Thanks Marion,
I¡¯ll let you know how it goes when we get a chance to try out the Language Interpretation Module - I may do the Webinar add on plan - which is around 40GBP a month.
I haven¡¯t tried toasty - and ¡®a bit buggy¡¯ makes me quite hesitant to use with a bunch of humanitarians who are in need of calmness - so let me know I you have any better luck with.
And will check out interprefy as well. Do let me know how you get on if you try it?
Cheers,
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On 31 Mar 2020, at 13:54, Maz <
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Hi Dirk,?
Following with interest as we are keen to see how the functionality works, has anyone had positive feedback from Zoom, on their site this is needed as a prerequisite:
- Business, Education, or Enterprise Account; or?Webinar add-on plan
- Zoom Desktop Client
- Windows:?4.5.3261.0825?or higher
- macOS: 4.5.3261.0825?or higher
- Zoom Mobile App
- Android: 4.5.3261.0825 or higher
- iOS: 4.5.0 (3261.0825) or higher
with a minimum host of 10 each with a monthly fee.?
how it works sounds really great.
Another one you could try and see whether there is an API for zoom and toasty.ai . We tested toasty this morning, a bit buggy but fabulous grouping and differentiation algorithms in the back end that might solve the how to cluster / group with those who are there (as opposed to those that registered but didn¡¯t manage to join).
hope this helps. there is another one called interprefy, but I struggle to reach them too, I think they are all inundated with requests and calls for help and input.?
if you find anything else on your side please share. thank you.
best wishes
marion
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On 31 Mar 2020, at 12:56, Dirk Slater <
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Hello,
I just subscribed to the list over the weekend and am already heartened by the amount of knowledge being shared here and am currently facing a major challenge which I¡¯m hoping I can get some advice/wisdom on.
Basically, I just want to know if people have been running sessions making use of translators/interpreters. If so what platforms have you used to support this? In particular getting different audio channels running with different languages for large group discussions and then organising small group breakouts based on participants languages?
The context:
I¡¯ve been co-hosting a series of workshops for the Red Cross/Red Crescent Society on sharing innovative responses across the national societies. A major goal is to get some real sharing across regions that won¡¯t be siloed by language. ?We¡¯ve been running a couple a week over the last few weeks and are getting an enormous response - upwards of 80 participants - and it¡¯s been a blessing to be able to break people up easily in small groups on the fly.
However, we ran into a couple of bumps on our last call when we tried to expand beyond English and also include Spanish Language speakers. We had nearly 130 participants and had a major struggle just getting them into breakout rooms where everyone spoke the same language - we had tried to get people to register in advance and then assign them breakout groups - but as people logged in, we realised many of the people that had pre-registered didn¡¯t show up and we had lots of people that hadn¡¯t registered wanting to participate. ?Our quick workaround was to get people to rename themselves with either EN or ES so we could manually organise the room quickly. ?
When we are in large group, we had translation happening while people were speaking, so one or two sentences, translation, then one or two sentences. ?This was okay - and there was some key moments where people from Italy, Iran, Columbia and Ecuador were able to share some critical advice - but not optimal in terms of energy and flow. ? We are eyeing Zoom¡¯s language interpretation feature - which apparently allows you to set up separate audio channels by language. ?It¡¯s an upgrade that we¡¯re thinking is probably worth the money (it¡¯s a 160GBP a month) but wondered if anyone has experience with it and could attest to its value (or not).
One thing that is working well is using a Google Doc with instructions for how to join/participation, what people should do in small groups and the agenda in multiple languages. ?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
- Dirk
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