Speaker (Italian)
Buonasera, benvenuti. Volete vedere il menù o preferite un consiglio?
Buenas noches, bienvenidos. ¿Quieren ver la carta o prefieren una recomendación?
Ciao Hola
Live translation
Italian ↔ Spanish
through one pair of earbuds.
Share an earbud. Pick Italian and Spanish. Each of you hears the other in your own language, live.
A sample exchange
Three turns between Italian and Spanish, the way they'd actually go. Each card shows the original line above the translation.
Speaker (Spanish)
Una recomendación, gracias. ¿Cuál es el primer plato más típico?
Un consiglio, grazie. Qual è il primo più tipico?
Speaker (Italian)
La carbonara, senza dubbio. Qui la facciamo come si deve.
La carbonara, sin duda. Aquí la hacemos como es debido.
What metcha supports for this pair
| Italian | 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
Italian and Spanish are sibling Romance languages, close enough that speakers often half-understand each other, and that is exactly where the trouble starts: burro is butter in Italian and a donkey in Spanish. The closeness also hides register slips, since Italian Lei and Spanish usted do not map onto each other word for word. Most tools pivot this pair through English; metcha's Better Translation path on metcha Plus translates directly between the two and catches the false friends a literal system lets through.
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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Italian: Buongiorno, piacere.
Spanish: Buenos días, encantado.
- Thank you
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Italian: Grazie mille.
Spanish: Muchas gracias.
- Apology
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Italian: Scusi, non ho capito.
Spanish: Perdone, no he entendido.
- Directions
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Italian: Dov'è la fermata della metro più vicina?
Spanish: ¿Dónde está la parada de metro más cercana?
- Ordering
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Italian: Prendo lo stesso, grazie.
Spanish: Tomaré lo mismo, gracias.
- Allergy
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Italian: Sono allergico alle noci.
Spanish: Soy alérgico a las nueces.
- Bill
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Italian: Il conto, per favore.
Spanish: La cuenta, por favor.
- Hotel
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Italian: Ho una prenotazione a nome [nome].
Spanish: Tengo una reserva a nombre de [nombre].
- Pharmacy
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Italian: Avete qualcosa per il mal di stomaco?
Spanish: ¿Tienen algo para el dolor de estómago?
- Help
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Italian: Mi può aiutare, per favore?
Spanish: ¿Puede ayudarme, por favor?
Where you'd use it
- Spanish travelers in Rome, Florence, and Naples See the Rome guide →
- Italian holidays in Barcelona, Madrid, and Andalusia
- Restaurants in Italy serving Spanish-speaking guests For restaurants →
- Erasmus students and the friendships that follow them home
Common questions
- Does metcha translate Spanish to Italian as well as Italian to Spanish?
- Yes, both directions run in the same session. When someone speaks Italian, the other person hears it in Spanish; when they reply in Spanish, you hear it in Italian. There is no direction to configure and no turn-taking button. See how it works for the full walkthrough.
- Is Italian ↔ 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 Italian 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 Italian 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.