Hybrid events
Baian provides hybrid event interpretation on attendees’ phones, translated text on venue screens and livestream captions through OBS. Your AV operator plans the room and broadcast outputs separately. Send a clean stage feed into Baian and use a separate route for any translated broadcast audio.
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
WHO’s 79th World Health Assembly page says proceedings are webcast live with interpretation in six languages. UEG Week 2026’s attendance page covers onsite Barcelona attendance and its online congress platform, naming English as the official language. Identify the translation needs of both audiences.
Generali retained livestream interpretation for 23 April 2026 in English, French, German and Spanish, alongside Italian Sign Language and Italian subtitling. Plan sign-language interpretation separately from Baian’s spoken-language translation.
The room audience can follow Baian through phone text or supported headphone audio, replacing agreed interpreter booths and receiver distribution. Projector view puts translated text on the venue screen.
Adjust its text size and colour, then position the QR code where attendees can scan it. Inspect that picture from the back of the room while a speaker answers an audience question.
Confirm Camera Overlay access with the booking, then add its link as an OBS Browser Source for livestream captions. Translated audio needs a separate route. Agree which language the stream will carry and listen to that output on a remote viewing device.
Check the text in the final streamed picture during the same passage. Test the projector and the broadcast independently so both audiences can follow the programme.
Include the audience question microphone in the translation feed. Rehearse a question and answer while someone checks the phone channel in the venue and another checks the broadcast. Agree how the presenter handles an interruption that affects only one of those outputs.
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 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.