Hey everyone! Eduardo here
First off: WOW.
It's been 2 days since we launched Seagull on Product Hunt and the response has been incredible. We're genuinely blown away by the support, the upvotes, and especially the thoughtful feedback you've all shared.
Thank you.
While you've been busy breaking down language barriers with real-time subtitles, we've been building something we're really excited about: Conversation Mode .
Here's the idea: instead of just translating what you hear, imagine sitting across from someone who speaks a completely different language and having a fluid, natural conversation.
Seagull listens to both of you, figures out who's speaking and in what language, and shows each person the translation in real time. Up to 4 languages, simultaneously, in a clean split-screen grid.
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@wardoatelier I was number 48 to join the Discord, how do you get the free plan?
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@dwjoelle Hi Destiny,
I sent you a DM on Discord with the gift code. Thanks for supporting Seagull!
@wardoatelier This is awesome. I just joined the Discord and think i was #50? ◡̈ I'm looking forward to testing this out!
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Hello Eduardo,
did you implement any kind of human feedback? Like if the user would correct something and your system learn about it?
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@agraciag We've not implemented anything like that as of now, but we have that on our roadmap for this week's release!
Especially for slang and dialects, it might be hard for the translation system to pick everything up right away. We will add human training.
@wardoatelier Thanks for your response, good luck and I will be paying attention to anything you would like to share about your experience with human training, it is going to be a challenge!
Congrats on the launch! I'm curious how do you capture audio on Mac, Windows, and Linux? Is it the same lib that supports all of them or different for each OS?
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@rmilyushkevich Hi Roman!
We deliberately chose a stack that was fast to iterate on and could give us multi-platform support fast, so we're using one library for everything, and that's electron-audio-loopback.
Love that this was born from a real personal need. The bilingual household use case really resonates — my partner and I deal with this exact problem watching shows together. The fact that it works as a system-level overlay across all apps is what sets it apart from the clunky subtitle tools out there.
@letian_wang3 Hi Letian! Thanks for the comment! Yes, the idea of Seagull comes from our own experience, and we have been using it ourselves before the launch. We will also launch the conversation mode very soon, so the in-person conversation across languages will be easy too!
This is very cool. Is Swedish supported?
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@jenny_karlsson1 Hi Jenny, yes, we support Swedish!
Great that it works on a system level, congrats on the launch!
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@cohenco Thanks for the comment, Cohen!
It works for all audio input, and it also overlays on top of games and fullscreen video.
Let me know if you want to try it out, and I'll send you a monthly gift code. 🐦