Conferences & meetups
The talk is not in your language, and nobody booked an interpreter.
Live translated subtitles over an online conference, meetup or vendor session you are watching in a browser tab. No organiser setup, no interpretation platform, 66 languages.
Free to start · Works in your browser · Your audio stays private
Event interpretation is bought by the organiser — and most events never buy it.
Live interpretation at events is sold per event and per hour, to whoever is running the event: Wordly’s rate has been reported at around $75 an hour in packages from ten hours, and Interprefy quotes events from $190 into the thousands. That is a real service and it covers the whole room. But it is a decision made by somebody else’s budget, and when that budget said no, an attendee has nothing at all. Trippi is the attendee’s half of the problem: it captures the audio of the session playing in your tab and writes the translation under it, for you alone, decided ten seconds before the talk starts.
What each side actually buys
The comparison is not “cheaper interpretation” — it is a different purchase entirely, and it is worth being precise about which one you need.
| What it is | Who decides and pays | Published price |
|---|---|---|
| Wordly — AI interpretation for the whole event | The organiser | Reported at about $75 an hour, packages from ten hours |
| Interprefy — interpreters and AI for the whole event | The organiser | From $190 per event into the thousands |
| Trippi — subtitles for one attendee, in the browser | You | Free for 25 minutes a month, then from $6 a month |
Prices are as published by those vendors in August 2026. They sell the room; Trippi sells your screen. If you are the organiser and the whole audience needs one shared language track, an interpretation platform is the right answer — and if you would rather your audience solved it themselves, for free, there is a line you can put in the invite.
Where it fits: online and hybrid
Trippi hears a browser tab. A conference streamed on Vimeo, Hopin, Zoom Webinar, YouTube or the organiser’s own player is exactly that; so is a meetup on Google Meet and a vendor session embedded in a marketing page.
A talk given in a physical hall is not, and this is the honest limit: if the sound reaches you through the air rather than through a tab, there is nothing for the extension to capture. Room interpretation is what the platforms above are for.
Nobody has to approve it
- No organiser setup, no integration, no language list decided in advance — 66 languages, chosen by you, per session.
- Nothing joins the event: no bot in the participant list, no recording banner, nothing announced to the speaker or the audience.
- Nothing is recorded. The transcript of the session stays in your own browser, and you can export it as .txt or Markdown afterwards.
How it works
Add to Chrome
One click from the Chrome Web Store. No account, no install wizard.
Open the session in a tab
The organiser’s link — a webinar, a stream or a call: click the icon and press Start captions before the talk starts.
Read the talk in your language
Every sentence arrives in your language while the speaker is still talking.
Frequently asked questions
Is this an alternative to Wordly or Interprefy?+
For an attendee, yes — it gives you the translation those platforms would have given the room. For an organiser who has to serve a whole audience with one shared language track, it is not: those are event-wide services with interpreters, moderation and support, and Trippi is one person’s browser extension.
Can it translate a talk in a conference hall?+
No. Trippi captures the audio of a browser tab, not a microphone in a room. It covers online and hybrid sessions you watch on a screen.
Do I need the organiser’s permission or a link from them?+
No. You need the session open in a tab in Chrome or Edge. Nothing is added to the event and the organiser is not involved.
How many languages, and can I read one while they speak another?+
That is the normal case: 66 languages, and you pick the language spoken and the language you read separately.
What does a full-day conference cost me?+
Time is counted only while captions are running. The free plan is 25 minutes a month; paid plans are $6 for 10 hours, $12 for 25 and $24 for 70 — see pricing. For a whole conference day, count the sessions you actually need translated, not the length of the programme.
Stop guessing what they said.
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