Why my real-time Google Meet translator runs on your laptop, not my server

$0/month in infra costs. Audio that never leaves the user's device. Real-time two-way voice translation in Google Meet. Here's the architecture trick that made all three possible at the same time. I built a Chrome extension that does real-time, two-way voice translation in Google Meet. You speak Russian, your colleague hears English. They reply in German, you hear Russian. Subtitles, TTS, the whole thing. Then I had to figure out how to ship it. Most "AI in your meeting" tools follow the same pl