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Two Way Conversation on iPhone, iPad and Android

This page covers the mobile apps — iPhone, iPad, and Android. The control sits in the same place and behaves the same way on all three. For what the feature does and how it works, see the Two Way Conversation overview.

On mobile, two-way is the direction a fresh install starts in, so most of the time there is nothing to turn on.

Set Up a Two-Way Conversation​

  1. Open the Whisperr app — iPhone/iPad or Android

  2. In the language bar at the bottom of the screen, tap either language to set the two languages you'll be speaking

  3. Check the arrow icon between them — it should be the double arrow ⇄. Tap it to cycle ⇄ → → → ← → ⇄

The two language pickers with the two-way arrow icon between them

  1. Keep Microphone selected as the recording source

  2. Tap the record button and let the two of you talk

On iPhone and iPad, the source pill at the top of the screen reads Two Way Convo while recording — that's your confirmation both languages are being listened for. Each line appears in the language it was spoken in with the translation underneath, and a change of speaker or spoken language starts a new line.

Your choice of direction is saved, so the next recording starts the same way.

Reading It From Both Sides of a Table​

If the phone or tablet is going to sit between the two of you, open ⚙ Settings:

  1. Turn on Split Screen View — the transcript splits into two stacked halves instead of one scrolling list
  2. On iPhone and iPad, turn on Face-to-Face Mode, which appears underneath it. This flips the top half upside down and locks each half to one language, so the person across from you reads their language the right way up while you read yours.

Show Flags in Bubbles, also in Settings on iPhone and iPad, puts a language flag next to each bubble — handy when you're glancing at a conversation that switches languages every few seconds.

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Face-to-Face Mode is an iPhone and iPad feature. On Android, Split Screen View splits transcription from translation but doesn't rotate either half.

Hearing It Instead of Reading It​

Tap Speak Aloud in the recording controls and Whisperr reads each translation out loud as it's confirmed — your side in their language, theirs in yours. The icon is a pair of headphones for a reason: on a loudspeaker, the mic hears Whisperr and transcribes it back. Keep Echo Cancellation on in Settings (it is by default) if headphones aren't an option.

Common Issues​

Only one of the two languages is being transcribed​

The direction is on → or ← rather than ⇄. Stop recording, tap the arrow icon until it shows the double arrow, and start again.

It behaves differently from my other recordings​

Two-way always runs through Whisperr's cloud speech engine. If you had on-device transcription or translation turned on, two-way overrides it for the duration of the recording — an on-device recognizer can only listen for one language at a time, which would leave one of the two speakers with no transcript at all. Two-way needs an internet connection.

The other person's speech is transcribed into my language​

Both language pickers need to be set to the two languages actually being spoken. Whisperr only listens for those two, and anything else gets forced into the nearest one.

The transcript keeps merging both speakers into one line​

Leave a short pause between turns. A change of speaker or spoken language starts a new line, and a clean gap makes that split cleaner.

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