Compare event interpretation
The choice between Baian and Interprefy depends on how your event runs and whether you need human interpreters. Baian replaces agreed booths and receivers with AI on attendees’ phones. Interprefy offers AI translation, professional interpretation and an Agent for scheduled meetings.
Who shows their accuracy?
Side by side · Checked 11 October 2026
Product features, not an accuracy ranking.
| Requirement | Baian | Interprefy |
|---|---|---|
| AI language coverage | Confirm spoken languages, audience languages and audio | Advertises 80+ languages and 6,000+ language pairs ↗ |
| Audience delivery | Phone browser with translated text or supported audio | Audio or captions through its mobile app or web platform ↗ |
| Online meeting route | Stage audio feeds Baian’s live interpreter on a laptop | Agent joins scheduled Teams, Zoom, Google Meet and Webex meetings and streams audio to Interprefy ↗ |
| Security documentation | Ask Baian for the evidence your organisation requires | Its security page states ISO 27001 certification and GDPR compliance ↗ |
Results
| Service | Published accuracy evidence |
|---|---|
| Baian | Results on named public tests, with dates and methods. See them ↗ |
| Interprefy | Its own private test only (“up to 98%”), scored with its own method. Source ↗ |
The practical differences
The Interprefy facts in this comparison were checked on 11 October 2026. Its AI Speech Translation page advertises 80+ languages and 6,000+ language pairs. Its web delivery and translated audio overlap with Baian, so assess your required language directions and event route before choosing.
Interprefy’s AI translator has a custom vocabulary feature for terms such as speaker titles, brands and products. Use examples from your event when assessing it, so you see how the programme’s terminology reaches attendees.
Interprefy’s AI Speech Translation page ↗Interprefy has broader advertised AI language coverage and also offers professional interpretation through a network of 6,000+ interpreters. If you want a human service, ask Interprefy which languages it can provide for your event.
Interprefy’s Professional Services includes dedicated project management and live remote support. Onsite assistance and hardware support are available on request. Ask Interprefy to specify the people and support included in your booking.
Interprefy’s professional interpreter network ↗Interprefy Professional Services ↗Agent shares a QR code or link in the meeting chat so attendees can access translation on their preferred device. Its page excludes town halls, webinars, breakout rooms and sessions requiring registration. For those meeting types, ask Interprefy about its other products.
Interprefy Agent’s supported meeting types ↗Baian’s event team confirms that QIYADA in Doha used Baian instead of its previous human-interpreter setup on 25 and 26 September 2026. The booths were taken down and translation headsets were not distributed; attendees followed Arabic and English through a QR code on their own phones.
The AV team sends stage audio to a laptop running Baian’s live interpreter in a browser, through the mixer’s supported USB audio or a sound card. Attendees select their language and read or listen through their own headphones. The laptop and phones need internet. Keep translated playback out of the input.
Baian at QIYADA, Doha ↗Venue audio connections for Baian ↗
Customer story · QIYADA, Doha
At Qatar Foundation’s QIYADA conference, attendees scanned the code and followed Arabic and English on their own phones. The interpreter booths were taken down.
Tell us your languages, audience size and sound setup. For up to 10,000 listeners at once, we’ll confirm capacity and support before you book.
Discuss your event ↗WhatsApp More comparisons →1st in Arabic (5.1%) and Korean (2.9%), 2nd in Russian and Danish. Fewer errors than all three OpenAI real-time models in 13 of the 14 languages we publish.
FLEURS: short Wikipedia sentences read aloud. Measures how many words come out wrong.
AssemblyAI published scores for 14 real-time engines. We ran Baian’s live interpreter on the same test set.
We joined clips into 15-minute recordings with 1.5-second gaps and played them into Baian’s live interpreter in real time, like a microphone, with automatic language detection. AssemblyAI streamed each clip separately with the language set in advance. Scoring ignores punctuation, capital letters, Arabic vowel marks and how numbers are written. Our charts show 13 of AssemblyAI’s 14 engines; the full table is on AssemblyAI’s site.
Caption Tool scored above the translators in Hausa, Swahili, Tamil and Urdu (preferred on 67% to 75% of sentences). Baian’s live interpreter had about the same overall quality in Arabic, Hindi and Korean.
148 English sentences that also have professional human translations. Measures translation quality with Google’s MetricX-24 automatic judge.
Baian ran the test. The human translations come from the public FLoRes-200 set.
Baian worked from the spoken audio; the translators worked from text. We compared scores sentence by sentence and counted a result only when the 95% range did not cross zero and two runs agreed. “About the same” means the test found no clear difference; it does not prove the translations were identical.
Median 2.1 seconds across 53 recordings in 15 languages (1.3 to 2.7 seconds per recording).
How long after a sentence ends its finished translation appears.
Baian, on its production Live service.
Measured on Baian’s production Live service from 13 to 15 October 2026, from the end of each spoken sentence to the finished English line in our captured listener feed. Earlier words in a long sentence wait longer than this. Spoken audio arrives a little after the text and was not measured.
Median 2.69 seconds behind the speaker, across 180 speeches.