Wordly Wins Virtual Events Innovation Award and Passes 2 Million AI Translation User Milestone
LOS ALTOS, Calif. (PRWEB) June 29, 2023 -- Wordly, the leading provider of AI translation for meetings and events, announced winning the 2023 RemoteTech Breakthrough Virtual Events Innovation of the Year award. The award coincides with passing several major company milestones, including exceeding 2 million users of live translation - making it the first AI-powered translation solution designed for meetings and events to reach this milestone.
GROWING DEMAND FOR LIVE TRANSLATION
According to translation research conducted by Dimensional Research, 72% of meeting and event planners expect to see an increase in the frequency of multilingual meetings and events - and 76% report they are increasing their use of translation in order to increase attendee inclusion and engagement, as well as event attendance and attendee satisfaction. Wordly is bridging the multilingual language gap by making it easy and affordable for organizations of all sizes to offer live translation and support their DEI initiatives.
Launched in 2019, the Wordly translation platform provides real-time translation into 30+ languages for in-person and virtual meetings and events. Attendees can listen to translated audio, read translated subtitles, or read captions. Wordly continues to scale its infrastructure and team to meet growing demand and announced passing several major milestones, including:
- 2 Million Translation Users
- 300 Million Translation Minutes
- 50,000 Translation Sessions
Wordly is used by over 800 global customers in technology, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, non-profit, and local government markets.
VIRTUAL EVENTS INNOVATION AWARD
Wordly is the recipient of the 2023 “Virtual Events Innovation Of The Year” award. The annual awards were conducted by RemoteTech Breakthrough, a leading independent market intelligence organization that evaluates and recognizes standout technology companies, products, and services empowering remote, hybrid, and distributed work around the globe. The mission of the annual RemoteTech Breakthrough Awards program is to conduct the industry’s most comprehensive analysis and evaluation of the top technology companies, solutions, and products in the remote and hybrid work industry today. This year’s program attracted more than 1,250 nominations from over 15 countries throughout the world.
“Wordly enables organizations to unlock the potential of their multilingual teams and global markets by removing language barriers for everyone. This automatically increases inclusivity, engagement, productivity, and learning. Congratulations on winning ‘Virtual Events Innovation of the Year,’” said Bryan Vaughn, Managing Director of RemoteTech Breakthrough Awards. “When presenters and attendees speak different languages, meetings wind up being incredibly unproductive. However, human interpreters are expensive and logistically complicated. With Wordly, you get all the advantages of having a translator without the high cost of hiring human interpreters or managing special equipment.”
GLOBAL EVENTS MARKET
In addition to scaling operations to meet growing demand, Wordly continues to innovate in order to deliver a high-quality customer experience. Recent product additions include natural-sounding translation voices, customizable glossaries to help ensure names and industry terminology are translated correctly, video captioning services, and translated transcripts to provide a written record for every meeting.
Wordly is taking its team on the road and will be the official AI translation provider at six major events-industry conferences, enabling over 20,000 meeting and event planners to experience using live translation at hundreds of education sessions.
- Upcoming events include ICE (International Corporate Event Planners) in Frankfurt and London, AIPC (International Association of Convention Centres) in Luxembourg, and ASAE (American Society of Association Executives) in Atlanta.
- Recent events included Imex in Frankfurt and MPI WEC (Meeting Planners International, World Education Congress) in Cancun.
About Wordly
Wordly provides next-generation AI-powered translation and interpretation solutions. The Wordly platform provides remote, real-time, simultaneous interpretation without the use of human interpreters - making it faster, easier, and more affordable to collaborate across multiple languages at once and make meetings and events more inclusive and engaging. Wordly enables organizations to unlock the potential of their multilingual teams and global markets by removing language barriers at in-person and virtual sessions. Wordly is used by over 800 businesses, associations, organizations, and government entities around the world. For more information, visit http://www.wordly.ai.
Dave Deasy, Wordly, https://www.wordly.ai/, 1 6503802500, [email protected]
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