PONTAVOX is AI simultaneous interpretation for your hall: talks and panels live in up to four languages, about five seconds behind the speaker. Your guests listen on receivers with headphones, with no app and no booth.
The speaker talks into the lectern or headset microphone as usual. The mixing desk passes the sound to PONTAVOX, clean and without room echo. Nothing else is needed on stage.
PONTAVOX interprets continuously into each chosen language. With fluent speech the interpretation runs four to five seconds behind the original, on a panel five to six. Each language speaks with one fixed voice, female or male, from the first sentence to the last.
Other languages on request.
Choose a talk and a language. First you hear the speaker, then the interpretation comes in, just as on a receiver in the hall. You can switch language while the sample plays.
The figure under each language shows when the interpretation starts in this sample. Once the speech is under way it runs about five seconds behind.
Wir gliedern den Datensatz jetzt mal nach Zugtypen auf. Ich habe hier immer so Blasen gemalt, die Grösse entspricht quasi, wie viele Datenpunkte ich davon habe, und dann habe ich es eingefärbt nach der durchschnittlichen Verspätung, die ich gemessen habe. Rot ist besonders verspätet, Blau ist ziemlich pünktlich. Es fällt sofort der ICE auf mit durchschnittlich 10 Minuten Verspätung, aber auch der restliche Fernverkehr mit Intercity 6 Minuten, Eurocity gut 6 Minuten ist auch gut dabei. Wir sehen aber auch, dass es im Datensatz ein grosses Ungleichgewicht quasi gibt: Fast die Hälfte aller Fahrten findet tatsächlich von S-Bahnen statt, und die sind auch vergleichsweise pünktlich mit nur knapp 2 Minuten Verspätung im Durchschnitt. Was wir uns also wieder als Praxistipp irgendwie mitnehmen können, ist: Wir sollten mit dem Fernverkehr aufpassen; wenn es irgendwie geht, fahren wir lieber S-Bahn – kommt natürlich darauf an, wo man hin will.
Original sound: Theo Döllmann, “Wann klappt der Anschluss, wann nicht und wie sagt man Chaos vorher?”, 38C3, Hamburg 2024 (media.ccc.de), licence CC BY 4.0. Excerpt 7:58 to 8:59, overlaid in the player with the PONTAVOX interpretation of 15 October 2026. The speaker has no connection with the Eventforum. Machine interpretation, unedited, synthetic voice.
Every language goes down its own cable to its own radio transmitter. Guests pick the channel on the receiver and listen on headphones. No Wi-Fi, no app and no interpreting booth.
A failure that goes unnoticed is worse than one you can see. That is why PONTAVOX watches over every language, and a person sits at the desk.
250+automated checks before every new version
For your conference, general meeting or symposium. Hall, equipment, technician and interpretation from one source, with a quote within 12 hours. In Bern, PONTAVOX is only available at the Eventforum.
Book a trial in the hallDo you run halls or an interpreting system? PONTAVOX runs on a laptop and feeds your radio system, one transmitter per language. Talk to us and we will find a solution together.
Get in touchWith Swiss German on stage, debates with interruptions, negotiations and confidential content. PONTAVOX is not meant for classified content. We would rather tell you up front.
About five seconds: four to five with fluent speech, five to six with hesitant speech and on panels. PONTAVOX starts before the end of a sentence and waits when the speaker pauses.
Up to four at once, usually German, French, English and Italian. On stage, standard German or English. Other languages on request.
No. They receive a receiver with headphones at the entrance and choose the channel for their language.
Yes, if everyone has their own microphone and speaks one at a time. For lively debates with interruptions, interpreters are the better choice.
PONTAVOX notices the silence, rebuilds the language and catches up on what was missed. If that fails, a second path takes over. The technician sees every language.
During the event the speech is sent encrypted to a specialised speech service that listens, translates and speaks. Which service it is, where it operates and what it keeps for how long is set out in our data protection sheet, on request even before the quote.
A fraction of an interpreting team. The equipment with transmitters and receivers comes on top. For use in your own hall we will find a suitable solution together.
Yes. PONTAVOX interprets at real events at the Eventforum Bern. We test every new version on real speeches before we use it.
Tell us briefly what it is about. We will get back to you personally.