Arabic and English
Arabic and English speakers can share a Baian session, with each attendee staying on their chosen audience language. QIYADA attendees followed Arabic and English on phones; The Quran Summit announced Baian for English-to-Arabic translation.
How often Baian was preferredOver professional translations · Live English to Arabic
The line marks 50%: an even split.
On their own phones
Attendees tap عربي
Attendees tap English
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At QIYADA, Qatar Foundation, in Doha on 25 and 26 September 2026, attendees followed Arabic and English translation through a Baian QR code on their phones.
Baian’s event team confirms that QIYADA used Baian to replace its previous human-interpreter setup: the booths were taken down and no translation headsets were distributed. The Quran Summit announced Baian on 1 October 2025 for real-time English-to-Arabic translation.
QIYADA’s replacement setup ↗The English-to-Arabic announcement ↗An English listener sees ‘Listen or read?’ with Listen and Read. Choosing عربي brings up Arabic screens with استمع and اقرأ, laid out right to left. Both languages support text and headphone audio. A change of supported speaking language leaves each attendee on their chosen output.
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation’s Charter names Arabic, English and French as its languages. For a programme using Arabic and English, identify which audience needs each direction, including questions from delegates.
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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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.