When to choose which
- Choose AI live translation for keynotes, panels and presentations where the audience needs three to six languages: one setup per stage covers them all.
- Choose human interpreters for closed-door negotiations, legal, medical or diplomatic sessions where every word carries weight.
- Use both when a VIP track needs interpreters and the wider audience needs many languages on their phones.
Side by side
| AI-Deate Live | Interpreters & booths | |
|---|---|---|
| Languages | Up to six per event from one setup | One interpreter team per language |
| Equipment | Guests use their own phones | Booths, receivers and headsets to hand out |
| Screens & stream | Captions on the big screen and livestream included | Usually a separate captioning service |
| Transcripts | Every session in every language | Usually not included |
| Nuance | Very good for talks and panels; names loaded in advance | Best for sensitive negotiation and diplomacy |
When AI live translation is the better fit
- Conferences, summits and award shows where the audience needs three to six languages, since one setup covers up to six languages per stage instead of one interpreter team per language.
- Events that also need live captions on the big screen or in a livestream, and transcripts of every session afterwards.
- Multi-room programmes where a booth and receivers in every room are not practical. Guests use their own phones, up to 500 per event.
When to keep human interpreters
For closed-door negotiations, legal or medical settings, and diplomatic events where every word carries weight, a professional interpreter is still the right choice. Interpreters handle humour, irony and sensitive wording with judgement no AI matches today, and usually work in pairs per language. Can both work at the same event? Yes. A common setup is interpreters for a VIP, press or bilateral track and AI translation for the wider audience, with our engineer and the interpretation team taking separate feeds from the same mixing console.
Planning a multilingual programme? See conference and event translation, or how it works in a city such as Doha or Tokyo.