Conferences and large events

A conference, a product launch, a forum with foreign guests, a company anniversary. Hundreds of attendees, speakers in 2 or 3 languages, an audience that needs several more. Traditional interpretation requires booths, headsets and a large budget.

Benefits

• Every attendee reads live subtitles on their own phone in the language they choose. They scan a QR code and pick a language; no application and no headset.
• Adding audience languages does not add interpreters.
• Speakers can switch language mid-session; Saydi detects it.
• The organizer receives a transcript of every session afterwards.

Mode and setup

Use Event Mode.

1. Create the event, set the speakers' language and the languages attendees can choose. Put the QR code on the screen, the standee and the printed programme.
2. Feed the audio from the venue's mixer into the Saydi computer over a wired connection. This is the most important step; see Stage tech.
3. 10 days before, send Saydi the speakers' names, organizations and topic vocabulary. Run a remote rehearsal 2–3 days before.

The full organizer checklist: Organizer checklist.

Notes

• Wi-Fi, not the software, is the usual bottleneck. Tell attendees they can use mobile data.
• Ask the MC to read the QR announcement at the start and after every break.
• Have one technical contact from the venue reachable throughout.

After the event

Transcripts per session in every language you offered. Attendees have nothing to clean up; they simply close the page.