Thinking About Live Translation As A Latency Problem

I have started thinking about multilingual meetings as a latency problem. Not network latency exactly, but meaning latency. Someone speaks, the listener waits, the topic moves on, and the translation arrives a little too late to be useful. The delay changes the interaction. For developers building global products, that delay is easy to underestimate. Speech Is A Stream Text translation feels comfortable because text waits. Speech does not. A conversation has pauses, interruptions, emphasis,…