DIY Wedding Translator for Three Languages

I recently hosted a wedding ceremony in Tokyo and needed live captions in English, Mandarin, and Japanese so every guest could laugh or “cry” together. Hiring a professional translator who speaks all three languages was almost unrealistic and too expensive, so I hacked together a browser-based translator that listens, slices audio on a steady beat, and beams subtitles to a shared screen. I’ll demo the heartbeat timer, the playful operator dashboard, and the safety checks that kept the captions flowing while I emceed.