[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":212},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-grande-confusione-sotto-il-cielo-rsai-en":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":7,"date":193,"description":16,"excerpt":194,"extension":195,"heroImage":196,"heroImageAlt":197,"heroOpacity":198,"image":196,"imageAlt":197,"meta":199,"navigation":200,"path":201,"readingTime":202,"seo":203,"slug":204,"stem":205,"tags":206,"__hash__":211},"blog/blog/grande-confusione-sotto-il-cielo-rsai/en.md","Great Confusion Under the Sky: The Situation Is Excellent","Converso",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":183},"minimark",[10,17,20,23,26,31,34,37,40,43,47,50,53,60,66,72,76,79,82,88,94,100,104,107,110,132,135,139,142,145,148,151,154,158,161,164,167,170,173,176,178],[11,12,13],"p",{},[14,15,16],"em",{},"Artificial intelligence in simultaneous interpretation — between promises, fears, and the only thing that truly matters: making it work.",[18,19],"hr",{},[11,21,22],{},"Mao Zedong used this phrase to describe moments when apparent chaos conceals an extraordinary opportunity. Whether you take it as a revolutionary maxim or a cynical proverb, it perfectly captures the state of simultaneous interpretation in 2026.",[11,24,25],{},"Never so much confusion. Never so much opportunity.",[27,28,30],"h2",{"id":29},"the-sky-of-interpretation-today","The Sky of Interpretation, Today",[11,32,33],{},"On one side, the prophets of doom: AI will replace interpreters, booths will end up in landfills, the profession is dead. On the other, the purists of tradition: AI doesn't understand irony, can't grasp nuance, can never replace a human being. In between, a market that doesn't quite know what to buy — and an army of startups selling \"real-time AI translation\" as if it were a solved problem.",[11,35,36],{},"Spoiler: it isn't. Not yet. And perhaps it shouldn't be.",[11,38,39],{},"The confusion stems from a fundamental misunderstanding: treating artificial intelligence and human interpretation as alternatives. As if one must win and the other disappear. As if the choice were binary.",[11,41,42],{},"It isn't.",[27,44,46],{"id":45},"two-tools-for-two-purposes","Two Tools for Two Purposes",[11,48,49],{},"At Converso®, we've been working with conference interpreters since 2001. We've built booths, pulled cables, managed radio frequencies when infrared was the standard. In 2014, we brought simultaneous interpretation to smartphones. In 2017, we started connecting interpreters remotely, and in 2019 we built a physical RSI Hub in Milan — 14 soundproofed booths, 3 control rooms, UPS and generator — while everyone else was going to the cloud.",[11,51,52],{},"When we launched RSAI in 2025, our AI interpretation system with human governance, we didn't do it to replace what we had built. We did it because we understood something simple: there are contexts where AI is the right tool, and contexts where it isn't. The intelligent decision isn't choosing a side — it's choosing for each language, each session, each need.",[11,54,55,59],{},[56,57,58],"strong",{},"Choose AI when"," the content is structured and informational, volumes are massive, the budget is tight, subtitles are needed for everyone, there are many languages and some have few listeners.",[11,61,62,65],{},[56,63,64],{},"Choose a human interpreter when"," the context is diplomatic, irony matters, the negotiation is critical, the emotion of the voice is part of the message, cultural nuances can make the difference between a deal and an incident.",[11,67,68,71],{},[56,69,70],{},"Choose both when"," — and this happens more often than you'd think — the main languages require the depth of an interpreter while secondary languages can be covered by AI, without the audience noticing any difference in the experience.",[27,73,75],{"id":74},"the-problem-with-ai-translation","The Problem with \"AI Translation\"",[11,77,78],{},"In the great confusion under the sky, the term \"AI translation\" has become an empty container. Anything gets stuffed into it: from a browser's automatic translator to enterprise systems with real-time human supervision. The result is that the client doesn't know what they're buying, and the provider often doesn't know what they're selling.",[11,80,81],{},"Here's what separates a serious system from an impressive demo:",[11,83,84,87],{},[56,85,86],{},"The chain is long."," An AI interpretation engine is not a single algorithm. It's a pipeline: speech recognition, neural translation, speech synthesis. Every link depends on the quality of the preceding one. A poor microphone, a strong accent, a noisy room: the first link degrades and everything else follows.",[11,89,90,93],{},[56,91,92],{},"Context changes everything."," A generic AI engine translates \"board\" as a wooden plank. An engine trained with your event's materials knows that in that context it means \"board of directors.