Is this simultaneous, or does it wait for the sentence to end?
It follows the live speech, in phrases, the way an interpreter’s voice does; the spoken translation follows the captions.
AI simultaneous interpretation
AI simultaneous interpretation, by the hour, for every language in the room.
Simultaneous interpretation has meant a booth at the back, a pair of interpreters per language and a box of receivers at the door. This is an automated alternative: the speaker talks into the microphone they already use, and each person in the room reads captions — or, for the languages with a voice, listens — in the language they chose, on their own phone. Captions in any of sixty languages at once. Charged by the hour, per language, with nothing to book.
The short answer
Simultaneous interpretation keeps pace with the speaker instead of waiting for them to finish. Here it is produced by machine: speech in, captions out in each language a listener picks, following the live speech; spoken translation is available in a shorter list of languages and plays on the phone through earphones. Captions are A$1.05 per hour, per language; spoken audio is charged per minute of audio produced, on top. No monthly fee, no per-person charge, and a language is only charged while somebody is using it.
What simultaneous interpretation looks like here
The outputs, and what the room needs to have.
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Captions in every language at once
Any of sixty, any one into any other, as many as the room needs. Nobody fixes the language list in advance; people pick on their phone.
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A spoken voice, for the languages that have one
Listeners put in their own earphones and hear the translation. Voices cover fewer languages than captions; the chooser on the phone shows which.
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The room screen too
One language, captioned, on the projector or venue screen, in your colours. Captions on the room screen.
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On their own phones
A QR code or short link opens a web page. Nothing to install, no account, no receiver to hand out. How the phone page works.
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Through a headphone system you already own
The spoken translation feeds it like any other source. The headphone system guide.
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A written record
Every caption is kept as text for three, six or twelve months, readable and downloadable afterwards.
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Names and terms, given beforehand
Tell it the speakers, places and specialist words it should get right. Names and terms.
Where it is used
Conference sessions and AGMs where delegates arrived speaking four languages and nobody sent a list. Staff meetings, inductions and training in a multilingual workforce. Council and public meetings anyone may walk into. Services, tours, lectures and parent evenings. The common shape is one person speaking to a room that does not share a first language — and the common objection, until now, was that simultaneous interpretation was something only a large conference could afford.
It is set up the same way for a room of twenty and a room of two thousand, and it can be switched on for a meeting that was decided this morning.
Where a person is still the right answer
This is machine interpretation. It runs for as long as you run, without a hand-over, and it makes the mistakes a machine makes: names, numbers and specialist words are where it slips, and it does not know when a speaker is being ironic. The accuracy notice says where the line is. For a courtroom, a medical consultation or a negotiation where one word carries the outcome, hire a qualified interpreter. For the room where the alternative was no interpretation at all — which is most rooms — this is the difference between a hundred people following and a hundred people guessing.
What it costs
Captions are A$1.05 per hour, per language. A two-hour meeting in three languages is A$6.30 for captions. A full conference day, eight hours in four languages, is A$33.60. Spoken audio, if switched on, is A$0.040 per minute of audio actually produced. The calculator works out your own event, and the cost-per-hour page puts the same numbers next to interpreters, captioners and equipment hire.
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No lock-in contract
Nothing recurring, and nothing to cancel. Buy the time you need, when you need it.
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No minimum
Run nothing this month and you pay nothing this month. There is no floor to clear.
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Credit never expires
Top up once and use it this month or next year. There is no billing period for it to lapse at the end of.
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Compare us on price
Price your event wherever you like, then work the same event out here. We are very comfortable being compared.
Can AI do simultaneous interpretation?
For the room on this page — one speaker, many listeners, each in their own language — yes. What it cannot do is sit between two people in a negotiation and judge tone. The accuracy notice covers where a qualified interpreter is the right choice.
Do we need interpretation booths or dedicated receivers?
No. The speaker’s existing microphone feed, a computer at the desk, and the phones people already have. A screen at the front is optional; so is a headphone system you already own.
Does it work for people joining online?
Captions can be laid over your video output for a stream, from the same session as the room. There is no plug-in for meeting software; for a hybrid meeting the stream carries the captions. Captions over a live stream.
How many languages can run at the same time?
Captions in any of the sixty, at once. Spoken voices in fewer. A language is charged only while somebody is using it.
Can the interpreter we already have keep working?
Yes. A booked interpreter covers one language and this covers the rest, or everyone reads along as a backup.
What does the audience need?
A phone and the QR code; earphones if they want to listen rather than read. Nothing to download, no account.
Is there a transcript afterwards?
Yes, in every language that ran, kept for the period you choose.
Try it on your next event.
A$10 of free credit, no card. See what the room would see before you book anyone.
A$10 of free credit when you sign up, no credit card needed. Credit never expires — use it this week or next year.