Live translation for webinar organisers
Most webinar translation is sold in prepaid hour blocks, through a sales call, on an annual contract. That works if you run four conferences a year and can forecast the hours. It works badly if you announced Thursday's session on Tuesday.
What usually goes wrong
- The platform does less than assumed. Zoom translates to captions only — no translated audio. Teams Interpreter is not available in webinars or town halls at all. Google Meet supports one language pair per meeting, with a 90-minute cap.
- The recording loses the translation. Microsoft's own documentation states that Teams recordings capture only the original meeting audio. For a session most people watch afterwards, that serves the smaller half of the audience.
- The hours expire. Event vendors sell 10 to 50-hour minimums with 12-month expiry and no rollover. Irregular usage pays for hours it never uses.
What we do differently
- Price published per minute. No sales call to find out what it costs.
- Credits that never expire. An unused hour is still there next quarter.
- No per-language tariff. A session in four languages is not four times a session in one.
When you should not choose us
If you are running a 5,000-person congress with simultaneous interpreters and a procurement process that expects SOC 2 and ISO 27001, an established event vendor is the right answer and we will say so. If your content is legally binding, hire a human interpreter. We serve the sessions that currently happen in one language because booking interpreters for them was never realistic.
Where to start
- How to run a multilingual webinar
- Webinar software with live translation, compared honestly
- Do I need an interpreter for my webinar?
Try it on a real session — no contract, no minimum.