\" Without Context Training — terminology preparation specific to each event — output quality is a lottery.",[11,95,96,99],{},[56,97,98],{},"Monitoring is not optional."," Anyone who tells you to turn on an AI engine and walk away has never managed a live event. AI makes mistakes. Sometimes subtle, sometimes glaring. The difference is having a technician who monitors the stream in real time and intervenes — or switches to a human interpreter — when quality drops below threshold.",[27,101,103],{"id":102},"rsai-how-it-actually-works","RSAI: How It Actually Works",[11,105,106],{},"RSAI is Converso®'s proprietary system that integrates AI into simultaneous interpretation. It's not a self-service platform. It's not a plugin. It's a managed service, with a human operator supervising every session.",[11,108,109],{},"In practice:",[111,112,113,120,126],"ul",{},[114,115,116,119],"li",{},[56,117,118],{},"Before the event:"," the engine is trained with conference materials — glossaries, abstracts, speaker names, industry terminology. Context Training raises accuracy from the very first word.",[114,121,122,125],{},[56,123,124],{},"During the event:"," AI translates in real time. A Converso® technician monitors the output quality and can intervene at any moment. In hybrid setups, the switch from AI to human interpreter is seamless for the audience.",[114,127,128,131],{},[56,129,130],{},"For the audience:"," no difference in the experience. Same WebApp, same QR code, same audio quality — whether there's an interpreter or an AI engine behind the scenes.",[11,133,134],{},"In February 2026, at BIT in Rho Fiera, we managed 6 conference rooms in parallel with 12 simultaneous AI outputs, for 3 days. The rooms were open space inside exhibition halls — the worst possible scenario for audio. The system worked without interruptions. But it worked because it was prepared, governed, and supervised. Not because AI is magic.",[27,136,138],{"id":137},"honesty-as-positioning","Honesty as Positioning",[11,140,141],{},"In a market where everyone promises everything, the most counterintuitive thing we can do is be honest about what AI cannot do.",[11,143,144],{},"It doesn't handle debates with overlapping voices well. It struggles with strong accents. It doesn't catch irony, sarcasm, the unsaid. It lacks the cultural instinct of an interpreter who has worked the same language pair for twenty years.",[11,146,147],{},"And we say this — we, who sell it.",[11,149,150],{},"We say it because a client who chooses the right tool for the right context is a satisfied client — and one who comes back. A client who was sold the moon and ends up with a rock in their stomach is a lost client, and negative word of mouth.",[11,152,153],{},"Our RSAI manifesto was born here: from the conviction that coexistence is smarter than replacement. That progress isn't about eliminating what works, but adding what was missing.",[27,155,157],{"id":156},"the-situation-is-excellent","The Situation Is Excellent",[11,159,160],{},"Let's return to Mao. \"Great confusion under the sky: the situation is excellent.\"",[11,162,163],{},"The confusion is real. But for those who have clarity — about what works, what doesn't, and above all what the client actually needs — this confusion is an enormous competitive advantage.",[11,165,166],{},"Because while the market splits between uncritical enthusiasts and paralyzed skeptics, there's room for those who do the hardest thing: tell the truth, offer both solutions, and let the context decide.",[11,168,169],{},"We don't sell what's fashionable. We sell what you need.",[11,171,172],{},"Sometimes it's an interpreter with twenty years of experience.\nSometimes it's an AI engine trained on your materials.\nOften it's both.",[11,174,175],{},"And the confusion? 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