Islamic conferences
Baian started with the Friday khutbah. It translates talks live to attendees’ phones, with no app to download, and matches Qur’an quotations to their surah and ayah.
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.
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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Qur’an quotations
Baian matches it to its surah and ayah, then shows a stored translation of that verse where one is available.
وَمَا أَرْسَلْنَا مِن رَّسُولٍ إِلَّا بِلِسَانِ قَوْمِهِ لِيُبَيِّنَ لَهُمْ
“And We did not send any messenger except in the language of his people, so that he might make clear to them.”
A stored translation, with the referenceSetup
Plug the sound desk into a laptop by USB, or use an audio interface.
Choose your languages and press start.
Attendees scan it and follow 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.
Questions
Qatar Foundation’s QIYADA in Doha used Baian for Arabic and English in September 2026, without interpreter booths. GEM Summit used it for eight languages alongside human interpreters. The Quran Summit announced Baian for English to Arabic.
When a speaker quotes a verse in Arabic, Baian matches it to its surah and ayah and uses a stored translation of that verse where one is available. Rehearse with your speakers’ material before the event.
Yes. Baian follows speakers who switch language, and each attendee stays on the language they chose.
No. They scan the QR code, choose a language and follow in their phone’s browser. There’s no account to create.
A laptop or tablet connected to the sound desk, and internet for the laptop and the audience’s phones. No receivers are needed.
Bring a short recording, your languages and your audience size. We’ll show you the listener experience.
Arrange a demo WhatsAppCaption 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.