Universities
Baian provides live university lecture translation as text or audio on students’ phones. It also supports campus talks and ceremonies, with translated text on venue screens through Projector view. A university can provide audience interpretation without a booth or translation 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.
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
Arizona State University provides captioning at commencement ceremonies in Desert Financial Arena and Mountain America Stadium. Its accessibility page says scripted comments and presentations appear as captions on the arena screens. For your ceremony, decide where guests will read the spoken programme.
ASU also asks attendees to choose their graduation location and an available captioning language. Put the language choices for your event in the guest instructions, particularly when family members will follow a ceremony remotely.
Baian provides live lecture translation as text or supported audio on students’ phones. It can replace an interpreter team and booth for the agreed channels, with students using their own headphones. Baian provides translation for Ibn Haldun University.
Ask the university organiser which other accessibility or human-interpretation services the lecture needs. Describe the Baian channel alongside those services in the student information.
Test a passage from the lecture with a student or colleague who understands the subject in the audience language. Follow it with a question through the microphone the room will use. Check the lecturer’s answer, including the technical terms carried over from the question.
For a ceremony or large lecture theatre, inspect Projector view from the audience seats. Adjust text size and colour, then place the QR code where guests can scan it. Rehearse the change between prepared remarks and the presenter’s unscripted introduction, with a guest following the text.
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.