Putting a Live Interpreter Inside Any Meeting App: Lessons from Routing Translated Speech on macOS and Windows

I built Parley, a desktop live interpreter, because I join a lot of international meetings and my English isn't great. This post is about the audio plumbing, which turned out to be most of the work. No code to sell you here, just what I learned. The constraint that shapes everything I wanted spoken translation in both directions during a normal call, without asking anyone else to install anything, and without writing a plugin for each meeting platform. The only interface every meeti