Google Summer of Code 2026 · FOSSASIA
VoxBento
Real-time speech translation and multilingual interpretation for virtual and hybrid events, built in the browser. This is the running record of my Google Summer of Code 2026 with FOSSASIA: the system, the code, and the people around it.
My FOSSASIA journey
I started contributing in October 2025, before GSoC. My work grew from Eventyay checkout, permissions, and organizer workflows into live interpretation with VoxBento, the Eventyay Business pricing and billing foundation, and maintenance across FOSSASIA repositories.
Along the way, I opened issues and architecture proposals, reviewed contributions, and built shared instructions and skills for AI-assisted coding in Eventyay, VoxBento, and Visdom. Working with mentors and contributors at FOSSASIA Summit brought those collaborations beyond GitHub.
Contribution ledger
- 645
- merged PRs
- 709
- pull requests
- 333
- issues opened
- 18
- FOSSASIA repos
Pulled from the GitHub API at build time · full breakdown
The system
Live audio path
Direct media path: Python coordinates it but never touches audio bytes.
Interpretation pipeline
Captions, translations and synthesized speech are pushed to clients over WebSocket.
Timeline · 22 weeks
Mar 3–9
FOSSASIA Summit · Bangkok
May 1–24
Community Bonding · GSoC
May 25 – Aug 23
Coding period · Weeks 1–13
Jul 21–26
Wikimania · Paris
Jul 27 – Aug 5
FOSSASIA community · Germany
Aug 24 – Nov 2
Extended coding · Weeks 14–22
Nov 2
Work product due · Final report
Latest notes
All posts →Sep 5, 2026
Platform Integrations: Upstream Engineering, Lanczos Resampling, and the Gritty Realities of Open Source
The unglamorous, critical work of upstream engineering: fixing Lanczos image resampling in Eventyay core, EXIF rotation handling, Eventyay Business subscription quotas, and repairing Star-Me automation.
May 25, 2026
Coding Begins: Week 01 in the Weeds with WebRTC, WHIP, and MediaMTX
Week 01 of active implementation: moving from architectural diagrams to raw SDP handshakes, ICE gathering, and debugging cross-browser WebRTC quirks.
May 1, 2026
Community Bonding: The Architectural Epiphany of Keeping Python Out of Live Audio
Mapping VoxBento end to end and establishing the golden rule of real-time audio systems: never let the Python runtime touch the live streaming audio path.
Beyond the code
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FOSSASIA Summit 2026
Bangkok · Mar 3–9, 2026
Wikimania 2026 & UNESCO
Paris · Jul 21–26, 2026
FOSSASIA community
Germany · Jul 27 – Aug 5, 2026