Multilingual meeting technology and services provider Interprefy has provided the Real-time Simultaneous Interpretation (RSI) support at the AI for Good Global Summit, providing human attendees with live captioning and speech translation using it’s own AI technology – Interprefy Aivia.
Speaking on how AI is used in his own business, Oddmund Braaten, CEO at Interprefy comments, “We use AI for our own advanced automated speech translation service – Interprefy Aivia – and spent years developing an AI-benchmarking platform that assesses the best AI solution for each language combination and use case, including business meetings, conferences, and live events.”
Released in April 2023, Interprefy Aivia can translate live speech from 45 languages and regional dialects into AI-generated audio and captions in 73 languages. This includes all official UN languages, almost all official EU languages and the most spoken Asian languages.
Oddmund continues, “Whilst the use of AI is advancing at a fast rate, it is still no substitute for professional interpreters in certain scenarios – especially in diplomatic conversations. A skilled linguist often outperforms AI as they are able to read the audience and provide nuanced localisation to accommodate sarcasm, humour, or idioms. But as demonstrated at the AI for Good summit, AI is becoming an extremely helpful tool to help make the conferencing world more inclusive, and make conversations accessible to participants from all over the world.”
Interprefy Aivia completes Interprefy’s end-to-end remote simultaneous and sign language interpretation offering by providing a cost-effective AI-powered real-time translation solution for scenarios like webinars, training, town halls, or conferences.
Organised by the International Telecommunication Union – the United Nations’ specialised agency for information and communication technology – the AI for Good Global Summit partners with 40 UN sister agencies and is co-convened with the government of Switzerland.
