[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":208},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-ultimo-miglio-traduzione-ai-en":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":7,"date":190,"description":16,"extension":191,"heroImage":192,"heroImageAlt":193,"heroOpacity":194,"image":192,"imageAlt":193,"meta":195,"navigation":196,"path":197,"readingTime":198,"seo":199,"slug":200,"stem":201,"tags":202,"__hash__":207},"blog/blog/ultimo-miglio-traduzione-ai/en.md","The engine is ready. The rest is built in the room.","Converso",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":177},"minimark",[10,17,20,25,28,31,34,38,41,44,47,51,54,63,66,69,73,76,83,87,90,103,106,109,113,116,119,127,131,134,137,140,144,147,150,153,161,165,168,171],[11,12,13],"p",{},[14,15,16],"em",{},"The major translation engines have learned to speak in real time. Between an engine that translates and an audience that understands, though, there is a stretch of road that no engine travels alone: the last mile.",[18,19],"hr",{},[21,22,24],"h2",{"id":23},"in-short","In short",[11,26,27],{},"Real-time voice translation has left the lab: the major players in language AI have taken their engines from text to speech. They are excellent engines, and they will keep getting better.",[11,29,30],{},"A live event, however, is not a call between two people. For the translation to reach the audience, five more things are needed: clean audio from the room going into the engine, the event's vocabulary loaded in advance, delivery that reaches each person in the way they want to follow, someone who governs quality while the event is happening, and the choice of where AI should be used and where it should not.",[11,32,33],{},"This article looks at these five things, one by one.",[21,35,37],{"id":36},"an-engine-does-not-walk-on-stage","An engine does not walk on stage",[11,39,40],{},"Whoever builds a translation engine thinks in terms of a flow: speech goes in, translation comes out. It is extremely hard work, and the results of recent months prove it.",[11,42,43],{},"In a conference room, though, the flow does not start in the engine. It starts with a microphone held too far from the mouth, a speaker who turns towards the slides, a question from the audience asked without a microphone, applause that covers the last sentence. And it does not end in the engine: it ends in the ears or before the eyes of three hundred people, each with a different phone, a different language and an attention span that lasts as long as the translation is easy to follow.",[11,45,46],{},"Between these two ends lies the work nobody sees. It is not an installation detail: it decides whether the event succeeds or not.",[21,48,50],{"id":49},"first-the-floor","First: the floor",[11,52,53],{},"The engine translates what it hears. If it hears badly, it translates badly: even the best engine loses reliability when the signal is dirty.",[11,55,56,57,62],{},"The floor, the original audio of the room, has to be taken where it is born: from the sound system, in agreement with the AV company that runs it, and carried to the engine through a link designed for the purpose. This is what tools like the ",[58,59,61],"a",{"href":60},"/en/rsi-bridge","RSI Bridge"," are for: it sits in the room's control booth and connects its channels to the platform. It is the most physical part of the job, and also the part that most often makes the difference.",[11,64,65],{},"An example from October, at an international summit on the Albanian coast. The Minister of Tourism gave the audience an unscheduled greeting, off the cuff and without a microphone: his voice carried clearly to the back of the room, but it did not reach the engine. The solution came from the room itself: a photographer lent his clip-on wireless microphone, which was attached to the minister's jacket and connected to the mixer. The minister spoke the way he preferred, and the subtitles continued without interruption.",[11,67,68],{},"A microphone is not only there to make a speaker heard in the room. It is there to carry the voice to whoever translates, whether a booth or an engine.",[21,70,72],{"id":71},"second-the-events-vocabulary","Second: the event's vocabulary",[11,74,75],{},"A general engine knows the language, but it does not know your event. It does not know that an acronym should be spelled out, that the company name is not translated, that the speaker has a surname which speech recognition mistakes for a common word.",[11,77,78,82],{},[58,79,81],{"href":80},"/en/context-training","Context Training"," prepares the engine on the event's vocabulary: names, acronyms, technical terms, and for each one the correct rendering in the target languages. It is what an interpreter does before entering the booth: study the subject, the terminology and the event materials. The materials the organiser already has are enough, even rough ones: the programme, the slides, a brochure. The engine still translates live what speakers say, even when they improvise.",[21,84,86],{"id":85},"third-delivery","Third: delivery",[11,88,89],{},"The translation has to reach those who want it, in the form they want it. At a real event, there are many forms.",[11,91,92,93,97,98,102],{},"Some people listen to the translated voice in their headphones on their own smartphone, with the ",[58,94,96],{"href":95},"/en/converso-app","WebApp",", without installing anything. Some prefer to read, and find subtitles on the same phone or on