Translation research
Test the meaning. Hear the difference.
Before trusting a translation tool with your event or video, try it on speech like yours. Here is what to check.
A five-minute recording can tell you a lot.
Choose a recording you have permission to use. Include the accent, vocabulary, and recording conditions your audience will encounter. Keep the original file unchanged when comparing tools.
- Meaning: does “we did not approve it” stay negative? Are conditions and qualifications preserved?
- Names and numbers: check people, places, dates, prices, and quantities against the recording.
- Dialect and mixed speech: include natural conversation, not only carefully read sentences.
- Timing: watch subtitles with the video. For live translation, measure when usable text or speech reaches the listener.
- Editing: count corrections and the minutes needed to make the result publishable.
For a fair comparison, hide the tool names from the reviewer. Keep examples of both good and bad output.
Try your recording in Caption Tool →Testing a language takes more than adding it to a menu.
A useful evaluation covers different speakers and dialects, clear and difficult audio, specialist vocabulary, and longer passages. Test both directions separately: Arabic to Turkish is a different task from Turkish to Arabic.
For live audio, also check pronunciation and whether the spoken translation falls behind. For subtitles, check line breaks and time on screen.
This is our proposed evaluation checklist, not a claim that Baian has completed or published a benchmark for every language. The product’s language menu shows what is currently available.
About these notes
Our guides link to the original research. Suggested tests are separate from published results and from Baian’s current product features.
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