Swahili
Attendees tap Swahili to read the translation. Swahili is text only, with phone screens in that language.
How often Baian was preferredOver professional translations · Recorded English to Swahili
The line marks 50%: an even split.
On their own phones
Attendees tap Swahili
Planning your event
The African Union includes Kiswahili in its official-language list: “Arabic, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Kiswahili and any other African language.” The East African Community lists “English, Kiswahili, French” as official languages.
Kenya’s constitution names Kiswahili and English as official languages. SADC’s Secretariat newsletter records the Summit’s adoption of Kiswahili as a fourth official working language in 2019. In Baian, attendees find this audience language under the label Swahili.
Selecting Swahili opens the written translation directly, with phone screens in Swahili. Attendees read the programme; it is text only, and there is no listen-or-read choice.
A speaker using Swahili can be translated into other supported audience languages. The Swahili audience receives text, so explain the reading format to guests who would usually expect to follow through headphones.
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 →Caption Tool scored above the translators in Hausa, Swahili, Tamil and Urdu (preferred on 67% to 75% of sentences). Baian’s live interpreter had about the same overall quality in Arabic, Hindi and Korean.
148 English sentences that also have professional human translations. Measures translation quality with Google’s MetricX-24 automatic judge.
Baian ran the test. The human translations come from the public FLoRes-200 set.
Baian worked from the spoken audio; the translators worked from text. We compared scores sentence by sentence and counted a result only when the 95% range did not cross zero and two runs agreed. “About the same” means the test found no clear difference; it does not prove the translations were identical.