International medical congresses

What makes these events hard

The difficulty in a medical congress is not speed — it is terminology density. In a few minutes of a cardiology talk you will hear drug names, procedure names, scale abbreviations and institution names in rapid succession. Mistranslate one and a room full of specialists notices immediately.

Add speakers from a dozen countries — Indian English, Japanese English, Latin American Spanish — and a general-purpose recognition model drops measurably in accuracy.

How we handle it

Before: fix the terminology

• We build a dedicated glossary from the agenda and speaker list: generic and brand drug names, standard procedure translations, official names of societies and institutions
• Where speakers share slides or abstracts in advance, we run recognition over them and add the frequent misreads to a correction list
• We agree the wording with the organizer, so the same concept is never rendered two different ways in two different rooms

During: multiple engines, best result wins

• Several recognition engines run in parallel and the highest-confidence result is selected in real time, so one engine struggling with a particular accent is covered by the others
• A stable-prefix strategy means confirmed text is never rewritten — the audience's eye is not pulled back by captions that jump
• Main hall and breakout rooms are captioned simultaneously, each with its own configuration

After: structured delivery

• Full transcript by speaker, with timecodes
• Bilingual translation with consistent terminology
• Topic-level summaries ready to drop into minutes or a press release

Typical events

Annual scientific meetings, specialty forums, new-drug and clinical research briefings, internal scientific sessions at multinational pharmaceutical companies.