Russian
Russian is an official UN language and a working language of several regional institutions. Live Russian interpretation in Baian keeps listener instructions in Russian, with Слушать and Читать.
How far behind the speaker?About 2.4 seconds with Baian. Lower is better.
On their own phones
Attendees tap Русский
Planning your event
The UN lists it among its six official languages. For the OSCE, the working languages are “English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish.” Russia names it as the state language throughout the country.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation names Russian and Chinese as its official and working languages. The Commonwealth of Independent States names Russian as its working language. Ask delegates from these institutions which translation they want to follow.
Selecting Русский brings the attendee to “Как вы хотите участвовать?”. Слушать means listen and Читать means read. The choice screen and the rest of the listener interface are in Russian, so guests can navigate in their own language whether they listen or read.
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.