Desktop app · Zoom
Live translation for Zoom meetings.
Fishu for desktop turns every Zoom call into subtitles in your language, and can speak them to you with an interpreter voice. No bot joins, and nobody else installs anything.
macOS 14.2+, Windows 10 or 11, and Linux. Free to start: 1 hour a month, no card needed.
How it works in Zoom.
Fishu listens to your computer's audio, so it follows whatever Zoom plays: the Zoom app or Zoom in a browser, your own meetings or someone else's.
Read everyone else
Each speaker's words appear in your language in a small subtitle window that stays on top of every app, so it sits right over the Zoom gallery while you share a screen or take notes.
Hear them in your language
Turn on the interpreter and hear the meeting in your language, with the speakers' own voices turned down underneath. Your computer's voice is free; the natural voice sounds like a person.
Keep the conversation
The desktop app keeps the whole meeting in both languages, with who said what, and can write a short summary with decisions and to-dos. It stays on your own computer.
From download to subtitles.
There is nothing to set up inside Zoom itself.
- Download Fishu for desktop for Mac, Windows or Linux and open it. Until the apps are signed, your computer may warn on first launch; the help page shows how to open it anyway.
- Choose your language, the one you want to read and hear the meeting in.
- Join your Zoom call as usual. As people talk, their words appear in your language in the floating subtitle window.
- Want to listen instead of read? Turn on the interpreter voice. Headphones work best.
What about my own voice?
In Zoom, Fishu helps you follow everyone else today. Sending your own words into Zoom, translated, comes next. If some of your meetings are in Google Meet, the Chrome extension already does both directions there: your camera shows your words translated and your mic carries an interpreter voice.
The same desktop app also works with Microsoft Teams, Slack, Webex and any app that plays sound, on the same plan and the same hours. See pricing.
Zoom questions.
Does the meeting host need to turn anything on in Zoom?
No. Fishu listens to your computer's audio, the same sound you hear, so nothing changes in Zoom and nobody else has to change a thing. It works when you host and when you join someone else's meeting as a guest.
Does a bot join my Zoom meeting?
No. Nobody sees an extra participant. Fishu runs on your own computer, next to Zoom.
Does it work with Zoom in a browser?
Yes. Fishu for desktop follows any app that plays sound, so it works the same in the Zoom app and in Zoom in your browser.
Can the others hear me translated in Zoom?
Not yet. Sending your voice into desktop meeting apps comes next. Today that works in Google Meet, with the Chrome extension on the Pro plan.
Does it know who is speaking?
It tells voices apart and labels them Speaker 1, Speaker 2 and so on. Meeting audio carries no names, so in the desktop app you can rename each speaker, and the name sticks.
Is my Zoom meeting recorded?
Audio is streamed for translation while Fishu is on and isn't stored on our servers. The transcript stays in the desktop app, on your own computer.