Speaker (Korean)
안녕하세요, 오늘 생산 라인 점검부터 시작하겠습니다.
Buenos días, hoy empezaremos con la revisión de la línea de producción.
안녕하세요 Hola
Live translation
Korean ↔ Spanish
through one pair of earbuds.
Share an earbud. Pick Korean and Spanish. Each of you hears the other in your own language, live.
A sample exchange
Three turns between Korean and Spanish, the way they'd actually go. Each card shows the original line above the translation.
Speaker (Spanish)
De acuerdo. ¿Empezamos por la pieza que cambiamos ayer?
네, 알겠습니다. 어제 교체한 부품부터 확인하면 될까요?
Speaker (Korean)
좋습니다. 그럼 같이 가서 보시죠.
Perfecto. Entonces vamos a verlo juntos.
What metcha supports for this pair
| Korean | 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
Korean and Spanish meet on the factory floor and on the road: Hyundai and Kia run major plants in Nuevo León, Mexico, putting Korean managers and Mexican teams side by side every day, while Korean tourists travel through Madrid, Barcelona, and Andalusia. The languages share nothing structurally, hangul and a polite register (존댓말) on one side, Latin-script Spanish with usted on the other. Most tools route a non-English pair through English; metcha's Better Translation path on metcha Plus translates directly between Korean and Spanish and keeps the polite form in a meeting or a shop.
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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Korean: 안녕하세요, 만나서 반갑습니다.
Spanish: Hola, mucho gusto.
- Thank you
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Korean: 정말 감사합니다.
Spanish: Muchas gracias.
- Apology
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Korean: 죄송해요, 잘 못 알아들었어요.
Spanish: Disculpe, no entiendo.
- Directions
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Korean: 가장 가까운 역이 어디예요?
Spanish: ¿Dónde está la estación más cercana?
- Ordering
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Korean: 뭐가 맛있어요?
Spanish: ¿Qué me recomienda?
- Allergy
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Korean: 저는 견과류 알레르기가 있어요.
Spanish: Soy alérgico a los frutos secos.
- Bill
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Korean: 계산해 주세요.
Spanish: La cuenta, por favor.
- Hotel
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Korean: 예약했는데요.
Spanish: Tengo una reserva.
- Pharmacy
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Korean: 두통약 있어요?
Spanish: ¿Tiene algo para el dolor de cabeza?
- Taxi
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Korean: 이 주소로 가 주세요.
Spanish: ¿Me lleva a esta dirección, por favor?
Where you'd use it
- Korean automotive plants in Nuevo León, where Hyundai and Kia teams work with Mexican staff See the Mexico City guide →
- Korean tourists in Spain: Madrid, Barcelona, Andalusia
- Shift handovers and supplier meetings on the factory floor
- Spanish speakers living and working in Korea
Common questions
- Does metcha translate Spanish to Korean as well as Korean to Spanish?
- Yes, both directions run in the same session. When someone speaks Korean, the other person hears it in Spanish; when they reply in Spanish, you hear it in Korean. There is no direction to configure and no turn-taking button. See how it works for the full walkthrough.
- Is Korean ↔ 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 Korean 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 Korean 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.