About us
The conversation you skip is the one that costs you.
Somebody gives you an address and you nod, because asking again would be the third time. A vendor explains what is in the dish and you point at it anyway. A guest at the front desk has a real problem and the only person who can hear it is on a break. None of these are dramatic. They just quietly decide how an afternoon goes, and they happen a hundred thousand times a day in this city alone.
That is the gap TOKI is built for. Not documents. Not subtitles. The ninety seconds where two people are standing in front of each other, willing, and stuck.
What we are building
A voice translator you can hand nothing to. One phone, two talk buttons, two languages. You hold yours and speak; TOKI says it out loud in theirs. They hold theirs and answer; it comes back in yours. No app for them to install, no link to send, no keyboard in an alphabet you cannot type, and no passing an unlocked phone across a counter to a stranger.
It runs in a browser today and is coming to Android and iOS. Fourteen languages, any pair, both directions — Thai to Japanese and Hindi to Portuguese, not just everything into English.
Why Thailand first
Because that is where we are, and because it is the honest test. Thai is tonal, written without spaces between words, and under-represented in most speech systems. A translator that works well here will work almost anywhere; one built for English-to-Spanish and pointed at Thai afterwards usually does not. Our servers sit in Singapore for the same reason — the round trip matters most for the people we built this for.
How we work
An emulator is not evidence
We shipped an audio bug that passed every emulator test and failed on every real handset, because the emulator accepted a microphone setting that real hardware does not. Nothing that touches audio capture or playback is considered done here until it has been confirmed on a physical device. It is written into our definition of done, and it is why we are slower than we would like to be.
Say what it does, and what it does not
TOKI is a machine translator. It is genuinely good at everyday conversation and it is not a human interpreter, so we tell you that on the home page, in the app, and in the terms — including the rooms you should not take it into: medical, legal, financial, emergency. Marketing those would be easy and would contradict our own legal page.
The microphone is a promise
Audio is captured while the talk button is held and at no other time. No background listening, no wake word, and a live indicator on screen the entire time it is recording. Your voice goes to our server and to OpenAI to be translated, and we say so before you sign up rather than in clause fourteen. We do not sell any of it. You can delete your account and everything attached to it from one screen inside the app.
Show the real thing
The recording on our home page is one continuous take, spoken live into a microphone against the same production servers you would be using. It is not a motion-graphics mock-up of an app, and it is labelled as real because we think the difference matters.
Who we are
TOKI is a product of Digital Living Co., Ltd., a small company in Bangkok, and a sister product to Brivfy. Small enough that a support email reaches someone who can actually change the thing you are writing about.
We would like to hear from you. Especially if TOKI got something wrong in your language — that is the feedback we cannot generate ourselves. Write to toki@brivfy.com, in any of the fourteen.
Where this goes next
More languages, the two mobile apps in their stores, and paid time for people who need more than the free thirty minutes. Beyond that we are resisting the temptation to add things. A translator that does one exchange perfectly is worth more than one that does nine things adequately, and the exchange is the hard part.