Speaker (Croatian)
Dobar dan! Jeste li za kavu ili nešto hladno?
Bonjour ! Vous prendrez un café ou quelque chose de frais ?
Bok Bonjour
Live translation
Croatian ↔ French
through one pair of earbuds.
Share an earbud. Pick Croatian and French. Each of you hears the other in your own language, live.
A sample exchange
Three turns between Croatian and French, the way they'd actually go. Each card shows the original line above the translation.
Speaker (French)
Un café au lait, s'il vous plaît — et un verre d'eau.
Bijelu kavu, molim vas — i čašu vode.
Speaker (Croatian)
Odmah stiže. Upravo se oslobodio stol na terasi, izvolite.
Tout de suite. Une table vient de se libérer en terrasse, je vous en prie.
What metcha supports for this pair
| Croatian | French | |
|---|---|---|
| Apple on-device translation | — | ✓ |
| Deepgram cloud STT | ✓ | ✓ |
| iOS built-in voices | ✓ | ✓ |
| ElevenLabs premium voices (Plus) | 4 voices | 4 voices |
| Voice cloning (Plus, your voice) | ✓ | ✓ |
Why metcha for this pair
Croatian and French both draw a real formal/informal line — vous and tu on one side, Vi and ti on the other — and metcha's Better Translation keeps the register you actually mean instead of flattening everyone to the same tone. The pair itself runs on tourism in both directions: French visitors have discovered Dubrovnik and the Dalmatian islands in force over the last decade, and Paris has never left the Croatian itinerary.
Common phrases
Hand-picked phrases for everyday French-speaking situations. In metcha you don't need to memorize these — but they're useful to anchor what the app sounds like before you try it.
- Greeting
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Croatian: Dobar dan, drago mi je.
French: Bonjour, enchanté.
- Thank you
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Croatian: Puno vam hvala.
French: Merci beaucoup.
- Apology
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Croatian: Oprostite, ne razumijem.
French: Désolé, je ne comprends pas.
- Directions
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Croatian: Gdje su gradske zidine?
French: Où sont les remparts ?
- Café
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Croatian: Jednu kavu, molim.
French: Un café, s'il vous plaît.
- Ordering
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Croatian: Što nam preporučujete?
French: Qu'est-ce que vous recommandez ?
- Bill
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Croatian: Račun, molim vas.
French: L'addition, s'il vous plaît.
- Taxi
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Croatian: Do zračne luke, molim.
French: À l'aéroport, s'il vous plaît.
- Hotel
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Croatian: Imam rezervaciju.
French: J'ai une réservation.
- Help
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Croatian: Možete li mi pomoći?
French: Pouvez-vous m'aider ?
Where you'd use it
- French travelers on the Dubrovnik walls and the Dalmatian islands
- Croatian visitors in Paris See the Paris guide →
- EU business between Zagreb and French teams
- Cafés on the riva greeting French-speaking guests For cafés →
Common questions
- Does metcha translate French to Croatian as well as Croatian to French?
- Yes, both directions run in the same session. When someone speaks Croatian, the other person hears it in French; when they reply in French, you hear it in Croatian. There is no direction to configure and no turn-taking button. See how it works for the full walkthrough.
- Is Croatian ↔ French translation in metcha on-device or cloud?
- Both. metcha's free tier uses Apple's on-device Translation framework where supported (partial — one side may route via the cloud path). metcha Plus optionally routes through a Better Translation cloud path for more natural phrasing, with a quiet fallback to the on-device path when the network is slow.
- Do I need both AirPods to use metcha for Croatian and French?
- No. The simplest mode is one earbud each — you keep one, the other person keeps the other. metcha handles both directions through that single shared pair. If you'd rather both wear your own earbuds, you can pair a second phone in seconds via a QR code (still no app install for the other person).
- What about regional accents within French?
- metcha's Deepgram STT path handles major regional variants of French robustly. The on-device path is more sensitive to accent — if you find the free path missing words, switching to the metcha Plus cloud STT usually fixes it without changing anything else about the conversation.
- Does it work without internet?
- The free on-device path works fully offline once the relevant Apple Translation language packs are downloaded. metcha Plus features that depend on Deepgram, Better Translation, or ElevenLabs voices need a network connection.
- How many voices does metcha ship for French?
- 4 curated native-French voices on metcha Plus, plus all iOS built-in voices on the free tier (and any Enhanced or Premium voices you've installed in Settings → Accessibility → Spoken Content).
- Are conversations private?
- metcha does not store conversations on our servers, and none of our providers retain audio for training. The free on-device path never sends audio off your phone at all. See the privacy policy for the full data-handling story.