At VivaTech in Paris, DeepL co-founder and CEO Jarek Kutylowski outlined his vision for real-time translation in international business, aiming for "a totally fluent conversation" where each side speaks their own language. The technology is designed for everyday business use, particularly in video calls on platforms like Microsoft Teams or Zoom, where users "just select the language in which you want to hear everyone." According to a 2026 independent assessment by Slator, DeepL Voice, the company's real-time AI voice translation product, outperforms Microsoft Teams, Zoom and Google Meet on accuracy, fluency and reliability, scoring 96.4 out of 100 on quality. Kutylowski's company recently acquired Mixhalo, a San Francisco-based real-time, ultra-low-latency audio platform, to deploy their tech at major events like VivaTech and in customer support settings. He stated, "The Mixhalo team has solved one of the hardest problems in live audio, which is delivering high-fidelity sound to thousands of people at once with basically zero latency." Despite his confidence, Kutylowski acknowledged the limits of translation, noting that "certain things, it is even impossible to tell them in another c."