Romanian to Bulgarian, when it is only fifteen people
Fifteen people is too few for a hire of receivers and far too few for an interpreter's day rate, so rooms that size have gone untranslated for as long as anyone can remember. The cost here follows the minutes actually listened to, which is the first arrangement that makes a small audience worth serving at all.
Nothing here has a minimum audience
An FM system is a transmitter, a receiver for every listener, headsets to charge, hand out and collect, and somebody to look after all of it — a fixed cost that a room of fifteen can never spread thin enough. An interpreter is usually a half- or full-day minimum, whether the meeting runs two hours or seven. Here there is no equipment, no subscription and no per-seat licence: you buy credits, spend the minutes people actually listen, and keep the rest, because credits do not expire. A meeting nobody joined in Bulgarian is not charged for Bulgarian.
- No minimum audience and no per-seat licence
- No equipment to buy, rent or look after
- Unused credits never expire
- Set up on the morning, with nothing to book
- Minimum audience
- None
- Equipment
- None
- Unused credits
- Never expire
- Free on signup
- 30 credits
Where Romanian to Bulgarian comes up
Rooms too small for anything that has to be booked in advance.
Banat communities
Worth knowing before you try it: the Banat Bulgarians have written in Latin script since the 1740s and have their own literary standard, set at Vinga in the 1860s. What comes out here is standard Bulgarian in Cyrillic — closer for some readers than for others, and their call to make, not ours.
Cross-border meetings
Giurgiu and Ruse, a joint project meeting, one presenter and a room that is half from each side. Set it up the morning of, since there is nothing to book.
One-off events
A single afternoon almost never justifies an interpreter and equipment. Credits are spent a minute at a time and what is left waits for the next event instead of lapsing.
Common questions
Does it cost less because only a few people listen?
A little. A language is translated once and everybody who wants it joins that same stream, so you never pay per person for the translation itself, and for a room this size that is most of the bill. Each connected listener adds a small amount on top of it — barely visible at fifteen, and a real share of the figure once a language reaches a few dozen. What decides the bill first is how many languages are being listened to, and for how long.
Is a specific Bulgarian Bible translation used?
No. Only five languages have an edition named to the model and Bulgarian is not one; on a worship account the instruction for it is to reproduce a quoted verse in wording from a published translation rather than paraphrase it. In a community this size that usually matters less than the names do — the village, the family names, the way your congregation says a particular phrase — and those go in the glossary, where a hundred entries is far more than a small church ever needs.
Do we need to buy or rent anything at all?
No. The listener uses the phone and earbuds already in their pocket, and you use the audio your PA already carries. There is no transmitter, no receiver to hand out and collect, and nothing to charge overnight.
What if we only need it a few times a year?
That is the case it suits best. Credits do not expire, so the months in between cost nothing, and there is no subscription waiting for the next event. An organisation that broadcasts four afternoons a year pays for four afternoons a year.
Try it at the next small meeting
30 free credits, no card. Nothing to rent and nothing to book.