LOBAKA Sasa · Multilingual eventsAvailable as a pilot
Real-timeinterpretation.Oneveryone'sphone.
LOBAKA Sasa streams live human interpretation directly to participants' phones. The audience scans a QR code, picks a language and listens. No interpretation receivers to distribute.
Pilot phase: free, supported sessions; organizer accounts opened on request.
Each participant listens to the interpreter of their choice, on their own phone. AI-generated image: fictional people and place.
Who translates?Your interpreters. Humans.
What does Sasa do?It streams their voices to phones.
And the participant?A QR code, a browser, earphones. They pay nothing.
In use
One room, three languages, a phone each.
A congress in French, English and Arabic. The organiser projects the QR code, each interpreter speaks from their phone, each participant picks a language and listens on their earphones.
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Organiser
Interpreter
Participant
Example: a congress in three languages. Screenshots of the LOBAKA Sasa app, with demo data.
Congresses and conferences
Several languages in the same room, with no receivers to hand out or collect.
Assemblies and places of worship
The sermon or the speech interpreted live for those who don't speak the language from the stage.
Diplomatic and business meetings
Each delegation follows its interpreter on its own phones, at the table or in the room.
How Sasa works
The speaker speaks, the interpreter translates, Sasa streams.
Each interpreter listens to the speaker and speaks in their language, on their own channel. Sasa streams every channel live to the participants who picked it.
1The speakerspeaks in the room language
2
AminainterpreterFRFrench channel
JohninterpreterENEnglish channel
KariminterpreterARArabic channel
Human interpreters listen and translate. Each one produces a channel.
3LOBAKA Sasastreams every channel live
4Participants hear their language on their phone.
Example: three interpreters, three channels. The names are fictitious.
What Sasa changes
Sasa replaces the receivers, not the interpreter.
What Sasa replaces or simplifies
Interpretation receivers to buy or rent
Handing them out at the door, collecting and recharging them
Part of the physical distribution setup in the room
Rooms that had no interpretation for lack of equipment
What Sasa does not replace
Interpreters: they produce every language
An interpretation booth where rules or standards require one
A decent network in the room (Wi-Fi or mobile data)
What about AI?
Human interpretation today. Automated capabilities later.
Sasa does not use machine translation. We'd rather say so right away.
Today
Every language is produced by an interpreter.
Sasa is a distribution infrastructure: it carries interpreters' voices to participants, with several channels in the same room. Without an interpreter, there is no translated channel.
Later
Automated capabilities, in development.
LOBAKA is developing automated voice capabilities. They are not part of today's offering and no date has been announced. When they arrive, they will come on top of interpreters, on the same infrastructure, and will be labeled as such.
Who does what
An organizer, interpreters, participants.
The organizer creates and pays for the session. Interpreters speak. Participants listen, for free.
The organizer
The organization hosting the event.
Creates the session and its channels, one per language
Invites interpreters with a personal link
Displays the QR code in the room
Sees live who is speaking and how many people listen to each channel
Pays for Sasa (free during pilots)
The interpreter
On site or in another room.
Opens their link on a phone or a computer
Hears the speaker, or another interpreter, in their headphones
Speaks in their language, on their channel
Always sees what they are listening to and which language they are interpreting into
The participant
Everyone in the audience.
Scans the QR code with their phone
Picks a language
Listens through earphones, switches language whenever they like
Installs nothing, creates no account, pays nothing
Setup
Five steps, the day before or on the day.
01
Create a session
Event name, venue, date.
02
Add your channels
One channel per language, plus the room language.
03
Invite your interpreters
Each one gets a personal link for their channel.
04
Show the QR code
On a screen, a poster or on badges.
05
The audience picks a language
They scan, pick, listen.
Relay interpretation
Your interpreters don't need to speak the speaker's language.
An interpreter can listen to another interpreter instead of the speaker. If nobody translates directly from Lingala into English, the English interpreter listens to the French channel. Sasa checks every chain: it rejects loops and limits the number of relays, because each relay adds the delay of one interpretation.
Speaker · Lingala
Amina
French
John
English
New: tested end to end in the lab (September 2026), not yet in a public pilot. The organizer approves every route; Sasa never changes a chain on its own.
Features
What Sasa does today.
Only what exists in the product. Recent additions are flagged.
Live audio
Already in place
A continuous stream, not chunked playback.
Several channels
Already in place
Up to 5 channels per session today: languages, room sound, commentary, audio description.
Human interpretation, on site or remote
Already in place
The interpreter hears the speaker in their headphones, even from another room, and speaks on their channel.
Relay interpretation
Already in place
An interpreter can listen to another interpreter. Loops rejected, relays limited.
Language choice
Already in place
Participants pick a language and switch with one tap, without a gap.
QR code
Already in place
One code per session, to project or print.
Language pre-registration
Already in place
Before the event, the audience says which languages they want. You plan your interpreters accordingly.
Live dashboard
Already in place
Who is speaking, on which channel, how many are listening, which route feeds each language.
Context video for interpreters
Already in place
A phone facing the speaker shows the stage to interpreters, never to the audience.
Session statistics
Already in place
Participants, channels listened to, language switches, anonymous feedback.
What is guaranteed, what is measured, what isn't yet.
An organization that trusts Sasa with its room should know exactly what it gets.
Encrypted from browser to server
HTTPS and encrypted WebRTC. The session code is random; an interpreter's link can be revoked at any time.
No personal data to listen
Participants give no name, email or phone number. A nickname is optional.
Limits enforced, not promised
Today: 5 channels per session and 155 simultaneous participants, with 30 seats per channel by default, adjustable by the organizer. Beyond that, access is refused with a clear message.
A session lasts 4 hours, extendable
It ends on its own when time is up; the organizer extends it in one step, up to 8 hours.
No route changed silently
If an interpreter's source drops, the organizer is alerted and sees which languages are affected. Sasa suggests an alternative; it never applies it on its own.
What isn't measured yet
Mouth-to-ear delay in a real room. The measurement protocol exists; no figure is announced until it has run with real phones.
Two ways to use Sasa
With LOBAKA Flex, or as part of an event.
During the pilot phase, sessions are free. After that, Sasa is used in two ways, shared by all LOBAKA products.
One event
LOBAKA Events
Sasa is part of an event planned ahead, with its Koris reserved.
Koris reserved before the event
Can be combined with Pamoja and Picha
For congresses, conferences, embassies, NGOs
Regular use
LOBAKA Flex
A session whenever you need one, used according to actual usage.
Koris used according to people connected and duration
Replayed with every version. A conference in three languages: the room set up, interpreters in place, an audience that joins by QR code, switches language and reopens the page. Latest campaign, 12 October 2026: Passed, 12 of 12 steps.
