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LOBAKA Picha · Cinema and screeningsAvailable as a pilot
Onepicture.Severalaudioexperiences.
LOBAKA Picha pairs one screening with several synchronized audio tracks that the audience listens to on their phones.
Available as a pilot, on the Sasa infrastructure: one track per channel, kept in time with the video automatically by the projection station, and live audio description. No pilot screening has taken place yet. The no-account trial uses demo content made by LOBAKA.
BAKOKO is a short animated film made to let people try Picha. The whole room watches the same picture; each phone plays the narration in the language it chose. Switch language during the excerpt: playback picks up at the same moment.
On this page, switching language loads another file. In Picha, each phone receives its track live, in step with the screening.
For a real screening, the no-account trial plays a film from the catalogue on your computer, and each phone picks its language. Try Picha →
BAKOKO, a LOBAKA Picha demonstrator. A 57 second excerpt of a 10 minute film, subtitles in French and English.Silhouette animation generated by code, music and ambience synthesised for the film. Synthetic voices: Kokoro (Apache 2.0); in the chorus, Piper voices siwis (CC BY 4.0), upmc (CC BY-SA 4.0) and gilles (CC0).Transcript of the excerpt
0:05Chorus of the ancestors : What is spoken is not written.
0:09Chorus of the ancestors : Someone wrote it down.
0:28Narration : Brazzaville, 2020. Across the river, Kinshasa is switching on its lights.
0:40Narration : On a terrace, five friends are spending the night doing nothing much. They were born around the year 2000, into families that count. They have seen power up close, at the dinner table. Nobody ever told them about the rest.
In use
One screen, a track each.
The film plays on a single screen. Each viewer picks on their phone the track they want to hear, synced to the picture: another language, the original version or audio description.
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Projection
Viewer
Example: the no-account trial, with “Le clap”. Screenshots of the LOBAKA Picha app, with demo data.
Cinemas and screening rooms
The original version in the room, the dubbing or the audio description in the earphones of those who choose it.
Open air and festivals
One screen, a mixed audience, several languages in the same screening.
Cultural institutes and schools
One film for audiences who don't speak the same language.
Two modes
Who runs the picture?
Picha is designed for two situations.
One screen, one picture, and four synchronized audio tracks: French, Arabic, English and audio description.
Screening run by LOBAKA
LOBAKA streams the video and the audio tracks. For an institutional screening, a museum room, a hotel.
External screening
The cinema keeps its own projection system. LOBAKA provides the audio experiences, locked to the picture.
Uses
Wherever something is screened to a mixed audience.
Cinemas and multiplexes
Festivals
Open-air cinema
Cultural screenings
Cultural institutes
Universities
Museums
Hotels
Private screenings
What exists, what's coming
What already works, what is still to do.
Picha is available as a pilot, on the Sasa base. The projection station plays the video and keeps every track in time with the picture for the whole screening. Here is what already works and what is still to build.
Already available
Already in place
One audio track per channel, chosen by the viewer
Video played by the projection station, every track kept in time with the picture automatically
Adjustable room delays, with a calibration pattern
Black screen for viewers
Listening per track: choices, switches, minutes
Live audio description
Access by QR code, no app
No-account trial with demo content
Next steps
In preparation
Phone delay: today suggested at the projection station and applied by hand
More demo content, with rights checked before publication
Later
Later
Integration with professional cinema systems
Voice tracks produced by speech synthesis
Professional cinema formats (DCP, SMPTE sync) will be covered in dedicated technical documentation.
Need an audio describer or headphones?
On LOBAKA Zando, find a verified audio describer, with no commission. The screening kit will come with Picha.
Replayed with every version. A screening: the session prepared with its tracks, the film started, every viewer in their language on their phone. Latest campaign, 12 October 2026: Passed, 10 of 10 steps.
