Hotels and venues
Baian provides live interpretation for hotel ballrooms and conference venues on guests’ phones. It can replace hired booths or send supported audio into an existing headset or infrared system. The AV team must check the interface and test the actual receivers first.
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
Nagoya Marriott Associa Hotel advertises simultaneous-interpretation facilities in its Towers Ballroom. Le Méridien Zhengzhou lists simultaneous-interpretation equipment, while The St. Regis New Capital Cairo advertises six interpretation booths at The Summit. Ask the hotel’s AV team for its current equipment inventory and condition.
Identify the system connections and who will operate them. Agree whether your event uses guests’ phones or retains the installed receivers before the venue quotes interpretation equipment and labour.
With Baian’s phone-based arrangement, guests choose translated text or supported audio through their own headphones. The AI channels replace an agreed interpreter team and booth, with no receiver handout needed at the ballroom entrance.
Existing booths can remain unused when the event selects the phone route. If organisers retain human interpretation for some channels, give guests clear directions to the correct service.
Baian’s headset output sends supported language audio to two or four separate channels on a compatible audio interface. The AV team connects them to the existing headset or infrared system. Test each language on the real receivers, checking the channel a guest will select.
Bosch’s INTEGRUS manual describes an infrared transmitter with audio inputs, radiators and portable receivers, plus headphones and charging equipment. Ask the venue technician to check that equipment chain and plan receiver distribution when you retain it.
Plan the headset system connections ↗Agree who tests and labels the language channels and who supports guests collecting receivers. For phone-based events, check the joining instructions at the entrance. Test the booked ballroom’s question microphone and inspect its translated text screen from the guest seats.
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.