{"slug": "show-hn-babel-realtime-calls-with-strangers-in-any-language", "title": "Show HN: Babel realtime calls with strangers in any language", "summary": "Babel, a new app launched on Hacker News, pairs users for anonymous voice calls with real-time AI translation, allowing each person to speak and hear in different languages simultaneously. The founder built 85% of the MVP in one shot using frontier models and APIs, with WebRTC debugging as the main challenge.", "body_md": "Babel pairs you with a random stranger for an anonymous voice call. You each pick what you speak and what you want to hear — if they differ, you hear their actual voice quietly, then a real-time AI translation spoken over it. Both directions at once, interpreter-style.\n\nCool because 85% of this was 1-shotted with an MVP with frontier models and APIs. Getting the real time Web-RTC took a bit of debugging, but nothing hardcore.\n\nWhat was literally magic for most of human history is a prompt away.\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48512047](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48512047)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-babel-realtime-calls-with-strangers-in-any-language", "canonical_source": "https://itsbabel.com", "published_at": "2026-06-13 02:28:01+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-13 02:50:03.761817+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "ai-tools", "natural-language-processing", "generative-ai", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Babel", "Hacker News", "WebRTC"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-babel-realtime-calls-with-strangers-in-any-language", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-babel-realtime-calls-with-strangers-in-any-language.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-babel-realtime-calls-with-strangers-in-any-language.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-babel-realtime-calls-with-strangers-in-any-language.jsonld"}}