Medical congresses
Baian translates medical congress speeches into audience languages on delegates’ phones, as text or audio. You can add interpretation to an English-language programme or replace an agreed booth setup, after rehearsing the specialist material with people who understand it.
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
WCO-IOF-ESCEO’s 2026 congress information names English as the official language and says no translation will be provided. UEG Week 2026 names English as its official congress language. Check what language support your programme offers beyond the language used on stage.
ESGO’s 2026 final programme excludes simultaneous translation and separately offers AI-powered live transcriptions and translated captions in its Events App. The captions sit under the live-captions tab for interactive sessions. Decide whether your delegates need translated audio as well as text.
Baian gives delegates translated text and supported audio languages on their phones. It can provide interpretation for an English-language programme or replace an agreed interpreter team and booth. The congress organiser decides which sessions need human interpretation.
Explain the text and audio choices in the delegate information so attendees know what is available for their language. Include any other accessibility provision separately.
Use a passage from the actual presentation, including specialist terms and abbreviations. Ask a clinician who speaks the target language to read and listen to the translation. Test spoken figures against the presentation material, then listen to the panel’s response to a question.
Include the audience question microphone in the translation feed and rehearse the handover to a panellist. If supported speaking languages will change, enable Multiple spoken languages before the session starts and test the change with a reviewer. Agree how the chair handles an interruption to translation during the session.
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.