Finnish
Finland names Finnish and Swedish as national languages, and Nokia has offered both alongside English at its AGM. Baian’s live Finnish interpretation uses Finnish listener instructions, headed by Suomi.
How far behind the speaker?About 2.4 seconds with Baian. Lower is better.
On their own phones
Attendees tap Suomi
Planning your event
Finnish has been an EU official language since 1995. Finland’s constitution names Finnish and Swedish as national languages. The Nordic Council lists its official languages as “Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish.”
Nokia’s 2025 AGM notice described a primarily Finnish meeting with an English President and CEO review, plus simultaneous translation into Finnish, English and Swedish. For a programme like this, record each participant’s chosen translation separately from the presentation language.
Under Suomi, the question is “Miten haluat osallistua?” and the options are Kuuntele to listen and Lue to read. Both the choice screen and subsequent phone screens use the selected language, so a guest can navigate using those labels.
Baian can translate a presenter’s speech as well as supplying the audience channel. With Multiple spoken languages enabled at the beginning, speakers can move between these three supported languages while attendees remain on the translation they selected.
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Discuss your event ↗WhatsApp Explore audience languages →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.