Product thinking, the economics of translation, and how to run multilingual events. Written by the team building BabelCast: live captions and translated voice in dozens of languages, billed by the source-hour, with free listeners.
Charging by the head made sense for phone lines and interpreter headsets. For software broadcasting to any number of listeners, it just punishes success. Here’s how we think about it instead.
They’re not the same feature, and your audience often wants both. A quick guide.
A practical setup: one phone, a QR in the bulletin, and every language covered.
Drop a browser source in, size it, and you’re live on the big screen.
Billed by the source-hour, with a 50% live-session floor. Here’s exactly how the meter works.
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