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Overview

From October 23-26, 2024, CBMC (Christian Business Men's Connection)  hosted its Asia Pacific Convention at the Galaxy International Convention Centre in Macau, China. This significant event brought together Christian business leaders from across the globe, requiring seamless communication across multiple languages to ensure an inclusive and engaging experience. CBMC sought a scalable and budget-friendly solution to bridge communication barriers for attendees from diverse linguistic backgrounds.

The Challenge

The need for AI Speech Translation Solutions 

CBMC faced the challenge of getting AI speech translation solutions for a wide range of languages within a limited budget. With attendees representing over 20 countries, the event required speech translation from Chinese and English into Thai, Korean, Vietnamese, and Khmer. The high cost of traditional simultaneous interpretation for these language combinations posed a significant hurdle for the non-profit organisation. Other than that, the organisation needed clear, accurate, and accessible translation to facilitate meaningful engagement with the event’s content. 

The Solution

Interprefy provided CBMC with their cost-effective, secure, scalable, and innovative solution Interprefy AI, encompassing live captions and subtitles and AI speech translation, combined with the Audience Mode feature of the Interprefy mobile app. This allowed attendees to access real-time voice translations directly on their smartphones, eliminating the need for expensive headsets or dedicated devices. This solution addressed CBMC's budgetary constraints while delivering high-quality, real-time speech translation. 

Implementation

From the initial contact on August 22, 2024, through multiple emails and meetings withInterprefy’s Sales Leaders leading up to the event on October 19, 2024, Interprefy supported and closely collaborated with CBMC. Discussions focused on the convention's specific translation needs, budget considerations, and proposal approvals. Interprefy's team worked diligently to tailor the solution to CBMC's unique requirements. The user-friendly Interprefymobile app made it easy for attendees to select their preferred language and access real-time speech translation throughout the convention. 

Results

Interprefy proved instrumental in creating a truly global and unified experience for CBMC's Asia Pacific Convention. Their immaculate real-time speech translation facilitated smooth communication and fostered a strong sense of inclusivity among diverse attendees. A particularly noteworthy success story involved the Mongolian delegation, whose language needs had not been pre-configured in advance. Interprefy’s flexible platform allowed for the quick addition of Mongolian as a supported language, ensuring the delegation's full participation and enriching their convention experience. 

Our partnership with Interprefy was key to creating a truly global and unified experience. Collaboration with Interprefy quickly adapted, providing instant translation to Mongolian and enabling full participation.This level of accessibility was invaluable, and it wouldn't have been possible without Interprefy.- Jonathan Li, Event Organizer, CBMC

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Overview

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For this event, like in over 30 other in-person, hybrid and virtual events since 2019, ISA turned to Interprefy to enable remote simultaneous interpretation.

The Challenge

A venue without the technical setup 

Because the Conference happened during a high-level week in New York, ISA had venue issues which meant a new venue had to be found last minute for the first day of the event.  The available venue, however, happened to lack any technical setup. 

Though accustomed to working together, ISA and Interprefy found themselves just a few days away from the start of the event with an added challenge to resolve: the lack of even internet connection at the event venue.

The Approach

Leveraging an international network of professional AV providers

ISA informed Interprefy about the lack of technology resources at the venue and the Interprefy Team jumped on board to help solve the situation. At that point, it was a matter of either finding the technological setup and enabling an internet connection or calling the event off. 

The Interprefy Team searched among their trusted network of audiovisual providers in the area and secured the assistance of Mainline AV International. 

A technician from Mainline AV International travelled to the event venue on the same day of the event and took care of everything in-person.

Photo Credit: International Seabed Authority. A camera was set up at the front of the room to capture the delegates (photo above) and another one at the back of the room to film the speakers and presentation (photo below). The technician sourced by Interprefy ensured that the feeds remained stable and of the highest quality at all times so that the remote interpreters, remote attendees, and in-person attendees could follow seamlessly. 

The Outcome

The AV team sourced by Interprefy managed all the cabling, the cameras, the internet and the remote simultaneous interpretation set-up onsite and ensured the event could take place.

Additionally, having an Interprefy partner already trained in the ins and outs of remote simultaneous interpretation on-site meant that the interpretation streams were easily set up and the in-person and remote attendees could follow the Conference successfully in the language of their choice. 

Thanks to the Interprefy Team who did their magic and provided us with literally everything, from the internet access, to equipment, to the person to support us on-site, sort of last minute, we could run the Conference successfully.- Katharina Serrano, Programme Management Officer at ISA

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