NO BOOTH PER LANGUAGE
Language coverage stops scaling with physical infrastructure, so serving a tenth delegation is a setting rather than another booth and another team.
International summits
INTERNATIONAL SUMMIT
INTERPRETATION
Institutional forums and multi-delegation summits, with the language coverage protocol demands and none of the booth-per-pair arithmetic.
Book a demoWHEN LANGUAGE COVERAGE IS A MATTER OF PROTOCOL
At a summit, languages are not a convenience, they are a signal. A delegation served in its own language is a delegation treated as an equal, and one that is not notices immediately. That is why language coverage at institutional events is a protocol decision before it is a logistics one.
Traditional interpreting makes that decision expensive. Coverage is priced per language pair, so each additional delegation compounds the cost in booths, interpreter teams and receivers, and the practical outcome is a shortlist of working languages that quietly excludes the smaller delegations.
Glot decouples coverage from hardware. Adding a delegation's language is a configuration change, which makes it realistic to serve every delegation present rather than the ones the booth budget allowed.
COVERAGE WITHOUT COMPROMISE
DELEGATIONS KEEP THEIR OWN LANGUAGE
Speakers address the room in their own language and are followed by everyone else, which is usually the point of a summit in the first place.
ZERO DATA RETENTION
Audio is processed in real time and nothing is kept at the end of the session: no recording, no transcription, no participant data. For closed sessions, nothing stored means nothing to disclose later.
HOW SUMMIT INTERPRETATION WORKS
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Define the language set
List the languages of the delegations attending. Coverage is not priced per pair, so the list can reflect who is actually in the room.
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Connect the room
Glot takes a feed from the existing conference sound system, so the room's AV and the seating plan stay as they are.
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Delegates follow on their own device
Each delegate selects one of 60+ languages and follows with captions and voice, including during questions from the floor.
COVERAGE MODELS COMPARED
At institutional level the question is not whether to provide interpretation, but how many delegations can be served within the budget. That is where the two models diverge sharply.
| Traditional interpreting | With Glot | |
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| Cost structure | Priced per language pair; each additional delegation compounds booths, teams and receivers | Priced per event day or from an hours credit; the number of languages does not drive the cost |
| Practical ceiling | Budget forces a shortlist of working languages, excluding smaller delegations | Coverage can match the delegations actually present |
| Physical footprint | Booths, cabling, receivers and technicians occupy the venue and the floor plan | A feed from the existing conference system; the room layout is unchanged |
| Late additions | A delegation confirming days before is difficult or impossible to accommodate | A language added from the dashboard, including during the session |
| Record of proceedings | A separate transcription contract, usually in the main languages only | A written recap to download at the end of each session |
A FORUM WITH FOURTEEN DELEGATIONS
A regional cooperation forum brings together fourteen delegations for two days. The budget covers interpreting in three languages, so eleven delegations follow in a language that is not their own.
The consequence is not only comprehension. Delegations that must operate in a second language intervene less, and the ones served in their own language shape the conclusions. Language coverage quietly becomes a distribution of influence.
With Glot, the language list is set from who confirmed attendance rather than from what the budget allowed. A delegation that confirms three days before the forum is added without renegotiating a booth contract, and the recap downloaded at the end of each session gives the secretariat a basis for its report.
PREPARING SUMMIT INTERPRETATION
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Confirm the language list against the guest list
Because coverage is not priced per pair, build the list from delegations actually attending rather than from a historical shortlist.
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Use the venue's conference sound system
Institutional venues generally have a managed sound system. A line feed from it is what gives the cleanest result, particularly with formal floor microphones.
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Supply names, titles and terminology
Delegate names, institutional titles, treaty and programme names. In a diplomatic setting, a mangled title is a protocol issue, not a typo.
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Agree who handles the recap
For restricted proceedings, decide in advance who downloads the written recap at the end of the session and how it is circulated, since nothing is retained by Glot afterwards.
COMMON QUESTIONS
Yes. Coverage does not require a booth or a team per language pair, which is what makes serving every delegation present realistic rather than aspirational.
Glot processes audio in real time and retains zero data, so nothing survives the end of a session. For proceedings under specific security requirements, review them with us before the event.
Yes. Multiple source languages are supported in the same session, so speakers are not forced into a working language to be understood.
It covers live comprehension for the room at a scale human interpreting cannot match economically. For legally binding or treaty-level proceedings, many organisers still combine both.
Glot produces a written recap that the secretariat can download at the end of the session. It is a working basis for reports, not a certified record, and it must be downloaded before the session closes.
Yes, and this is a common arrangement: human interpreters for the formal or binding proceedings, Glot for the wider coverage that budget could never extend to every delegation.
For treaty-level or legally binding wording, organisers generally retain certified human interpretation. Glot is used to provide comprehension at a scale that would otherwise be unaffordable.
Delegates open the session link or scan a QR code on their own device, with no app and no account to create. If your accreditation process requires joining to be restricted, raise it with us before the forum.
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EVERY DELEGATION.
EVERY LANGUAGE.
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