French
Baian’s live interpreter translates your speakers into French as they talk. Attendees scan one QR code and tap Français to read or listen through their own headphones. You can provide French without interpreters, a booth or receivers.
How far behind the speaker?About 2.4 seconds with Baian. Lower is better.
On their own phones
Attendees tap Français
Planning your event
French is one of the six official UN languages, and UN Geneva interprets statements made in any of them into the other five. French is also an official language of the African Union, NATO and the Council of Europe, and a working language of the OSCE.
It is the language of the Republic in France and an official language in Canada and Switzerland. If your delegates come from any of these places, plan the French channel from the start.
After tapping Français, the attendee sees the listener page in French. It asks “Comment souhaitez-vous suivre ?” and offers Écouter to listen or Lire to read. French audio plays through their own headphones, and nobody installs an app or queues for a receiver.
English and French are Canada’s official languages and the two official languages of NATO and the Council of Europe. When a speaker uses both, switch on Multiple spoken languages before the session starts.
Baian then follows the speaker from French into English and back without a restart, and each attendee stays on the language they chose.
Live English interpretation ↗
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 →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.