What the best way to present in multiple languages?

[yashasolutions]

I am now working on planning an event in multiple languages with live translations.

The live translation part is sorted but there are slides to be presented.

Slides are being translated but what would be the best way to get people to follow the slides in their languages?

Is there a way to maybe use breakout rooms or maybe some 3rd party tool that can be used for this?

Any suggestoins how to approach this issue?

[Ray_Harwood]

Welcome to the Zoom Community, @yashasolutions.

As you’ve discovered, Zoom has good support for multiple language audio, but multiple language Screen Sharing presents a very different technical issue.

My suggestions would depend somewhat on your audience.

• How many different languages are needed for your PowerPoint?
• Are there multiple sessions where this needs to be done, or just a single session?
• Is simultaneous, live presentation a requirement?
• Could your material be prerecorded and edited for playback?

[yashasolutions]

Thanks @Ray_Harwood 

We are talking more than 10 languages.

There will be 1 session a week, and yes it is live.

The material cannot be pre-recorded.

I was thinking maybe someone has got this issue before and maybe found a workaround...

[Ray_Harwood · Accepted solution]

Hi, @yashasolutions.  Thanks for the info. 

I don’t see any way to use a single Zoom session to accomplish this effectively and efficiently.

Consider this: what about having one meeting per language? Your interpreters could host the meeting with their language and display the slides in their language.  They would need the ability to join the main presentation, to hear the speaker and watch their presentation, and then speak into their own meeting and control their slides. Unfortunately this wouldn’t provide the usual low-volume audio of the original speaker, which is normally provided by the normal interpretation feature in a single meeting, but it would be easiest for non-technical attendees. 

Another approach would involve using Zoom’s built-in interpretation feature for audio, but have each interpreter use something like OBS (free software) to take a PowerPoint in their computer and display that in their camera feed to Zoom. This would be problematic for a Webinar, but could work for a Meeting if attendees were able to Pin the video of the selected language speaker on their screen.

Both approaches would require a good bit of testing, documentation, and training, but might be with the effort if you’re going to do this on a long term basis. 

[yashasolutions]

the idea with OBS and pinned video is brilliant! It doesn't even need to be on the translators to do that, we could have a team dedicated to this. It would be perfect