Italian
Italian is official in Italy and the Swiss Confederation, as well as the EU. Baian’s live Italian interpretation keeps the listener flow in Italian, with Ascolta and Leggi.
How far behind the speaker?About 2.4 seconds with Baian. Lower is better.
On their own phones
Attendees tap Italiano
Planning your event
Italy names Italian as its official language. The Swiss Confederation has German, French and Italian as official languages. Italian has also been an EU official language since 1958.
The OSCE names the following working languages: “English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish.” For an event involving these institutions or delegations, ask attendees which translation they want to follow. Record that choice separately from the languages presenters will use in their contributions.
Choosing Italiano brings up “Come preferisci seguire?”. Ascolta starts listening, while Leggi opens the written translation. The following screens are in the selected language too. Attendees can listen to the translation through their own headphones or read the programme as text.
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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.