Compare event interpretation
Both services translate event speech for attendees on their own devices. Compare the setup, language options and evidence before choosing one for your event.
Who shows their accuracy?
Side by side · Checked 11 October 2026
Product features, not an accuracy ranking.
| Requirement | Baian | Wordly |
|---|---|---|
| Audience languages | Read translated text in every listed language. Listening is available in selected languages. | Over 60 languages advertised ↗ |
| Joining the event | QR code or link in a phone browser; no app | QR code or link without software downloads ↗ |
| Translation output | Text and supported language audio through attendees’ headphones | Attendees can read translation or listen to AI voices ↗ |
| Venue audio input | Mixer’s supported USB audio or USB audio interface into a laptop | Audio cable and analogue-to-digital converter into a tablet or computer ↗ |
| Speaker audio route | Venue stage audio enters a laptop browser through USB audio | Lists compatibility with Zoom, Teams, Meet, WebEx and Cvent ↗ |
Results
| Service | Published accuracy evidence |
|---|---|
| Baian | Results on named public tests, with dates and methods. See them ↗ |
| Wordly | A 98% to 99% claim with no named test set. Source ↗ |
The practical differences
Wordly’s product facts below were checked on 11 October 2026. Its QR access and translated audio overlap with Baian’s attendee experience. Language coverage is a separate question: check the spoken and audience options for your programme, including whether each audience language has audio.
Wordly also documents glossaries that customise speech recognition for organisational terminology. If your programme contains specialist terms, include them in your product trial and assess the translation your delegates receive.
Wordly’s glossary instructions ↗Wordly publishes broader language coverage than Baian. Its security page states that it completed a SOC 2 Type II audit and achieved ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification.
If your procurement team requires published security credentials, Wordly gives it documentation to investigate. Ask for the reports and their scope. For Baian’s security evidence, contact the team before deciding whether it meets your organisation’s requirements.
Wordly’s published language coverage ↗Wordly’s security claims ↗At QIYADA in Doha on 25 and 26 September 2026, attendees followed Arabic and English through a Baian QR code on their phones. Baian’s event team confirms that QIYADA replaced its previous human-interpreter setup: the booths were taken down and no translation headsets were distributed.
An AV operator connects the stage feed to a laptop running Baian’s live interpreter in a browser, using the mixer’s supported USB audio or a sound card. Attendees open the link and choose their language. The laptop and phones need internet. Keep translated playback out of Baian’s input.
QIYADA’s phone-based translation setup ↗Baian connections for AV teams ↗
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 More comparisons →1st in Arabic (5.1%) and Korean (2.9%), 2nd in Russian and Danish. Fewer errors than all three OpenAI real-time models in 13 of the 14 languages we publish.
FLEURS: short Wikipedia sentences read aloud. Measures how many words come out wrong.
AssemblyAI published scores for 14 real-time engines. We ran Baian’s live interpreter on the same test set.
We joined clips into 15-minute recordings with 1.5-second gaps and played them into Baian’s live interpreter in real time, like a microphone, with automatic language detection. AssemblyAI streamed each clip separately with the language set in advance. Scoring ignores punctuation, capital letters, Arabic vowel marks and how numbers are written. Our charts show 13 of AssemblyAI’s 14 engines; the full table is on AssemblyAI’s site.
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.
Median 2.69 seconds behind the speaker, across 180 speeches.