meet, MS Teams, YouTube…), or speech through the microphone.
  • Two-way translation for bilingual meetings: the app detects who is speaking and translates into the other language.
  • Live Caption: large floating subtitles over any video, with click-through.
  • Quick Translate for selected text (F2) and screenshot translation for text in images and slides (F3).
  • AI Companion summarizes, explains and answers questions about what you just heard; Interview mode suggests answers.
  • Read translations aloud (TTS) and keep every session in the Library, with export to .md, .srt and .txt.

5 speech translation engines

Pick the engine that fits your call. Details and how to choose are on Choose an engine.

Recommended · Cloud

Soniox

70+ source languages, translates into any target language, supports two-way translation.

~2 s · ~$0.12/hour Cloud · with voice

OpenAI Realtime

Returns both translated text and translated speech on the same stream. 13 target languages.

~2 s · ~$4/hour Cloud · free preview

Qwen LiveTranslate Flash

60+ source and target languages, returns translated text only. Singapore-region key.

~4 s · free (preview) Offline · Apple Silicon

Local MLX

Runs 100% on your Mac: Japanese, English, Chinese, Korean → Vietnamese or English. One-time install of ~5 GB.

~2 s · free Offline · any CPU

SenseVoice

Recognizes Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean and Cantonese speech on any computer, including Windows and Intel Macs.

original text ~0.5 s · free recognition

Download: pick the right file

Coming soon

MiuWave is not released yet, so there is nothing to download yet. The files below describe the upcoming release.

Once a release is out, download the file that matches your computer (<ver> is the version number):

Mac Apple Silicon

M1, M2, M3, M4

MiuWave_<ver>_aarch64.dmg

Mac Intel

Most Macs from before late 2020

MiuWave_<ver>_x64.dmg

Windows 10/11

Installer

MiuWave_<ver>_x64-setup.exe
Not sure which chip your Mac has?

Open the Apple menu → About This Mac and look at the Chip line: Apple M… → download aarch64, Intel → download x64. The .app.tar.gz, .sig and latest.json files are for the built-in updater; you don't need them. Older releases keep their original file names.

Next: install on macOS or install on Windows.

Privacy

Your audio never passes through a MiuWave server — because MiuWave has no server.

  • The app connects directly to the services you configure yourself, with no middleman.
  • You own your API keys; they are kept in the macOS Keychain or Windows Credential Manager.
  • No account, no telemetry, no analytics.
  • Each session's transcript is saved on your computer.