Speaker (French)
Bonjour, votre présentation de ce matin était vraiment intéressante.
Guten Tag, Ihre Präsentation heute Morgen war wirklich interessant.
Bonjour Hallo
Live translation
French ↔ German
through one pair of earbuds.
Share an earbud. Pick French and German. Each of you hears the other in your own language, live.
A sample exchange
Three turns between French and German, the way they'd actually go. Each card shows the original line above the translation.
Speaker (German)
Vielen Dank. Arbeiten Sie auch in der Automobilbranche?
Merci beaucoup. Vous travaillez aussi dans l'automobile ?
Speaker (French)
Oui, côté fournisseurs. On pourrait continuer au déjeuner ?
Ja, auf der Zuliefererseite. Könnten wir beim Mittagessen weiterreden?
What metcha supports for this pair
| French | German | |
|---|---|---|
| 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
France and Germany are each other's largest trading partners and the institutional core of the EU, with Strasbourg and bilingual Alsace sitting right on the seam. The two languages share little vocabulary but both keep a strict formal register, vous and Sie, that a translation has to respect in a professional setting. Most tools pivot this pair through English; metcha's Better Translation path on metcha Plus translates French to German directly with conversational context.
Common phrases
Hand-picked phrases for everyday German-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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French: Bonjour, enchanté.
German: Guten Tag, freut mich.
- Thank you
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French: Merci beaucoup.
German: Vielen Dank.
- Apology
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French: Désolé, je n'ai pas compris.
German: Entschuldigung, das habe ich nicht verstanden.
- Directions
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French: Où se trouve la gare centrale ?
German: Wo ist der Hauptbahnhof?
- Ordering
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French: Je vais prendre le plat du jour.
German: Ich nehme das Tagesgericht.
- Allergy
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French: Je suis allergique aux noix.
German: Ich bin allergisch gegen Nüsse.
- Bill
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French: L'addition, s'il vous plaît.
German: Die Rechnung, bitte.
- Hotel
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French: J'ai une réservation au nom de [nom].
German: Ich habe eine Reservierung auf den Namen [Name].
- Pharmacy
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French: Avez-vous quelque chose contre le rhume ?
German: Haben Sie etwas gegen Erkältung?
- Wifi
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French: Quel est le mot de passe du wifi ?
German: Wie lautet das WLAN-Passwort?
Where you'd use it
- Conferences and trade fairs from Paris to Frankfurt For conferences →
- Cross-border life in Alsace and along the Rhine
- German visitors in Paris and French visitors in Berlin See the Paris guide →
- Franco-German business teams and EU institutional work
Common questions
- Does metcha translate German to French as well as French to German?
- Yes, both directions run in the same session. When someone speaks French, the other person hears it in German; when they reply in German, you hear it in French. There is no direction to configure and no turn-taking button. See how it works for the full walkthrough.
- Is French ↔ German translation in metcha on-device or cloud?
- Both. metcha's free tier uses Apple's on-device Translation framework where supported (available for both French and German). 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 French and German?
- 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 German?
- metcha's Deepgram STT path handles major regional variants of German 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 German?
- 4 curated native-German 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.