Óyeme
Why This Exists
Logan doesn't speak Spanish. Victor doesn't speak English. They're family. Logan married Valentina — a Colombian from Barranquilla — and gained a father-in-law he couldn't talk to. Victor is warm and funny. Sandra and Valentina translate, but it's not the same. The jokes land late. The stories lose their color. So Logan sat down and built Óyeme — handmade, designed for the family.
The Morning of the Wedding
The morning of a family wedding, Victor and Logan ended up alone — no Valentina, no Sandra, no translator. There were things to do, places to get to, and they only had each other. They tried Google Translate — it could translate the words, but it was buggy and slow. Trying to have a real conversation through it was frustrating. It killed the flow. They walked together, pointed at things, laughed at how absurd it all was, and made it work. That moment — the good kind of awkward, the connection that's there even without words — is what Óyeme is trying to hold onto. And that's why Óyeme doesn't just translate Spanish — it understands where you're from.
Radio Mode
Pick two languages — English and Spanish. When someone speaks in Spanish and says "cambio", the app translates to English. When someone speaks in English and says "over", it translates to Spanish. Back and forth, using stop words for clear turn-taking.
See how it works →Table Mode (Mesa)
For when the whole family is together. Multiple people speak in their own languages and the app tracks each one. Real-time transcriptions, color-coded by speaker, with automatic translation for every turn. Nobody has to wait or stop the conversation.
See how it works →Learn, Not Just Translate
Óyeme isn't just a translator — it's also designed to help you learn your in-laws' language. The goal isn't to avoid learning Spanish; it's to make the learning happen naturally through real conversations. Radio mode has playback with word-by-word highlighting, slowed-down audio replay, and always shows the translation even when it's not the target language — so you absorb vocabulary as you go.
Your Family, Your Team
When you log into Óyeme, your family is your org. Each member records a ten-second voice sample — that's it. From there, the app recognizes who's speaking by voice confidence. In radio mode, it knows who's talking and in what language. In table mode, it can tell apart three, four, five people at the same table. It's not generic — it knows it's you.