Webex includes real-time translation, typically as a paid add-on delivered as on-screen captions. That is useful for reading along — but if you want to speak in your language and have the other side hear your voice in theirs, you need two-way voice translation.
Here is how to translate a Webex meeting in real time with Retalk — both directions, 70+ languages, no per-seat add-on, and no bot in the meeting.
How Retalk fits with Webex
Retalk installs as a virtual microphone and speaker on your Mac. Webex simply sees it as an audio device, so there is nothing to enable on your Webex plan and nothing for the other side to install. See how no-bot translation works.
Step 1 — Pick your language pair
Open Retalk, choose the language you speak and the language the other side should hear (70+ supported via Google's Gemini 3.5 Live Translate), then follow the pre-call checklist.
Step 2 — Select the Retalk devices in Webex
In Webex, open Audio settings and set the microphone and speaker to the Retalk virtual devices. Your translated voice flows into the call through the Retalk microphone; the other side returns through the Retalk speaker.
Step 3 — Join and speak normally
Translation runs both ways on separate tracks, preserving each speaker's tone and pace with sub-second latency. Live captions are there as a backup for names and technical terms.
Quality and privacy
Because it is speech-to-speech, the output sounds like a voice rather than a flat machine read, and transcripts stay on the desktop app. Weighing options across platforms? See the 2026 tools guide.
Download Retalk for Mac to translate your next Webex call.
