AI Voice Translation ✨

With our AI Voice Translation feature, you can provide speech-to-speech translation for live events in a very simple, cost-effective and flexible way. We currently offer about 30 languages. You find the list below.

AI Voice Translation is a pay-as-you go service you can book online additionally to your LiveVoice BASIC or PRO listener plan (day plan or subscription). It is billed by minute and invoiced once a week. You find the pricing here.

Before you pay, you can try out the AI Services (AI Subtitles and AI Voice Translation) up to 20 minutes for free. Once you have used up the free minutes, you will only be able to use AI Services if you have an active subscription or day plan.

☝️ Setting the expectation right. As there are very different expectations how good AI already is, we want to make clear: You will still get the best live translation from human interpreters. Also, the speed will be faster with human interpretation, because AI will need to wait until a sentence is finished until it can actually start translating. This can lead to longer pauses when speakers use very long sentences for example. We recommend you try it out and hear for yourself, if AI or human interpreters are the right choice for your occasion. LiveVoice offers both.

Find out about the differences between AI Translation vs. Human interpreters in this article here.

How to start AI Voice Translation:

Step 1: Create event and channels

Set up your event and audio channels, the same way as you would with an event with human interpreters.

You will need one channel for the original audio (also known as “Floor” channel) and at least one translation channel.

This is how it could look like:

Step 2: Enable and set up AI Voice Translation

Now you go to the channel setting of each translation channel.

a. Turn the toggle on

b. Define the source channel and language, and the translated language You can also choose if it should be a male or female voice.

c. Save (you will be asked to check the box that you have understood AI features are billed by minute, additionally to your listeners plan)

d. Do the same for each translation channel you want.

Step 3: Start Original Audio (Floor) channel

a. Connect audio: Connect audio mixing console to a laptop or PC (audio cable or USB, depending on your equipment).

b. Open LiveVoice: Open LiveVoice on the computer browser (open www.livevoice.io and enter the speaker code of the floor channel; we recommend Chrome as browser)

c. Start Streaming: Click “Start” in the LiveVoice Lobby. The interface will turn orange, and you will see the mic level working. 

Step 4: Start AI Voice for each translation channel

Once you want to start the translation, click the “Start AI Voice” button at each channel you want translation to work.

You will be asked if you want to set a daily runtime limit for this channel before you actually start. The reason is that we want you to be safe not to forget turning the feature off, being billed for minutes you did not intend to use the feature. Of course, you can set the limit to “unlimited” if you do not want to set a limit.

❗️ Note: You need to turn off AI features when you are done by clicking stop. Closing the web browser or computer will not stop AI features. You will be billed by minute for each channel running, so make sure when you are done to stop the AI Voice again. The daily runtime limit is an additional safety net. The time using AI features and turning them off again is your responsibility.

BILLING NOTES:

Costs depend on the time you are using the feature. It will be billed by minute. Once a week you will get the invoice for all used minutes within that week.

Minutes start counting as soon as you click “Start AI Voice” and will end when you click stop.

Supported Languages