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I was asked in the House of Worship if there is a way to have a system to have automated translation so we are not limited to an interpreter. What would you suggest for any tool or software?

ASKED BY · Eduardo Augustine · PANAMA CITY · 16 SEP 2026 · ▶ 00:47:26

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Jeff CohenPANELIST

Google Meet offers real-time text translation and spoken word audio translation (still limited languages); audio can be run as a guest into a meeting and displays translated text or provides translated audio with minimal delay mimicking UN interpreter style.

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47:26iPhones and AirPods. Jeff Cohen? Yeah, I think I've mentioned this before, but Google Meet is really doing some fascinating things with this. And so it's not clear if this is just to have up on a screen in there or, you know, are you live streaming out to an audience. But you can do either one with this. So it does real-time text translation, you know, so you run the audio as a guest into a Google Meet meeting.

47:59And you can, you know, whoever's on the other end. So, for instance, if you're setting up a screen, you just have that. You choose whatever language you'd like to show. If you have an online audience, everyone can select their language and get it translated. And now the other thing I've mentioned, which would be fascinating for this, they only have a few languages so far, but they also do spoken word audio translation.

48:26So in other words, the person is speaking in English and for a handful of languages right now, the person on the other end will hear that person speaking in their language and with their voice and with a minimal delay. In fact, they've really made it sound like how it would work in the UN with a translator. You hear the person start to speak first in their language, and then a second or two later

48:51that fades down, and then you hear the translated voice. But in this case, it sounds like them. And they're expanding the number of languages that will do that as well. Alexander, let's go to the next question. All right. Next up from Stefan Fischer in Wurzburg, Germany. Do you use professional near-field monitors at your workspace, even if you don't do real mixing, just for the sake of having good sound, or do you prefer headphones?

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