Arabic to Urdu
An Urdu-speaking attendee can follow an Arabic speech in a right-to-left Baian listener screen. GEM Summit used this direction, with both written translation and audio available to the audience.
How far behind the speaker?About 2.4 seconds with Baian. Lower is better.
On their own phones
Attendees tap اردو
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GEM Summit in Doha on 29 January 2026 offered Urdu from Dr Nayef Bin Nahar’s Arabic speech through Baian. Urdu was one of eight translation outputs at the event.
Attendees used their phones and the venue’s large screen to follow the session. Human interpreters also worked there alongside Baian.
GEM’s Arabic speech and Urdu output ↗Selecting اردو opens a listener interface in their language, with ‘آپ کیسے تجربہ کرنا چاہیں گے؟’ as the prompt. سنیں starts listening and پڑھیں opens reading. The screens and translated text run right to left, and the attendee can follow either audio or the written translation.
Pakistan’s Constitution names Urdu as its national language. If the guest list includes Urdu-speaking delegates, specify which Arabic talks they will follow and whether the chair also needs translation of their questions.
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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 →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.