Romanian to Hungarian, without saying everything twice
In a bilingual room the usual solution is to repeat: the speaker says it in Romanian, then again in Hungarian, and a ninety-minute meeting takes three hours. Everyone hears half of it twice and the other half in a language they follow with effort. Here both happen at once, and the meeting is the length it was meant to be.
Understanding a second language is work, and it adds up
Many people in Harghita, Covasna or Mureș can follow a Romanian discussion comfortably for ten minutes. Others cannot, and the shared problem is the ninetieth minute of a council session, or the part of a sermon that turns on one word, or a training day where the details are the whole point. Concentration is a budget and a second language spends it faster. Offering Hungarian does not say anybody failed to learn Romanian; it says the meeting is worth understanding all the way to the end.
- No repeating, so the meeting keeps its length
- Your own glossary of local names and terms
- Captions as well as audio, on the same broadcast
- A member of your organization can take the language instead
- Direction per broadcast
- One
- Bible translation named
- Not for Hungarian
- Glossary entries
- 100
- Free on signup
- 30 credits
Rooms this was built for
One person speaking to a mixed room — not two people in conversation.
Council meetings and public consultations
A long agenda in one language, followed in full by everyone present. It does not replace an official interpreter where the law requires one, and it is not a legal record.
Congregations that gave up on repeating
No published Hungarian Bible is named to the model, so put the verse references and the fixed phrases your congregation uses into the glossary — that is what keeps them steady week to week.
Training days and staff briefings
The terms that matter are usually yours, not the dictionary's. A glossary entry fixes how a product name or a local institution is rendered, and the model reads it when the session opens.
Common questions
Can we translate both ways on the same broadcast?
No, and it is better to know that before the day. A broadcast has one spoken language, fixed when you start it, and everything else is an output — it cannot be changed while the broadcast is running. If your meeting genuinely runs in both directions you have to stop and start a fresh one for the second half, which means a new code, so hand out your permanent link rather than the code if you are planning that.
Is a specific Hungarian Bible translation used?
No — five languages have an edition named to the model and Hungarian is not among them. On a worship account the instruction is wording from a published translation for a quoted verse rather than a fresh paraphrase. In a bilingual congregation this is worth a few minutes of somebody's time up front: the phrases the room has heard in Hungarian for decades are exactly what a general translation will render correctly and unfamiliarly, and the glossary is where you stop that happening.
Will people be offended that we are offering it?
Nobody has to use it and nobody can see who did. A listener opens a link and picks a language; no name is taken and the organiser sees a count, never a list of people. Somebody who would rather follow in Romanian simply does not open it.
What does it cost for a meeting where only a few people listen?
A language is metered only while somebody is actually listening to it, so a session nobody joined in Hungarian is not charged for Hungarian. The number of listeners moves the figure but not the shape of it: the translation is done once however many people join, and each listener adds a small amount on top. For a room of a few dozen the translation is still the larger part.
Try it at the next meeting
30 free credits, no card. Long enough to see whether the room actually uses it.