KUDO

You can give every delegate the keynote in their own language, as translated audio or captions on their own phone, without renting interpretation booths or handing out receivers. KUDO offers two ways to do it, which you can buy separately or combine: an AI speech translator covering more than 70 languages, and a marketplace of about 12,000 professional interpreters covering more than 200 spoken and sign languages. It suits conference, trade show and corporate event teams who need several languages on stage or on an online platform, and organisations that run the same multilingual meetings every month.

What it is for

For an in-person event, KUDO gives you a QR code and a web link to put on screens and signage. Attendees scan it, pick a language in the browser and either plug in headphones or read the subtitles, with no app to install. KUDO says the browser stream uses 10 to 20 Kb per second, so venue wifi or 4G is enough. It lists trade shows, product launches, conferences and summits, company events and training sessions as typical uses, and also sells permanent set-ups for conference rooms, exhibition centres, council chambers and lecture halls.

Online, you can run the meeting on KUDO’s own platform, use its native Microsoft Teams integration, or embed its language selector widget on another meeting or event platform. The company also documents use for all-hands meetings, board meetings, webinars and UX research groups.

Features

• AI speech translation. Translated audio and captions in 70+ languages including regional variants, available 24/7. You can upload a custom glossary of terms and choose a male or female voice. KUDO quotes an average delay of 4.1 seconds and its own fluency and accuracy scores of 4.1 and 4.25 out of 5. It describes the AI as one-way: speakers take turns presenting, it is not for back-and-forth conversation.
• Human interpretation. Book interpreters by language and subject area (around 30 listed, from banking to medical and legal). KUDO says every interpreter signs an NDA before each session. You can also bring your own interpreters onto the platform.
• Interpreter console. Separate outgoing and incoming language channels, a pivot channel, dual listening, a boothmate handover and AI Assist, which shows interpreters live captions while they work.
• Meeting tools. Request to speak, turn-based questions, multiple-choice and parliamentary voting with reports, chat, screen and document sharing, a virtual lobby, a timer and user roles for operator, host, participant and viewer.
• Capacity. Up to 32 languages per meeting and up to 3,000 users per language, with several meetings running at once from one account.
• After the event. Recordings downloadable as separate files in each language, auto-generated subtitles, live streaming in listen-only mode, and meeting reports and analytics.

Plans and pricing

KUDO publishes plan names and what each includes, but no prices. You agree a figure with its sales team, and the company says cost depends on how often you meet, how long sessions run, the languages you need and how much technical support you want. Its in-person and online pages describe the AI translator as hourly pricing, and the marketplace takes hourly payment online through credits.

Plan	Price	Billing	Includes
Marketplace	Not published	Hourly, paid online by credits, no annual subscription	Self-serve booking of human interpreters for Zoom, Webex, Microsoft Teams and others; online meetings and events only
Pay As You Go	Not published	Per event, no subscription	Human and/or AI for a one-off event online, in person or hybrid; third-party integrations; technical support
Annual Plan	Not published	Yearly, from 50 hours per year	Human and/or AI for recurring meetings and events; platform integrations; KUDO AI included with human interpretation plans

Plans as shown on its plans and features page, checked 8 November 2026. KUDO says annual billing is discounted and that unused technical support credits roll over. There is no free plan, and no free trial is published.

Integrations and API

KUDO lists Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Webex, Hopin, ON24, Bizzabo, EventMobi, Hubilo and GlobalMeet as supported platforms. Teams is a native integration. For everything else KUDO embeds an iFrame widget, and it says the widget gives the same translation quality as its own platform. Its marketplace page also names Interprefy and Interactio as platforms you can book its interpreters onto. An annual plan can include support for linking to on-site hardware. No public developer API is documented.

Deployment and platforms

KUDO is a cloud service that runs in the browser. iOS and Android apps are available, with a direct Android download for users without Google Play. For an in-person room you need a laptop and a USB audio interface per stage, plus an internet connection. Its plans page states GDPR compliance, ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type 1 and Type 2. Data hosting regions are not stated.

Company

KUDO Inc. is based in New York, with offices in Geneva and San Francisco, and is led by CEO Fardad Zabetian. According to its own history, the founders came together in 2016 and the first KUDO meeting platform launched in 2017. KUDO AI followed in 2023. The company reports $27M in Series B funding and six US patents, the sixth granted in September 2026.

What to check before buying

• Get hourly rates in writing for AI and for each interpreter language pair, because no figures are published.
• Check the interpreter lead time for your dates. The plans page says 2 hours, while the marketplace page says bookings need 12 hours’ notice.
• Ask which hours count towards an annual plan’s 50-hour minimum, and whether unused hours expire.
• Only Microsoft Teams has a native integration. On Zoom, ON24, Bizzabo or another platform attendees use the embedded widget, so test it on your own event set-up first.
• Remember that the Marketplace plan covers online events only. In-person interpretation needs Pay As You Go or an annual plan.
• Confirm where recordings and transcripts are stored, since KUDO does not state its hosting regions.

KUDO pricing

What KUDO publishes about its pricing, checked on its own pricing page. Prices change, so confirm the current terms with KUDO before you buy.

Pricing model	Quote on request
Free plan	No
Free trial	No

No prices published. Cost is agreed with sales and depends on meeting frequency, session length, languages and support level. AI and marketplace interpretation are priced by the hour; annual plans start at 50 hours per year and annual billing is discounted.

Source: kudo.ai, checked 8 November 2026.

Coverage on Event Tech News

• Wordly adds reactions and highlights to its live translation captions

Alternatives to KUDO

Other directory profiles that do the same job as KUDO, closest matches first.

• ON24
• Airmeet
• Interprefy
• Goldcast
• Dacast
• vMix

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• Interprefy, a remote interpretation and AI translation platform to compare directly.
• Wordly, AI-only live translation and captions for events.
• ON24, a webinar platform on KUDO’s supported list.
• Bizzabo, an event platform KUDO lists as supported.
• EventMobi, an event app KUDO names among its supported platforms.
• Zoom Events, if your sessions run on Zoom.
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• Checking event software accessibility, where captions and translation fit.

Sources: kudo.ai plans and features, kudo.ai in-person events, kudo.ai online platforms, kudo.ai venues, kudo.ai AI speech translator, kudo.ai marketplace, kudo.ai download centre, kudo.ai our story, kudo.ai sixth patent release, kudo.ai contact, checked 8 November 2026.