We launched Accent Conversion for meetings back in March. People loved it, but we kept hearing the same request: "Can I use this on YouTube?"
So we went and looked. Pick any popular lecture by a non-native English speaker and scroll to the comments. It's always the same: "Can't understand what he's saying." "Had to watch at 0.75x." "Captions are completely wrong."
Millions of views. Brilliant speakers. Huge chunk of the audience rewinding or just leaving.
That felt wrong. The content is right there. The only thing in the way is accent clarity. So we packaged our on-device AI into a free Chrome extension.
Open a YouTube video, toggle it on, speech gets clearer. That's it.
@asti_pili I've been using Krisp for noise cancellation on calls for a while. Didn't know they had accent tech too. The YouTube extension is a nice way to try it
@asti_pili Congrats on the launch! This is exactly what YouTube needed, finally being able to actually understand brilliant non-native speakers without rewinding every 10 seconds.
Does the accent converter also work well on videos that have background music or sound effects?
thanks, Olia! 😊 It should help cut out some background noise like music or chatter. Give it a try and let us know how it goes for you!
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@asti_pili This is interesting, but isnt this realtime conversion adding latency and also expensive ? How is it free?
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@asti_pili Huge congrats! this feature is gold.. just a quick question - example, english has a different accent for a person from south part of India and north part of India, same applies for china, latin america, japan, german... how good is this for such nuanced accent change?
Also, can it translate local slangs.. eg: the words may belong to english but have a different meaning over a different geography.. like trainers in US (coach) vs UK (footwears)..
@hrant_sedrakyan2 Thanks! It support wide range of accents but works the best with Indian, Filipino, Latin American, African, and Chinese-Mandarin accents
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So freaking useful! Do you see accent conversion becoming as standard as captions or playback speed on video platforms or maybe youtube will add this feature itself??
Most tools focus on captions, but real-time accent normalization in audio addresses a different problem! Curious how it handles heavily accented technical content like coding tutorials or medical lectures where vocabulary matters as much as clarity. Congrats on the launch, team Krisp!
Heheh! Need this. As a non-native english speaker we constantly deal with it and I'm sure many founders gonna feel the same Asti! Wish you all the best here
@tetiana_n it keeps the voice, might slightly impact the emotion but we are tuning to find the perfect balance of accent conversion and complete voice+tone preservation.
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Hey PH!
We launched Accent Conversion for meetings back in March. People loved it, but we kept hearing the same request: "Can I use this on YouTube?"
So we went and looked. Pick any popular lecture by a non-native English speaker and scroll to the comments. It's always the same: "Can't understand what he's saying." "Had to watch at 0.75x." "Captions are completely wrong."
Millions of views. Brilliant speakers. Huge chunk of the audience rewinding or just leaving.
That felt wrong. The content is right there. The only thing in the way is accent clarity. So we packaged our on-device AI into a free Chrome extension.
Open a YouTube video, toggle it on, speech gets clearer. That's it.
Ask me anything, I'm here all day.
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@asti_pili I've been using Krisp for noise cancellation on calls for a while. Didn't know they had accent tech too. The YouTube extension is a nice way to try it
Krisp
@maria_anosova Yeah, unlike our app for meetings this one takes just a second to try out for real.
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@asti_pili Congrats on the launch! This is exactly what YouTube needed, finally being able to actually understand brilliant non-native speakers without rewinding every 10 seconds.
Does the accent converter also work well on videos that have background music or sound effects?
Krisp
thanks, Olia! 😊 It should help cut out some background noise like music or chatter. Give it a try and let us know how it goes for you!
@asti_pili This is interesting, but isnt this realtime conversion adding latency and also expensive ? How is it free?
@asti_pili Huge congrats! this feature is gold.. just a quick question - example, english has a different accent for a person from south part of India and north part of India, same applies for china, latin america, japan, german... how good is this for such nuanced accent change?
Also, can it translate local slangs.. eg: the words may belong to english but have a different meaning over a different geography.. like trainers in US (coach) vs UK (footwears)..
Great job Krisp team! This is a life-saver 🤌
btw, what accents does it support?
Krisp
@hrant_sedrakyan2 Thanks!
It support wide range of accents but works the best with Indian, Filipino, Latin American, African, and Chinese-Mandarin accents
So freaking useful! Do you see accent conversion becoming as standard as captions or playback speed on video platforms or maybe youtube will add this feature itself??
Krisp
@lak7 I won't lie that is a possibility :) they already added auto translation
Krisp
We built it for builders like us 🎉 Everyone I know who watches Vibe coding tutorials needs to try this.
Krisp
@eduard_hambardzumyan it used to be just for coding videos :D now it's vibe coding videos all day
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Most tools focus on captions, but real-time accent normalization in audio addresses a different problem! Curious how it handles heavily accented technical content like coding tutorials or medical lectures where vocabulary matters as much as clarity. Congrats on the launch, team Krisp!
Krisp
@jasonhowie yeah, give it a spin - it's really easy to setup from chrome extension store
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Heheh! Need this. As a non-native english speaker we constantly deal with it and I'm sure many founders gonna feel the same Asti! Wish you all the best here
Krisp
@german_merlo1 Thanks 🙌
My mom watches English-language YouTube content all day and always struggles with accents. Thanks for this <3
Krisp
@new_user___1032026e2bb68087ace6f23 my favorite use case is Scottish english content. Usually great stuff that I understand 10-15%
Does it affect the voice (changes it, or maybe makes it robotic)?
Krisp
@tetiana_n it keeps the voice, might slightly impact the emotion but we are tuning to find the perfect balance of accent conversion and complete voice+tone preservation.
@asti_pili I see, thanks for answering!
Cool !! I usually spend half of my time on technical tutorials trying to decipher specific terms that get lost in translation or heavy accents.
Does this handle real time processing well enough ? there is no weird audio lag with the video ? if the sync is tight , this is very useful .
Krisp
@farhan_nazir55 no lag, truly real-time. the latency is under 200ms which is unnoticeable to human ear
How is this different from auto-captions? Is it actually changing the audio?
Krisp
@eduard_harutyunyan1 Yes, it changes the audio in real time to neutral American English