German
German has roles in EU institutions, Austria and the Swiss Confederation. For live German interpretation, Baian’s listener page offers Deutsches Audio starten or Lesen, with German navigation.
How far behind the speaker?About 2.4 seconds with Baian. Lower is better.
On their own phones
Attendees tap Deutsch
Planning your event
It has been an EU official language since 1958. The OSCE’s working-language list reads “English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish.” Austria names German as its state language, with federal rights for linguistic minorities preserved.
German is also one of the official languages of the Swiss Confederation alongside French and Italian. For faith assemblies, the Lutheran World Federation’s 2023 Assembly handbook names it among its four working languages.
Deutsch opens the German question “Wie möchten Sie teilnehmen?”. The audio control reads Deutsches Audio starten, and Lesen selects reading. The subsequent phone screens use the same language, with translated speech available through headphones and written translation for attendees who prefer to read.
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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.