Help your global audiences get the most out of your events by enabling them to understand the content and participate no matter what language presenters use.

Translate Your Live Events in Real Time

Make your virtual event, web conference, or team meeting multilingual with Lionbridge’s translation and localization services for live events.

Digital transformation has changed the way we communicate privately and professionally. Now, most live meetings are hybrid — offered both on-site and remotely via the internet. This scenario creates opportunities to extend your reach to global audiences. To achieve global participation, you need to enable attendees to understand the content even when the presenter speaks a different language than they speak. Consider adding coverage in more languages by using interpretation services, providing live captioning, and translating and localizing event materials and presentations.

When To Use Interpretation and Translation Services for Live Events

Use live event services to facilitate communications during many types of live events.

Virtual meetings

Virtual meetings that use one of the many available communications platforms, such as Zoom, and Microsoft Teams, are frequently translated automatically. Built-in captioning tools quickly and easily enable attendees to understand one another in any language they speak. These tools enhance the value global teams get out of virtual meetings. However, automated captioning tools do not always handle complex topics or high-stakes meetings well. In these cases, you may be better off using remote video interpretation or remote simultaneous interpretation services.

Web conferences

Web conferences have become a highly popular way to hold large events. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, live web conferences are commonly being held in a hybrid manner, in which a limited number of onsite attendees blend with online attendees.

Webinars and online training

Webinars are mini live events. They are frequently used to make product presentations, hold workshops, and conduct training sessions. They usually have a few presenters and an audience that actively participates.

Pre-event and post-event collateral

Pre-event and post-event collateral are important elements of online events. You may produce a variety of materials, including presentations, documents, handouts, and session recordings that audiences view at their convenience. To make your event multilingual, these pre-event and post-event materials need to be translated and localized into the languages your attendees speak. This effort will drive post-event engagement and enable people who could not attend your event to still get something out of it.

Lionbridge Serves as Global Interpretation Provider for ON24®

When virtual event platform company ON24 executes virtual events, it enlists Lionbridge for multilingual translations. As a global interpretation provider for ON24, Lionbridge ensures that webinar participants can understand the content no matter what language they speak.

Lionbridge Translation and Localization Services for Live Events

Lionbridge offers an array of live event services to make your virtual event multilingual and attract global attendees. Select from the following services:

On-site simultaneous and consecutive interpretations

On-site, real-time interpretation services are a great option when executing large onsite conferences. Interpretation teams come to your event in person to either provide simultaneous interpretations or consecutive interpretations. During simultaneous interpretations, the interpreter makes real-time translations at the same time the speaker talks. During consecutive interpretations, the interpreter provides real-time translations while the speaker pauses. Lionbridge selects the best interpreters for your event, makes travel arrangements, and provides technical setups to ensure a smooth and successful event.

Video Remote Interpretations and Remote Simultaneous Interpretations

Video Remote Interpretation (VRI) and Remote Simultaneous Interpretation (RSI) are like on-site, real-time interpretations, except services are provided remotely. Advanced communication technology makes these services possible. Remote services enable Lionbridge to source interpreters from any place in the world. Remote delivery reduces the complexity of your onsite event and decreases costs. These services are appropriate for on-site, online, and hybrid events.

Over-the-phone interpretations & Smaⁱrt Bridge™

Over-the-phone interpretation involves professional interpreters delivering their services via phone. Since these interpreters are on standby, this is a good option when you need unplanned, instantaneous interpretations. It is often used by company call centers to drive better customer experiences. Lionbridge’s Smaⁱrt Bridge platform enables you to manage your account and scale the use of over-the-phone interpretation services when necessary.

Live captioning

Live captioning provides written text as people speak. This service works well for web conferences, webinars, and live streams. A lot of conferencing technologies have automated live caption technology built into their platform. If you require better quality than what most of these technologies provide, rely on Lionbridge to deliver a solution tailored to your needs.

Translation and localization services

Translation and localization services enable your multilingual attendees to understand your event collateral. It has never been easier to translate and localize your presentations, documents, handouts, and event recordings into many languages.

Video transcription and subtitling

Transcription and subtitling services extend your video’s reach. Transcription enables viewers to see a printed version of spoken words on the screen in the video’s originating language. Subtitling involves translating the transcript into additional languages to enable the viewer to see words on the screen in their native tongue. Transcribing and adding multilingual subtitles to your video is a cost-effective way to reach audiences you would otherwise miss. More than 92% of people watch videos on mute. Adding a transcript allows them to experience your video when playing sound is not possible or convenient. Use these services for videos you plan to show before, during, and after your live events and for training videos.

