Speaker (French)
Bonjour, qu'est-ce que vous me conseillez pour le petit-déjeuner ?
Hola, ¿qué me recomienda para desayunar?
Bonjour Hola
Live translation
French ↔ Spanish
through one pair of earbuds.
Share an earbud. Pick French and Spanish. Each of you hears the other in your own language, live.
A sample exchange
Three turns between French and Spanish, the way they'd actually go. Each card shows the original line above the translation.
Speaker (Spanish)
Pan con tomate y un café con leche, es lo clásico de aquí.
Le pain à la tomate et un café au lait, c'est le classique d'ici.
Speaker (French)
Parfait, je prends ça. Merci beaucoup.
Perfecto, tomaré eso. Muchas gracias.
What metcha supports for this pair
| French | Spanish | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Spain are direct neighbors with one of the busiest two-way tourist flows in Europe: French visitors fill Barcelona and the Costa Brava, and Spanish travelers return the favor in Paris. The languages are close Romance cousins, which helps right up until it does not, the French verb subir means to undergo while the Spanish subir means to go up. Most translation tools treat non-English pairs as second-class and pivot through English; metcha's Better Translation path on metcha Plus translates French to Spanish directly and keeps the vous/usted register consistent.
Common phrases
Hand-picked phrases for everyday Spanish-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.
Spanish: Hola, encantado.
- Thank you
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French: Merci beaucoup.
Spanish: Muchas gracias.
- Apology
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French: Désolé, je n'ai pas compris.
Spanish: Perdón, no he entendido.
- Directions
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French: Où est la station de métro la plus proche ?
Spanish: ¿Dónde está la estación de metro más cercana?
- Ordering
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French: Je vais prendre le menu du jour.
Spanish: Tomaré el menú del día.
- Allergy
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French: Je suis allergique aux fruits de mer.
Spanish: Soy alérgico al marisco.
- Bill
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French: L'addition, s'il vous plaît.
Spanish: La cuenta, por favor.
- Hotel
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French: J'ai une réservation au nom de [nom].
Spanish: Tengo una reserva a nombre de [nombre].
- Pharmacy
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French: Avez-vous quelque chose contre le mal de tête ?
Spanish: ¿Tienen algo para el dolor de cabeza?
- Taxi
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French: Pouvez-vous me déposer à cette adresse ?
Spanish: ¿Puede llevarme a esta dirección?
Where you'd use it
- French visitors in Barcelona and along the Costa Brava See the Barcelona guide →
- Spanish travelers spending a long weekend in Paris See the Paris guide →
- Cross-border day trips between the Basque coast and Catalonia
- Hospitality teams on either side of the Pyrenees serving the other country's guests
Common questions
- Does metcha translate Spanish to French as well as French to Spanish?
- Yes, both directions run in the same session. When someone speaks French, the other person hears it in Spanish; when they reply in Spanish, 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 ↔ Spanish 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 Spanish). 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 Spanish?
- 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 Spanish?
- metcha's Deepgram STT path handles major regional variants of Spanish 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 Spanish?
- 4 curated native-Spanish 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.