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Kanutus Events

The speaker was brilliant. Half the room didn't understand a word.

With Kanutus Events, everyone in the audience opens a link on their phone, picks a language and hears the talk in the speaker's own voice, about a second behind. No interpreter booth, no rented headsets, nothing to install.

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  • 26languages, each with a quality seal
  • ≈ 1 sbehind the speaker, even in a full hall
  • 0booths, receivers or installs
  • 1 linkfor the room and for whoever is at home

How it works

One voice on stage. Every phone in its own language.

The speaker doesn't change a thing. Each sentence is translated as soon as it ends and reaches every phone in the hall at the same time.

On stage

Ana

AnaPortuguês

Bom dia a todos, e obrigado por virem de tantos países.

≈ 1 sbehind the speaker, sentence by sentence

  • EnglishYou

    Good morning, and thank you for coming from so many countries.

    Hears in English

  • Español

    Buenos días a todos, y gracias por venir desde tantos países.

    Hears in Spanish

  • 日本語

    皆さん、おはようございます。多くの国からお越しいただき、ありがとうございます。

    Hears in Japanese

  • العربية

    صباح الخير، وشكرًا لكم على الحضور من بلدان كثيرة.

    Hears in Arabic

  1. Start the broadcast

    Whoever runs the stage opens the Kanutus app on the computer plugged into the sound desk and clicks Kanutus Events. Online event? Run it from a Kanutus Rooms room.

  2. Show the QR code

    Put it on the big screen, the badge or the programme. It opens the event page in the phone's browser: no app, no account.

  3. Everyone picks a language

    Each person chooses one of 26 languages and listens in the speaker's voice with their own earphones, or reads the captions.

Where it fits

Made for rooms where nobody shares the same language.

Rooms like plenaries, summits and international assemblies, and every stage where a good speaker deserves to be understood by everyone.

  • An empty parliamentary plenary hall with curved rows of wooden desks.

    Plenaries, summits and assemblies

    Delegations from many countries, one speaker at a time. Each delegate hears the floor in their own language.

  • A full auditorium at an international congress, with the speakers on stage.

    Congresses and talks

    The keynote speaks once. The hall listens in 26 languages, and the Q&A works both ways.

  • A university lecture hall full of students watching two projected slides.

    Universities

    Exchange students follow the lecture in their language, with captions to read along.

  • All-hands and company events

    The CEO speaks Portuguese. The teams in Berlin, Tokyo and Mexico City hear it in their language, in the room or at home.

Also: churches and services, trade fairs, training days, hybrid events.

Two women in a conference audience holding up their phones.

The back row

The back row hears it like the front row.

In a packed hall, the people at the back, the ones who arrived late and the ones following from home use the same link. Their phone, their earphones, their language.

  • Any recent phone browser, iPhone or Android
  • In the room or remote: the same link and the same delay
  • Captions for anyone who would rather read
  • Nothing to hand out, nothing to collect at the end

Booth or link

A booth for every language and a headset for every seat. Or one link.

Interpreting booths do a great job, but every language needs its own booth and its own team, and every seat needs a receiver. Here is the difference.

  • An interpreting booth with consoles and headsets, overlooking a meeting room.
    One booth per language.
  • A screen listing interpretation channels: one number per language.
    One channel number per language.
  • A pair of interpretation headphones lying on a reserved seat sign.
    One receiver per seat, handed out and collected.
Booth or linkBooths and receiversKanutus Events
LanguagesOne booth and one team of interpreters per language26 languages, each with a quality seal
EquipmentBooths, consoles, receivers and headsets for every seatThe audience's own phones and earphones
Set-upInstalled and tested before the doors openA link and a QR code
Remote audienceNeeds a separate streaming set-upSame link, in the room or at home
Whose voiceThe interpreter's voiceThe speaker's own voice, or captions

Signing a treaty or taking evidence in court? Keep your human interpreters. Kanutus can cover the other languages in the same room.

26 languages

Every language shows its own score.

We measure each language ourselves and show the result as a seal, so the organiser knows what to expect before the event, not during it.

  • Português94%
  • English95%
  • Español93%
  • Italiano95%
  • Français93%
  • Deutsch94%
  • Nederlands89%
  • Türkçe87%
  • 简体中文93%
  • 日本語92%
  • 한국어94%
  • Русский94%
  • Polski80%
  • Українська90%
  • Svenska87%
  • Tiếng Việt78%
  • Dansk88%
  • Norsk bokmål89%
  • हिन्दी86%
  • العربية86%
  • Ελληνικά79%
  • Bahasa Indonesia92%
  • Čeština86%
  • Suomi87%
  • Română85%
  • Magyar82%
  • Excellent 90–100
  • Good 82–89
  • Getting there < 82

What organisers ask us

01Does the audience need to install anything?

No. They scan the QR code or open the link in the phone's browser, pick a language and listen. No app and no account.

02How far behind the speaker is the translation?

About one second, sentence by sentence. It stays the same whether there are 50 people in the room or a full hall.

03Whose voice does the audience hear?

The speaker's own voice, recorded once in the Kanutus app. Anyone who prefers can switch to captions.

04What do we need on stage?

A computer with the Kanutus app, connected to the sound desk or to the speaker's microphone. Click Kanutus Events and show the QR code. For an online event, use a Kanutus Rooms room.

05Which languages?

Portuguese, English, Spanish, Italian, French, German, Dutch, Turkish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, Swedish, Vietnamese, Danish, Norwegian, Hindi, Arabic, Greek, Indonesian, Czech, Finnish, Romanian, and Hungarian. Each one with its quality seal.

06Can we use it in official or diplomatic meetings?

Kanutus Events was made for rooms like plenaries and summits. Translations are automatic and can contain mistakes, so for statements with legal weight keep a qualified interpreter involved. Tell us about your event and we will help you plan it.

Have an event coming up?

Tell us the date, the room and the languages. We'll help you set it up.

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Photo credits

Photos used under their licences, cropped and resized. The rooms shown are examples; they are not Kanutus customers and do not endorse Kanutus.