SET UP IN MINUTES
A laptop or a phone as the microphone is enough. There is nothing to book weeks ahead, which makes it realistic for a recurring committee, not just a flagship event.
International meetings
REAL-TIME MEETING
TRANSLATION
Board meetings, negotiations and institutional sessions where each participant speaks their own language and is understood in real time.
Book a demoTHE HIDDEN COST OF MEETING IN A SECOND LANGUAGE
In a small meeting, the language barrier does not look like a barrier. Everyone agrees to work in English, the meeting happens, minutes get written. What is lost is invisible: the participant who had the sharpest objection but not the vocabulary to make it land, the nuance dropped because it was easier to simplify, the agreement that felt clear in the room and turns out to mean two different things.
Booking an interpreter for a two-hour board meeting is rarely proportionate, and for a recurring weekly committee it is simply not viable. So teams keep absorbing the cost in misunderstandings and rework.
Glot fits meetings because it needs nothing but a microphone. Each participant speaks their own language and reads or hears the others in theirs, which removes the quiet penalty paid by whoever is furthest from the working language.
SIZED FOR THE ROOM, NOT THE STAGE
NOTHING IS STORED
Audio is processed in real time and nothing is retained at the end of the session: no audio file, no transcription, no participant data. That matters when the agenda is an acquisition or a disciplinary matter.
A WRITTEN RECAP
At the end of the session Glot produces a written recap you can download, so minutes are drafted from what was actually said rather than from memory.
HOW MEETING TRANSLATION WORKS
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Open a session
Create the session, pick the languages around the table and share the link with participants. No hardware and no facilitator required.
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Everyone joins on their own device
Each participant opens the link on a phone or laptop and selects the language they want to follow, including remote attendees.
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Talk normally
Participants speak their own language. The others follow live in any of 60+ languages, with captions on screen and voice in their ear if they prefer to listen.
WHY MEETINGS FALL BETWEEN THE OPTIONS
Meetings are too small to justify interpreting and too important to leave to approximation. That gap is where most cross-border business actually happens.
| Approach | Strength | Limitation |
|---|---|---|
| Everyone uses English | No cost, no setup | The least fluent participant contributes least, regardless of how much they know |
| Hire an interpreter | Accurate, human | Rarely proportionate for two hours, and impossible for a weekly committee |
| Consecutive interpreting | Cheap, no equipment | Doubles the length of every meeting, so agendas get cut |
| Generic meeting transcription | Good notes | English-centric, and it does not help anyone understand in the room, in real time |
| Glot | Everyone uses their own language, live | Needs a decent microphone; heavy crosstalk remains hard for any system |
A BOARD MEETING THAT ACTUALLY DEBATES
A supervisory board of nine people meets monthly: four French, three German, one Italian, one Spanish. The working language is English, and no one on the board is a native speaker.
The visible outcome is that meetings finish on time. The invisible one is that objections get simplified, the Italian member stops pushing back after the second attempt, and a decision recorded as unanimous was in fact never fully argued.
With Glot, each member speaks the language they think in. The Italian member makes the objection at full precision, the German members answer in German, and the disagreement happens in the room rather than in the follow-up emails. A written recap can be downloaded at the end of the session, so the minutes reflect what was said instead of what the secretary understood.
GETTING GOOD MEETING TRANSLATION IN A SMALL ROOM
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One microphone that everyone uses
A single good microphone in the middle of the table beats several laptop microphones competing with each other. This is the main quality lever in a meeting room.
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Speak in turns
Real debate overlaps, and heavy crosstalk is hard for any system, human or automatic. A chair who manages turns will get noticeably better output.
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Declare your vocabulary
Entity names, project codenames and deal terminology should be provided in advance, especially in negotiations where a mistranslated term has consequences.
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Decide who downloads the recap
The written recap is produced at the end of the session and is sensitive by nature. Agree who downloads it and who receives it before the meeting, not after.
COMMON QUESTIONS
Yes. There is no minimum audience. A recurring committee of four is a very common use, precisely because hiring interpreters at that scale is not realistic.
Yes. Glot handles multiple source languages in one session, so a French, a German and an Arabic speaker can each use their own language and follow the others.
Audio is processed in real time and Glot retains zero data: at the end of the session there is no audio file, no transcription and no participant data left. There is nothing stored to leak later, which is the point of the architecture.
Real debate is messy, and Glot is built for live speech rather than clean dictation. Very heavy crosstalk is still hard for any system, so a single active microphone gives the best result.
Glot produces a written recap you can download at the end of the session. Download it before closing the session, because nothing is retained afterwards by design.
Yes. Remote participants join the same session on their own device, so a hybrid committee works the same way as a meeting where everyone is around the table.
Specialist vocabulary is handled far better with a glossary supplied in advance. For legally binding wording, treat the output as working comprehension rather than a certified translation.
Nothing is kept. Glot processes audio in real time and retains zero data, so there is no recording, transcription or participant data left once the session ends. For meetings covering acquisitions, litigation or personnel decisions, there is simply nothing stored to delete.
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EVERYONE SPEAKS.
EVERYONE FOLLOWS.
Book a 20-minute demo and try it on the agenda of your next committee.