Voice interpreter
The virtual microphone, so people hear you interpreted in Teams, Zoom or Meet
When you speak and the interpreter translates for the other participants, its voice has to enter the meeting as if it came from your microphone. A free virtual microphone does that: Rapporteur sends the interpreter's voice into it, with yours in the background; Teams, Zoom or Meet uses it as the microphone. Two minutes, once.
On Windows: VB-CABLE
Free, published by VB-Audio.
- Download VB-CABLE from vb-audio.com/Cable (“Download” button).
- Open the .zip file, right-click
VBCABLE_Setup_x64.exe, choose “Run as administrator”, then “Install Driver”. - Restart the computer.
- In Teams, Zoom or Meet, choose CABLE Output (VB-Audio Virtual Cable) as the microphone.
- In Rapporteur, choose “Others hear in”, then tap the “Interpreter” button: its voice goes into the cable by itself.
On Mac: BlackHole
Free, published by Existential Audio.
- Download BlackHole 2ch from existential.audio/blackhole (the link arrives by email), or, if you use Homebrew:
brew install blackhole-2ch. - Open the installer and follow the steps; macOS may ask for your password.
- In Teams, Zoom or Meet, choose BlackHole 2ch as the microphone.
- In Rapporteur, choose “Others hear in”, then tap the “Interpreter” button.
- You still hear the other participants as usual, through your speaker or earphones.
- When you stop the interpreter, switch Teams, Zoom or Meet back to your usual microphone: otherwise people no longer hear you.
- On a phone there is no virtual microphone: place the Rapporteur phone next to the meeting device on speaker; it translates out loud, and the other device carries it.
- The minutes are not affected: the interpreter's voice does not get into them.