a ",[58,99,101],{"href":100},"/en/accessibilita/sottotitoli","screen in the room",". Some follow the stream from another country. And there is the speaker on stage, who during the debate needs to understand a question asked in another language.",[11,104,105],{},"Then there are the details that separate a service from a demo. People choose their language once: when the speaker switches to that very language, the subtitles continue and become a transcript of the original. Automatic recognition of the spoken language has a threshold, so that a single English word inside a talk in Italian does not switch the translation to another language. And people who struggle to hear in the room can have the original audio in their own headphones, from their own phone.",[11,107,108],{},"These are small features, but the audience's experience is made of them.",[21,110,112],{"id":111},"fourth-governance","Fourth: governance",[11,114,115],{},"An engine does not know when it is wrong. If the speaker's microphone runs out of battery, if the room's network slows down, if one language is performing worse than usual, the engine keeps producing output with the same confidence as before.",[11,117,118],{},"That is why someone has to watch. During the event, a technician in the control room follows a dashboard with quality indicators for each language. When an indicator drops, the technician traces the cause and acts on it: the incoming signal, the connection, the engine configuration. This is not a backup interpreter ready to step in. It is the pilot of a system that works well only if someone is responsible for it.",[11,120,121,122,126],{},"This is what the ",[58,123,125],{"href":124},"/en/rsai","RSAI Manifesto"," calls human governance: telling the audience they are listening to an AI translation is not enough; someone has to answer for how that translation reaches them.",[21,128,130],{"id":129},"fifth-knowing-where-ai-does-not-belong","Fifth: knowing where AI does not belong",[11,132,133],{},"The last mile also includes a choice that no engine can make for the organiser: where to use it.",[11,135,136],{},"AI translation performs best on frontal, technical and informative content, with one speaker at a time, many languages and a large audience. Interpreters remain the right choice when nuance, irony, a fast-paced debate or a negotiation matter. The decision is not made once for the whole event: it is made session by session.",[11,138,139],{},"Saying this honestly before the event is as much part of the service as setting up the control room.",[21,141,143],{"id":142},"engines-and-machines","Engines and machines",[11,145,146],{},"Engines will keep improving, and that is good news for everyone. The better the engine, the more everything around it matters: an excellent engine on a dirty signal, without vocabulary, poorly delivered and with no one watching, remains a missed opportunity.",[11,148,149],{},"This does not happen only in translation. Clayton Christensen, the Harvard professor who studied disruptive innovation, turned it into a law, the conservation of attractive profits: when one part of the value chain becomes abundant and interchangeable, value does not disappear; it moves to the adjacent part. This is exactly what is happening with translation engines. The better and more accessible they become, the more value shifts to what carries them all the way to the audience.",[11,151,152],{},"The engine and the work in the room are not in competition: they are two halves of the same service. One translates. The other makes sure the translation arrives.",[11,154,155,156,160],{},"Converso® has worked on this second half for twenty-five years: first with simultaneous interpreting in the booth, then with remote interpreting and the ",[58,157,159],{"href":158},"/en/rsi-hub","RSI Hub"," in Milan, today with governed AI interpreting. The engine changes. The last mile remains.",[21,162,164],{"id":163},"want-to-know-more","Want to know more?",[11,166,167],{},"Let's talk about your next event: we look at the programme together and tell you which sessions to give to AI, which to interpreters, and what setup the room needs.",[11,169,170],{},"Or try it first, with a no-obligation demo. Whether an AI translation suits an event cannot be decided in the abstract: the same result is acceptable to one person, not to another, and surprising to a third. That is why the demo does not use a generic sample. It starts from a video or a recording of one of your events, with the engine prepared on your vocabulary, and the judgement stays with you.",[11,172,173],{},[58,174,176],{"href":175},"/en/contatti","Contact us",{"title":178,"searchDepth":179,"depth":179,"links":180},"",2,[181,182,183,184,185,186,187,188,189],{"id":23,"depth":179,"text":24},{"id":36,"depth":179,"text":37},{"id":49,"depth":179,"text":50},{"id":71,"depth":179,"text":72},{"id":85,"depth":179,"text":86},{"id":111,"depth":179,"text":112},{"id":129,"depth":179,"text":130},{"id":142,"depth":179,"text":143},{"id":163,"depth":179,"text":164},"2026-11-02","md","/images/blog/ultimo-miglio-traduzione-ai/hero.jpg","At night, on a wet runway, a marshaller with two light wands guides a huge spaceship","dark",{},true,"/blog/ultimo-miglio-traduzione-ai/en","6-8 min",{"title":5,"description":16},"ultimo-miglio-traduzione-ai","blog/ultimo-miglio-traduzione-ai/en",[203,204,205,81,206],"AI","RSAI","Interpretation","Last mile","dE7ri1mpSnHOYkP0w1bBomx3vqUfeXlCrQ2FmyHMPxk",1793808136856]