live-translate-mcp

An MCP server that provides real-time local speech translation between English and Chinese. It utilizes Whisper for automatic speech recognition, Piper for text-to-speech, and Claude for translation, operating entirely locally without requiring cloud API calls or leaving data on the machine.

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You need:npm install -g live-translate-mcp

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What you can do with it

Translate audio files via Claude Desktop
Perform real-time English to Mandarin speech translation
Run local-first translation without cloud dependencies

Source and maintenance

Vendor evidenceRegistry 0.1.6

mcp-registry: dev.waxberry/live-translate-mcp@0.1.6 mcp-registry: io.github.jolucashornung/live-translate-mcp@0.1.5 Source repository

Maintenance checked: Oct 31, 2026, 10:27 PM UTC

Packages and installation

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live-translate-mcp 0.1.6

npm

live-translate-mcp package definition

{
  "version": "0.1.6",
  "transport": "stdio",
  "identifier": "live-translate-mcp",
  "registryType": "npm",
  "environmentVariables": [
    {
      "name": "ANTHROPIC_API_KEY",
      "format": "string",
      "isRequired": true,
      "description": "Your Anthropic API key"
    }
  ]
}

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Cursor

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Cursor configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "live-translate-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "live-translate-mcp@0.1.6"
      ],
      "env": {
        "ANTHROPIC_API_KEY": "<YOUR_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cline

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Cline configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "live-translate-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "live-translate-mcp@0.1.6"
      ],
      "env": {
        "ANTHROPIC_API_KEY": "<YOUR_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

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VS Code configuration

{
  "servers": {
    "live-translate-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "live-translate-mcp@0.1.6"
      ],
      "env": {
        "ANTHROPIC_API_KEY": "<YOUR_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

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Claude Desktop configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "live-translate-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "live-translate-mcp@0.1.6"
      ],
      "env": {
        "ANTHROPIC_API_KEY": "<YOUR_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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