We live in a wonderfully multicultural and multilingual world.

The technology of the digital space can enable you to reach communities and audiences in their own language to fully engage them with your content, with your organization, and with your event.

We are going to share 4 quick options to translate spoken languages during a live virtual summit, virtual fundraiser or any Happily virtual event that you are looking to host.

Quick note: We have a specific blog post about how to integrate an American Sign Language translation into a virtual event that you can read here, as it is a little different.

1. Satellite Zoom Rooms per Language

Language groups will each have their own Zoom link in which the broadcast will be streamed, and their language will be translated onto that stream.

This is ideal for translating a live broadcast into multiple languages and is a good way to bring niche-communities or cultural groups together within your audience and allow them to connect with each other. However, if you prefer to keep your community altogether in order to connect across languages, this may not be the option for you.

2. Live Captioning on Broadcast

You can have the translation captioned live onto the stream. This is an ideal option for translating your event into just 1 other language.

3. Widget Plug In

We can integrate an automated translation widget into the streaming platform that can provide captions in 50 languages. Attendees can simply select which language they would like the captions to be provided in.

We used this technology in the Survivor’s Summit 2020 which you can read more about in this case study.

Image from the 2020 Survivor’s Summit.

4. Audio Translations with Zoom’s Interpretation Feature

Zoom enables different audio channels to be created for language translations. The human interpreters on the other end then have their voice (and the translation) fed into that audio channel. The attendees can select which available language they would like to hear the event in, with the option to mute the original audio, or to hear it in a lower volume with their chosen language overlayed.

Image: Zoom's Interpretation Feature

Every Happily virtual event is unique and translation requirements vary.

Let’s chat about your upcoming event and how together we can craft a custom language translation method that works best for you.