If you’re working in a global environment, chances that you face multilingual meetings are close to 100%. From external meetings with clients, partners, investors, and vendors, to internal meetings like all-hands or town halls, someone is always speaking in a language you don’t understand.
Some people think about bringing a human interpreter. But it’s not a flexible solution. Human resources are limited and therefore expensive.
Some think about using machine translation. But it’s often not contextually accurate.
If you’re a tech optimist, you’ve probably thought about AI translation. But here’s the real problem…
How do you share it with other people?
Zoom, Teams, Google Meet. All of them have native translation features. People often complain that translation is too literal and doesn’t read into what was said before, which leads to loss of meaning. Also, only certain subscribers get access, so other participants don’t get translation at all.
The frustrating part is this:
If multilingual meetings happen daily internally, it makes sense to subscribe. But most multilingual meetings happen occasionally with different external partners. It’s hard to force them to subscribe to a plan or even create an account just for one meeting.
To date, JotMe has had over 60,000 users from all over the world. Users who interact with me and our customer support have told us all the concerns I laid out above.
This month, we solved all of it with one simple solution.
Sharing contextual live AI translation with a URL.
Participants no longer need to download anything or create an account. They can simply join the AI live translation from their computer, tablet, or even their mobile phone.
In this blog, I’ll walk you through how to set this up.
Alternatively, you can watch YouTube tutorial on how to share AI live translation with a URL.
First, as a host, you’ll need to download the JotMe desktop application. It’s free to download and easy to get started from our website: https://www.jotme.io.
Second, open the Share Translation menu and click “With URL”. You can share this URL with anyone in the world. There’s no limitation on who can access it.
However, be aware:
The more people you share it with, the more translation minutes you consume, because you’re sharing your own translation minutes. More participants can also slightly increase latency. So make sure you have enough translation minutes before starting the meeting, multiplied by the number of participants. You don’t want your translation to stop during an important discussion.
When participants open the link, they’ll see:
Once they enter, they immediately get live AI translation using your translation minutes per participant.
No installation.
No account creation.
No subscription required.
Just open the link and join.
After the meeting, the meeting notes are generated with combined transcription.
What does that mean?
All transcripts generated during the meeting, even if shared live, are combined into one record.
For example:
You’ll see English, Korean, and Spanish transcription combined in your meeting notes record.
Nothing gets lost.
This is how seamless it is to share contextual live AI translation. You can use this across industries like IT, manufacturing, e-commerce, logistics, law, healthcare, universities, and more. And for use cases ranging from client meetings, partner meetings, investor meetings, webinars, to in-person conferences.
We are GDPR compliant. We also have a seamless Team plan with an admin dashboard for minute allocation and control, so global companies and teams can be onboarded easily. For enterprise inquiries or feedback, you can always reach out: hey@jotme.io.
Till next blog, see you then!
.avif){kind=small}