Most shows have listeners for whom the show's language is a second one. Here is what MulingStream does for a live podcast or stream: listeners follow in their own language while you record, with nothing to install. And what it does not do: it is not a recorder, and it does not translate the finished episode.
Sooner or later, most shows find out that some of their listeners are further away than the show's language. A message arrives from a listener in another country who follows "most of it". The comments under a clip are in three languages. A guest is booked who would be more themselves in their own language than in yours.
Those listeners follow the gist, miss the jokes, and rarely comment. Translating an episode afterwards is slow and costly, and by the time the subtitles exist the conversation has moved on.
This post is about the live moment: what MulingStream does for a show while it is being recorded or streamed, and, just as clearly, what it does not do.
When you record live or stream, your listeners open a link, choose their language, and follow the conversation as it happens: they read it as captions in their language, or listen to a voice in their language, or both. The words reach them within seconds, so they are with you in the conversation, not reading about it a month later.
There is nothing for them to install, no account to create, and nothing for them to pay. It works in the browser of the phone or laptop they already have. Most languages can be both read and heard; a few can be read only, and the languages page shows which.
If you record in front of a live audience, the room follows on their phones too: scan the code on the screen, choose a language, and the laugh arrives at the same moment for everybody instead of a beat late for some.
It is worth being clear about this before you plan around it.
MulingStream is not a recorder. You record exactly the way you already record. Nothing in your recording chain changes, and nothing about your editing. It does not translate the finished episode. The people who listen to the published episode next week hear it as you recorded it. MulingStream serves the people who are with you live. A room follows one spoken language. You set the language the show is spoken in, and the room follows it. A show in one language, with guests who speak it, is a good fit. A show where the hosts switch back and forth between two languages is not what it does best today. Crosstalk is hard, for people as well as for software. When three voices talk over each other, the translation follows whoever comes through most clearly.
Take the audio you already produce, a second output from your interface or mixer, into the laptop that runs the room. For a simpler setup, the laptop's own microphone or a phone in front of the host will do. If a guest joins on a call, their voice is in the room as long as it is in the mix you send.
Before you go live, share the link where your listeners already are: the show notes, your social posts, the chat of your livestream. For a video stream, put the QR code on screen for the first few minutes. The link stays the same from episode to episode, so regular listeners keep it.
If you stream with video, MulingDisplay can be a transparent layer: your streaming software places the translated captions over the picture, so the people watching the stream can read along in that language without opening anything.
A show has its own vocabulary, and the things your regular listeners care about most are the ones a translation is most likely to get wrong.
The names. The show's name, recurring segments, regular guests, sponsors and promo codes: add them to the room's keywords once, and they come through as said in every episode.
Each episode's context. Paste the topic, the guest's background and the running order into Context Enhancer before you start, and the room knows what the conversation is about from the first sentence.
The meaning, not the words. Banter, slang and idioms are where word for word tools fall apart. The translation follows what is meant in context, and when a saying does not travel, Smart Hints add a short note underneath. For a faith podcast, the Christian setting recognises Scripture as it is quoted and shows the verse from a Bible in the listener's own language.
The episode reaches them on the day it happens, not the month after.
Since 20 June, when the room allows it, a listener who is following can share the room with a friend straight from their phone. The listener in another country who finally follows every joke is the one most likely to tell the next person.
The best test is your own show. Speak into the speaker demo for a few minutes and read what comes out, then run one real live episode and see who turns up, and from where. More on our podcasts page.
Since 22 July 2026, the old plans are gone. A show that goes live now and then pays as it goes, per credit, with no monthly commitment. A weekly show or a network takes a monthly membership with credits included at a lower rate. Every feature is included either way. See pricing.
Since 6 October 2026, the room has a Podcast setting, with a choice for the kind of show you make: a general podcast, Christian apologetics, faith and Christian living, dating and relationships, travel, business, news, health, and storytelling and true crime. Each keeps exact what matters in that kind of conversation: the sponsor read with its promo code, the steps of an argument, every figure in a business show, who said what in a news show. Read the details on our podcasts page.
We show you the whole thing live, in about fifteen minutes. Nothing is decided on the call and nothing follows it: you see it, and then you are the judge.