diff --git a/transcribe.py b/transcribe.py
index 44846b1..7148b5d 100644
--- a/transcribe.py
+++ b/transcribe.py
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 import sys
+import time
+import requests
+import threading
+import json
 from unittest.mock import MagicMock
 
 # Comprehensive workaround for missing _lzma in some Python builds
@@ -25,13 +29,15 @@ from silero_vad import load_silero_vad, get_speech_timestamps
 from transformers import MarianMTModel, MarianTokenizer
 
 # Parameters
-# Using the multilingual small model
 WHISPER_MODEL = "mlx-community/whisper-small-mlx" 
+INGEST_URL = "https://emiapi.reynafamily.com/live-captions/ingest"
+
 # Translation models (English -> Target)
+# Map to the specific keys requested by the backend
 TARGET_LANGS = {
-    "Spanish": "Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-en-es",
-    "French":  "Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-en-fr",
-    "Arabic":  "Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-en-ar"
+    "es": "Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-en-es",
+    "fr": "Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-en-fr",
+    "ar": "Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-en-ar" # Added Arabic as discussed before
 }
 
 CHANNELS = 1
@@ -42,25 +48,55 @@ BUFFER_LIMIT = SAMPLERATE * 30
 MIN_SILENCE_DURATION_MS = 500 
 
 audio_queue = queue.Queue()
+ingest_queue = queue.Queue()
 
 def callback(indata, frames, time, status):
     if status:
         print(status, file=sys.stderr)
     audio_queue.put(indata.copy())
 
+def ingest_worker():
+    """Background thread to handle server ingestion with retries."""
+    while True:
+        payload = ingest_queue.get()
+        if payload is None: break
+        
+        delay = 1
+        max_delay = 15
+        success = False
+        
+        while not success:
+            try:
+                response = requests.post(INGEST_URL, json=payload, timeout=5)
+                if response.status_code == 200:
+                    success = True
+                else:
+                    print(f"\n[Ingest Error] Server returned {response.status_code}. Retrying in {delay}s...")
+            except Exception as e:
+                print(f"\n[Ingest Error] {e}. Retrying in {delay}s...")
+            
+            if not success:
+                time.sleep(delay)
+                delay = min(delay * 2, max_delay)
+        
+        ingest_queue.task_done()
+
 def main():
     device = "mps" if torch.backends.mps.is_available() else "cpu"
     print(f"Using device: {device}")
 
+    # Start ingest thread
+    threading.Thread(target=ingest_worker, daemon=True).start()
+
     # 1. Load models
     print(f"Loading Multilingual Whisper model '{WHISPER_MODEL}'...")
     
     translation_engines = {}
-    for lang_name, model_id in TARGET_LANGS.items():
-        print(f"Loading {lang_name} translation model ({model_id})...")
+    for lang_key, model_id in TARGET_LANGS.items():
+        print(f"Loading {lang_key} translation model ({model_id})...")
         tokenizer = MarianTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id)
         model = MarianMTModel.from_pretrained(model_id).to(device)
-        translation_engines[lang_name] = (model, tokenizer)
+        translation_engines[lang_key] = (model, tokenizer)
 
     print("Loading Silero VAD model...")
     vad_model = load_silero_vad()
@@ -77,7 +113,7 @@ def main():
         print("Invalid input, using default device.")
         device_index = None
 
-    print(f"\nStarting Multilingual live transcription... (Press Ctrl+C to stop)")
+    print(f"\nStarting live transcription & server ingest... (Press Ctrl+C to stop)")
     
     audio_buffer = []
     speech_started = False
@@ -109,34 +145,45 @@ def main():
                         if (buffer_len_samples - last_end) > (SAMPLERATE * MIN_SILENCE_DURATION_MS / 1000) or buffer_len_samples > BUFFER_LIMIT:
                             
                             # 1. Transcribe & Detect Language
-                            # We use task="transcribe" to get the original text and detect language
                             transcription_result = mlx_whisper.transcribe(current_audio, path_or_hf_repo=WHISPER_MODEL)
                             original_text = transcription_result['text'].strip()
-                            detected_lang = transcription_result.get('language', 'unknown')
+                            detected_lang = transcription_result.get('language', 'en')
                             
                             if original_text:
-                                print(f"\n[{detected_lang.upper()} detected]: {original_text}")
+                                print(f"\n[{detected_lang.upper()}]: {original_text}")
                                 
+                                # Prepare payload
+                                payload = {"original": original_text}
+                                # Rule 3: include source language key
+                                if detected_lang in TARGET_LANGS or detected_lang == "en":
+                                    payload[detected_lang] = original_text
+
                                 # 2. Bridge to English if not already English
                                 if detected_lang != "en":
-                                    # Use Whisper to translate the segment to English
                                     bridge_result = mlx_whisper.transcribe(current_audio, path_or_hf_repo=WHISPER_MODEL, task="translate")
                                     english_text = bridge_result['text'].strip()
-                                    print(f"[EN Bridge]: {english_text}")
+                                    payload["en"] = english_text
                                 else:
                                     english_text = original_text
 
                                 # 3. Translate from English to other languages
                                 if english_text:
-                                    if len(english_text) > 250:
-                                        english_text = english_text[:247] + "..."
+                                    # Limit input length
+                                    clean_en = english_text[:247] + "..." if len(english_text) > 250 else english_text
                                     
-                                    for lang_name, (model, tokenizer) in translation_engines.items():
-                                        inputs = tokenizer(english_text, return_tensors="pt", padding=True).to(device)
+                                    for lang_key, (model, tokenizer) in translation_engines.items():
+                                        # Skip if we already filled this (e.g. detected lang was 'es')
+                                        if lang_key in payload: continue
+                                        
+                                        inputs = tokenizer(clean_en, return_tensors="pt", padding=True).to(device)
                                         with torch.no_grad():
                                             translated_tokens = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=150)
                                         translated_text = tokenizer.decode(translated_tokens[0], skip_special_tokens=True)
-                                        print(f"[{lang_name[:2].upper()}]: {translated_text}")
+                                        payload[lang_key] = translated_text
+                                
+                                # Queue for background ingestion
+                                ingest_queue.put(payload)
+                                print(f"Sent to ingest: {list(payload.keys())}")
                             
                             audio_buffer = []
                             speech_started = False