Conference interpretation
Baian translates the feed from your sound desk live. Attendees scan a QR code and read or listen on their own phones. No app, no receivers.
How far behind the speaker?About 2.4 seconds with Baian. Lower is better.
How often Baian was preferredOver professional translations · English into each language
The line marks 50%: an even split.
What changes
| With booths | With Baian | |
|---|---|---|
| In the room | Booths, interpreter consoles and a technician | A laptop or tablet connected to the sound desk |
| For each language | An interpreter team, usually two people taking turns | Choose it in Baian. Several languages run from one feed |
| For the audience | Receivers handed out and collected at the desk | Their own phone, a QR code and their own headphones |
| Afterwards | No written record | A transcript of the speech and each translation |
Against interpreters
BaianRuns for the whole session.
InterpretersSwap about every 30 minutes.
BaianNo fatigue, however long it runs.
InterpretersIn one study, meaning errors rose after 30 minutes.
BaianBuilt to translate the speech, not summarise it.
InterpretersIn one study, omitted meaning in 350 of 590 segments.
BaianSeveral languages from one stage feed.
InterpretersOne interpreter team per language.
BaianThe speech and each translation, saved.
InterpretersSeparate transcription needed.
BaianDownload the translated audio afterwards.
InterpretersOnly if someone records the booth.
Setup
Plug the sound desk into a laptop by USB, or use an audio interface.
Choose your languages and press start.
Attendees scan it and follow on their own phones.
For AV teams
Phones, venue screens, your livestream and an existing headset system, all from one session.
Connection guide for AV teams
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.
Questions
Yes. Baian translates the stage audio from your sound desk live and sends it to attendees’ phones. There are no booths, consoles or receivers to hire.
No. They scan the QR code, choose a language and follow in their phone’s browser. There’s no account to create.
A laptop or tablet, a USB or audio-interface connection from the sound desk, and internet for the laptop and the audience’s phones. Attendees bring their own headphones if they want to listen.
Yes. Baian can send translated audio into compatible headset or infrared transmitters through an audio interface. Test it on the real receivers before the event.
Events can plan for up to 10,000 listeners across several languages. Tell us your numbers before you book and we’ll confirm capacity and support.
Bring a short recording, your languages and your audience size. We’ll show you the listener experience.
Arrange a demo WhatsAppCaption 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.
Estimated medians: the speaker’s words appear in their own language about 1.0 seconds after they are spoken, and the first translation covering a word about 2.4 seconds after it.
Estimated from our captured listener feed for the same 53 recordings. The capture is incomplete, so some early previews are missing, and previews can still change before the sentence is finished. Times are measured to the feed, not to a phone screen.
Median 2.69 seconds behind the speaker, across 180 speeches.
About 30 minutes is the recommended turn. Meaning errors rose steadily after 30 minutes on task (pilot study, five professionals).
Part of the meaning was missing in 350 of 590 speech segments.