Live translation and captions — run from Australia, Europe and the United States
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How it works

From one microphone to every phone in the room.

From the one feed you already send to the speakers, to every phone, screen and stream in the building, in the languages your audience chose. Four steps, and nothing for the audience to install.

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How live translation works in one room: a blue light trail runs from the speaker’s microphone to the sound desk, up to the SpanVoice mark above the audience, and out to every listener’s earphones and phone and to the caption screen above the stage.

The whole thing

Four steps, start to finish.

What you do, in order. Nothing in it needs a technician, and nothing is handed to the audience.

  1. 01 /

    Feed it the sound

    Open the Windows app on the computer at the sound desk and choose the feed from the mixer, or open the browser page on a laptop and choose its microphone. Press Start.

  2. 02 /

    Put the link where people can see it

    Your venue has one listening link and one QR code. Print it, project it, put it in the programme. Open the screen page on the projector if you have one, and add the caption band to your stream if you run one.

  3. 03 /

    Everyone chooses a language

    People open the link on their own phone and pick what they read, each of them independently. The room screen carries the one language you chose for it. Captions arrive as the speaker talks.

  4. 04 /

    Run the event

    Pause and resume from the desk, change the spoken language if a second speaker takes over, and stop when it ends. You pay for the hours you ran.

One microphone in. Every seat covered.

The people watching install nothing at all. At the desk a browser is the minimum, and a mixer feed through the Windows app is the better one.

  • In, from two kinds of source
  • Through our servers
  • Out to four places at once

The same feed that already goes to the speakers. A browser is enough to start; where there is a mixer, the Windows app takes the signal straight off it and holds steadier.

A phone, tablet or laptop

in a browser, nothing to install

A mixer and a PC

the Windows app, signal straight off the desk

SpanVoice servers

  1. audio to text recognition
  2. translating
  3. translated text to audio

AU · EU · US

Every phone

Each person reads in the language they chose, in their own browser.

The room screen

Captions sized for a room, in the colours the venue picked.

Your live stream

A caption band over the video, as a browser source in OBS, vMix or similar.

Audio translation

Spoken in their language, through the headphones already in their pocket.

Three places the words can appear

One person speaks, and the same words reach all three together.

Spoken ·

“The exits are at the back and on the far side of the room.”

SpanVoice
Live
Spanish

Las salidas están al fondo y en el lado opuesto de la sala.

Live captions · following the conversation
On their own phones
SpanVoice

Las salidas están al fondo y en el lado opuesto de la sala.

On the room screen
SpanVoice

Las salidas están al fondo y en el lado opuesto de la sala.

Over your live stream

What you need in the room

Four things, and most venues have all of them already.

  • A microphone on a stand with its cable plugged in and running across the floor of an event room.

    A microphone

    The one the speaker already uses. Its sound reaches the session from the mixer, or from the device at the front that is running it.

  • A small mixer feeding an audio interface and a laptop running the SpanVoice desk app, with a phone beside it showing the browser page.

    Something to run it on

    A phone, tablet or laptop with a browser is enough. A computer at the sound desk, taking the sound straight from the mixer, gives cleaner recognition and a better result.

  • A small wireless router on a shelf in a venue, status lights on.

    An internet connection

    For the device running it and for the phones in the room. Venue wifi or mobile data both do.

  • A folded card with a QR code standing on a table in an event room.

    A way to show the link

    A QR code on the screen, in the programme or on a card at the door. Late arrivals use the same one.

During the event

Someone arriving late opens the same link and follows from where the speaker is. If a second speaker takes over in another language, change the spoken language at the desk and the captions follow. Pause when there is a break; resume when it starts again.

At the end, stop the session. There are no receivers to count back in and no equipment to collect. The transcript is there afterwards if you want it.

Before your event

A few good questions.

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Do we need an internet connection?

Yes, at the desk and for the phones in the room. Venue wifi or mobile data both work; a stable connection matters more than a fast one.

Does the speaker have to do anything differently?

No. They speak into the microphone they already use. Nothing on their side changes.

Can someone join after the event has started?

Yes. The same link and QR code work for the whole event. They open it, choose a language and follow from that point.

What happens if the connection drops?

The session reconnects when the connection comes back, and the phones pick up again on their own. Nothing has to be restarted at the desk.

Can we keep a transcript?

Yes. The transcript of the session is available from the desk app afterwards.

Which languages can we run?

Sixty, for captions and for spoken audio. The full list, with a real sentence in each, is on the languages page.

Where to go next

See it in your own room.

Start a session with your own microphone, open the link on your phone, and read along.

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