AGMs
Baian provides AI simultaneous interpretation for AGMs and shareholder meetings through attendees’ phones. Shareholders can read or hear proceedings in their chosen language without an interpreter booth or receiver handout. Keep voting and formal participation in your meeting’s existing process.
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.
On their own phones
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.
For your AV team
Phones, venue screens, your livestream or an existing headset system, all from one stage feed. A transcript is saved afterwards.
Connection guide for AV teamsPlanning your event
Novo Nordisk’s 2026 AGM page says the meeting is in English with simultaneous interpretation into Danish, while shareholders may speak and submit questions in Danish. Plan for the language used by shareholders once the prepared presentations end.
Nokia’s 2025 AGM notice described a mainly Finnish meeting, an English CEO review and translation into Finnish, English and Swedish. Anglo American’s 2025 page listed a Spanish and Portuguese simultaneous-translation Q&A facility. Check separately which parts of your meeting will have interpretation.
Baian replaces the interpreter team and booth for agreed language channels. Shareholders choose translated text or headphone audio on their phones. Before the session starts, enable Multiple spoken languages to cover the supported languages they may speak, then test a shareholder’s question followed by the chair’s answer.
An attendee’s chosen audience language stays the same when the speaking language changes. Check that the question microphone reaches the translation feed before shareholders enter the room.
Nokia’s notice distinguishes watching the webcast from formal meeting participation. The Baian listener link provides translation of spoken proceedings. Keep question submission and voting in your existing meeting process, and give shareholders clear instructions for each.
Ask the meeting organiser which parts require human interpretation. Rehearse a spoken motion and the chair’s voting instructions with the audience channel selected.
Use financial figures and company names from the presentation in the test. Ask a reviewer to compare what they heard with the prepared material. Include a question about a figure, so the rehearsal covers the unscripted exchange as well as the speech.
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.
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Discuss your event ↗WhatsApp Explore audience languages →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.
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.