Chinese
The UN and SCO name Chinese, while Singapore’s constitution specifies Mandarin. Baian’s live Chinese interpretation displays Simplified Chinese, with buttons in English after the 中文 selection.
How far behind the speaker?About 2.4 seconds with Baian. Lower is better.
On their own phones
Attendees tap 中文
Planning your event
Chinese is an official UN language. The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s charter states: “Russian and Chinese shall be the official and working languages of the SCO.” Singapore’s constitution names four official languages: Malay, Mandarin, Tamil and English.
Use the language name that fits the delegation you are inviting, then specify the written output separately. Baian uses Simplified Chinese; ask whether that is the form your attendees expect to read and include it in the audience brief.
The 中文 button chooses the translation. Subsequent buttons remain in English, even though the written output is Simplified Chinese. Attendees can read that text or hear translated audio; explain the buttons in English to guests who need help navigating them.
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 →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.