Talk face to face
Hold the button, say it, let go. The other side hears it in their language. One phone between two people, no passing it back and forth.
English ⇄ Spanish for the crews that build, mow, and clean
Your crew understands you. Every time.
ChambaTalk translates between English and Spanish the way work crews actually talk — the vocabulary, the measurements, the urgency of a warning. Built for supervisors running mixed crews in construction, lawn & tree care, and janitorial work: pick your trade and the app speaks it.
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Trades
Pick your trade
Each trade has its own vocabulary, and you never see the other trades’ words. Read what ChambaTalk does for yours.
How it works
Three steps. No training.
Pick your trade
Construction, lawn & tree, or cleaning. The app speaks that trade’s vocabulary and never shows you the others’.
Hold the button, say it
Let go and the other side hears it in their language, in the app’s voice. One phone between two people.
Text your crew the code
Every worker joins free with the invite code. Crew chat translates both ways, with signal or without.
Why not just use a translation app
A general translator guesses. This one knows.
“Set the studs”
Translatorfraguar los montantes
ChambaTalkcoloca los montantes
A general translator hears “set” and reaches for fraguar — what concrete does while it cures. Telling a carpenter to cure a stud is nonsense. ChambaTalk says coloca los montantes.
“Strip the floor”
Translatordespojar el piso
ChambaTalkdecapa el piso
For a cleaning crew, stripping is removing floor finish — decapar, never despojar. For a concrete crew the same word means pulling forms. ChambaTalk knows which crew is talking.
“Top that tree”
Translatorencima de ese árbol
ChambaTalkdesmocha ese árbol
A tree crew hears an instruction — desmocha ese árbol. A general translator hears a preposition and produces nonsense about being on top of a tree.
“16 on center”
Translator40,6 cm al centro
ChambaTalka cada 16 pulgadas
Measurements stay in the units they were said in. Nothing silently becomes centimetres between one end of a wall and the other.
“Watch out!”
Translatorten cuidado, por favor
ChambaTalk¡Aguas!
A warning has to land as a warning. ¡Aguas! — not a politely worded suggestion that someone might want to consider moving.
“Mix another bucket of mud”
Translatormezcla otra cubeta de lodo
ChambaTalkprepara otra cubeta de pasta
On a drywall crew, mud is joint compound — pasta. A general translator sends someone to the yard for dirt. ChambaTalk uses the word the crew already uses.
30%OF US CONSTRUCTION
One crew in three
About 30% of US construction workers are Hispanic or Latino, per the Bureau of Labor Statistics — and on framing, roofing, and landscaping crews across the South and West, Spanish is often the language of the majority. English-only instructions leave half the jobsite guessing.
The bilingual bottleneck
When every instruction routes through the one person who speaks both languages, work stops each time they step away — and one misheard detail gets built into the job. ChambaTalk lets the supervisor talk to anyone on the crew directly.
Safety has a language rule
OSHA expects safety training to be delivered in a language workers actually understand. A warning that is not understood is not a warning — so the glossary marks safety-critical terms, and warnings translate with their urgency intact.
What it does
Everything the crew needs to say
Crew chat that translates both ways
Everyone writes in their own language and reads in their own language. Out of signal, messages queue and send themselves when the bars come back.
The whole crew, or just one person
A group chat for every crew and direct messages for anyone on it — no copy-pasting between a translator and a texting app. Unread badges and notifications mean a message from the field does not sit unseen until lunch.
A trade glossary, free
1,921 terms across the trades — framing, concrete and electrical for construction; turf, trees and irrigation for lawn care; floor care, chemicals and restrooms for janitorial — with how to say them, an example on the job, and the regional variants your crew might use.
It speaks the register your crew speaks
Mexican jobsite Spanish by default, because that is what is spoken on US crews. Tablaroca, not panel de yeso. Desbrozadora — or weedeater — not recortadora de hilo. Trapear, not fregar el suelo. Where a word changes by region, the glossary lists the variants.
Pricing
Simple pricing
Workers never pay — they join with an invite code, free, always. Plans are for the supervisor or the company.
Free
$0
The translator, talk mode, and the full glossary.
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Pro
$29/month
or $290/year — two months free
For one supervisor.
Company
$99/month
For an organization.
Prices in USD. Manage or cancel anytime — no calls, no contracts. Purchases happen on the web, never inside the app.
Articles
From the articles
How to run a toolbox talk when half the crew speaks Spanish
What OSHA expects on language, why one hazard beats five, how to say it, show it and hear it back, and a 12-line bilingual opening script.
Chemicals and dilution: what to tell a cleaning crew in Spanish
How to read a dilution ratio, why bleach never meets ammonia or bowl cleaner, what the SDS is for, and the Spanish phrases that keep a cleaning crew safe.
Concrete pour day: what to say before, during and after
The lines a supervisor needs on pour day — form and rebar checks, slump and screed, finishing and curing, and the wet-concrete safety calls — in Spanish.
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