MacVoices MacVoices #26043: CES - Emotii Demonstrates Real-Time Multilingual Communication
Feb 1, 2026
Lucia Popa, Head of Delivery & Operations at Emotii, explains a real-time multilingual communication platform. They demo AI interpretation that preserves meaning, handle live demo hiccups, and showcase language support, manual switching, cultural personalization, integrations, APIs, and conferencing use cases.
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Real-Time Multilingual Understanding
- Emotii enables people to speak their native language and understand others in real time across many languages.
- Lucia Popa says the platform supports over 70 languages for calls and over 126 for text to bridge language gaps.
CES Demo With An Internet Glitch
- Chuck and Norbert demoed Emotii at CES by speaking English and Spanish while a colleague in Romania spoke Romanian.
- The live demo encountered an internet glitch but still showed live interpreted exchanges across languages.
Interpretation Over Literal Translation
- Emotii emphasizes interpretation over literal translation to preserve meaning and intent.
- Lucia Popa explains the system adapts phrases to convey intended meaning rather than word-for-word output.