When we started building PolyTalk, privacy wasn't the problem we were trying to solve.
Language was.
The idea was simple: make conversations between people speaking different languages feel natural and effortless.
Like most people working on translation technology, we were focused on things like speed, accuracy, and user experience. We wanted translations to happen in real time and feel almost invisible to the people using them.
But as we talked to more potential users, a different question kept coming up.