Why Use Lionbridge’s Interpretation and Translation Services for Your Live Events?

If you’re thinking about using live event services, you may be concerned about its costs or complexity. You’ll get a great return on your investment by expanding your reach globally. And Lionbridge makes it easy to use these services. Here’s why you should trust Lionbridge:

Coverage for all your events

Extend the reach of your multilingual live events and target a larger audience with minimal additional costs.

Simplicity

Simplify the delivery of your multilingual events so you can focus on your content. Professional interpreting services are critical for a successful outcome.

Support for all your needs

Get support for all your needs, including real-time audio and video streams and pre-event and post-event presentations, documents, and graphic materials.

All languages

Leverage Lionbridge’s topnotch interpretation and translation community to translate your event into any language. Our vast community of interpreters and translators can handle any language pair and topic to deliver an outstanding multilingual experience to your audience.

Platform agnostic

Get support for a wide range of platforms, including the top meeting, conferencing, and interpretation platforms. Our partnerships with leading event technology and services companies enable us to support your live event in any environment.

Experts in interpretations and translation

Benefit from Lionbridge’s 25+ years of interpretation and translation experience to enable you to execute your multilingual live events flawlessly.

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Most Frequently Asked Questions

Here are some of the most frequently asked questions about live event services.

What is the difference between consecutive and simultaneous interpretation?

During consecutive interpretation, the speaker pauses after every two or three sentences to allow the interpreter to interpret what was just said. During simultaneous interpretation, the speaker does not pause for the interpreter and instead speaks continuously. A simultaneous interpreter has specialized training and interprets a few words, a phrase, or a sentence right after the speaker has said it. Simultaneous interpretation requires the utmost concentration. Typically, interpreters work in teams of two and regularly take turns.

How can I add live captions to my event?

Many conferencing technologies — such as Microsoft Teams live event translation — offer automated live captions. However, these technologies typically have limitations in quality. Lionbridge can provide a higher-quality solution tailored to your needs. By combining live captions with our best-of-breed Machine Translation technology, we can produce better-quality captions and drive brand voice consistency.

How should I pick an interpretation service?

Select an interpretation service provider that can:

Access the best interpreters who have expertise in every conceivable language pair and domain

Provide a multidisciplinary team that can be integrated into the event management process to ensure a seamless process

Draw upon years of experience to ensure the highest quality execution

With 25+ years of experience, Lionbridge is a leader in interpretation services. That’s why some of the most prestigious global live event organizers count on us to meet the needs of their multilingual attendees.

When should I use interpretation services for live events?

Use these services when you want to make your event multilingual, so you can attract a global audience and enable that audience to participate fully in the event. Use interpretation services for virtual live meetings, conferences, eLearning, and online training.

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Interpretation, Captioning, Translation, and Localization Services for Live Events

Translate Your Live Events in Real Time

Make your virtual event, web conference, or team meeting multilingual with Lionbridge’s translation and localization services for live events.

When To Use Interpretation and Translation Services for Live Events

Virtual meetings

Web conferences

Webinars and online training

Pre-event and post-event collateral

Lionbridge Serves as Global Interpretation Provider for ON24®

Lionbridge Translation and Localization Services for Live Events

On-site simultaneous and consecutive interpretations

Video Remote Interpretations and Remote Simultaneous Interpretations

Over-the-phone interpretations & Smaⁱrt Bridge™

Live captioning

Translation and localization services

Video transcription and subtitling

Why Use Lionbridge’s Interpretation and Translation Services for Your Live Events?

Coverage for all your events

Simplicity

Support for all your needs

All languages

Platform agnostic

Experts in interpretations and translation

Choosing the Right Interpretation Service

Review Some of the Most Engaging Content

The Future of Interpretation Services

5 Key Differences Between Interpretation and Translation

How to Get the Best Interpretation for Your Legal Practice

Interpretation Services for Medicare

Flawless Execution of Interpretation Services

Most Frequently Asked Questions

What is the difference between consecutive and simultaneous interpretation?

How can I add live captions to my event?

How should I pick an interpretation service?

When should I use interpretation services for live events?

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