PARALLEL SESSIONS
Each room runs its own live stream with its own languages. Attendees switch rooms and the audio follows, with no receiver to return at the door.
Conferences & keynotes
LIVE CONFERENCE
INTERPRETATION
Give every attendee the keynote in their own language, live on their own phone. No interpreter booths, no receivers, no rental logistics.
Book a demoWHY CONFERENCES OUTGROW TRADITIONAL INTERPRETING
A conference is the hardest format to interpret. Sessions run in parallel, speakers overrun, and the programme changes on the morning of the event. Traditional simultaneous interpreting was designed for a single room with a fixed agenda, so every extra track means another booth, another pair of interpreters and another set of receivers to hand out and collect.
The cost scales with rooms and languages, not with value. Organisers routinely drop languages they know part of the audience needs, simply because a fourth or fifth booth is not affordable. Attendees who do not speak the main language end up following slides and guessing.
Glot removes the physical layer entirely. Speech is captured from your existing sound system, translated in real time, and delivered as live subtitles and natural voice to each attendee's smartphone. Adding a language is a setting, not a booth.
BUILT FOR MULTI-TRACK PROGRAMMES
NO HARDWARE ON SITE
No booths, no transmitters, no headset inventory. Attendees scan a QR code and listen on the phone already in their pocket.
LAST-MINUTE CHANGES
A speaker swaps, a session moves, a delegation arrives late. Languages and rooms are adjusted from the dashboard while the event is running.
HOW LIVE CONFERENCE TRANSLATION WORKS
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Connect the room audio
Glot takes a feed from the mixing desk or a single microphone. Nothing is installed in the room and the existing AV setup stays untouched.
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Attendees scan a QR code
Displayed on screen or printed on the badge. No app to download, no account to create, no headset queue at the entrance.
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Everyone follows in their language
Each attendee picks one of 60+ languages and gets live captions plus a natural voice. Speakers present exactly as they would have anyway.
CONFERENCE INTERPRETING VS GLOT
Simultaneous interpreting was engineered for a single plenary room. A modern conference is several rooms running at once, which is where the model starts to strain. Here is what changes in practice.
| Traditional interpreting | With Glot | |
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| Setup on site | An ISO booth per room, a transmitter, and a stock of receivers to hand out and collect | A feed from the existing mixing desk. Nothing added to the room |
| Cost driver | Priced per language pair, per room, per day, plus interpreter travel and accommodation | Priced per event day, or from an hours credit. All 60+ languages included, with no surcharge |
| Adding a language | Another booth and another pair of interpreters, decided weeks ahead | A setting, changeable while the conference is running |
| Lead time | Booked weeks or months in advance; late changes are expensive or impossible | Set up the same day if the audio feed is available |
| Attendee experience | Queue for a receiver, return it at the exit, one channel at a time | Scan a QR code, listen on their own phone, switch language freely |
| Written record | Nothing, unless you commission a separate transcription service | A written recap you can download at the end of the session |
WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE ON A REAL PROGRAMME
Take a two-day congress with 400 attendees, three parallel tracks and an audience from twelve countries. With traditional interpreting, covering four languages across three rooms means twelve booth-days, teams of two interpreters per language pair per room, and roughly 400 receivers to distribute, charge and collect twice a day.
Most organisers do not do that. They interpret the plenary only, in two languages, and leave the breakout sessions monolingual. The delegates who most needed the technical sessions are the ones who lose them.
With Glot, each of the three rooms runs its own session from the existing sound desk. The language list is the same in the plenary and in every breakout, because enabling a language costs nothing extra. Delegates walk between rooms and reopen the session for the room they are in, with no receiver to swap at the door.
PREPARING YOUR CONFERENCE TRANSLATION
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A clean audio feed
The single biggest factor in quality. A line out from the mixing desk is ideal; a dedicated microphone is fine. What hurts is a room microphone picking up the whole hall.
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Wi-Fi or mobile coverage
Attendees stream on their own phones, so check that the venue's Wi-Fi holds the number of concurrent devices you expect, or that mobile coverage is solid in the halls.
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A glossary
Speaker names, product names, acronyms and any field-specific vocabulary. Supplying these beforehand is what keeps terminology consistent across all sessions.
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A visible QR code
On the opening slide, the programme and the badge. It removes the single biggest source of friction on the day, which is attendees not knowing it exists.
COMMON QUESTIONS
Yes. Each room is a separate live session with its own language set, running simultaneously under the same event. Attendees moving between rooms simply open the session for the room they are in.
No. Glot runs in the mobile browser. Attendees scan a QR code, choose a language and start listening. There is nothing to download, install or sign up for.
Median translation latency is around 800 ms, so captions appear well under a second behind the speaker and the translated voice follows just behind. It is designed to be followed live, in the room, while watching the speaker.
You can provide a glossary of product names, acronyms and speaker names before the event so they are transcribed and translated consistently across every session.
For most multilingual conferences, yes, and the gap widens with each extra language or room, because you are not paying for booths, receivers, transport or interpreter teams per language pair.
Traditional interpreting is quoted per language pair, per room and per day, so a three-room four-language conference multiplies quickly. Glot is priced per event day, or from a credit of hours, and every one of the 60+ languages is included with no surcharge. That is why the gap widens as your programme grows. Ask us for a comparison on your actual programme.
Attendees stream audio and captions on their own device, so ordinary venue Wi-Fi or mobile data is enough. What matters is that the network handles the number of simultaneous devices, which is worth checking with the venue for large halls.
Yes. Remote attendees join the same session as the room through the same link, so a hybrid conference does not require a second setup or a separate translation workflow.
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