Wordly News and Media Coverage

November 4, 2026

Another example comes from Rosemarie Rossetti, Ph.D., accessibility speaker and consultant, who recently spoke with Kirk Hendrickson, Chief Operating Officer at Wordly, about the company's active involvement as a sponsor at meeting industry events, including MPI, PCMA, ASAE, and others.

November 4, 2026

Wordly, an AI-powered translation and captioning platform, has launched Audience Engagement, a new feature that lets event attendees react to presentations, highlight key moments, and save notes directly within the live caption stream.

November 3, 2026

Attendees can export personalized takeaways and session summaries in their preferred language, while organizers can track audience sentiment and identify which topics resonated most. The feature requires no additional AV equipment or attendee accounts and is available worldwide.

October 29, 2026

ANOC.tv Studio will integrate Wordly’s real-time AI translation and captioning platform into its post-production for the first time at Dakar 2026 ensuring NOCs can share their athletes’ stories, delivered in their native language, quicker and to a wider audience.

October 29, 2026

Wordly and ANOC bring AI translation to Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games ahead of Los Angeles 2028, opening new opportunities for global sports communication. Their expanded partnership will help national Olympic committees translate athlete interviews into more than 60 languages, connecting emerging sporting talent with international audiences through accessible digital storytelling.

October 29, 2026

Wordly launched Audience Engagement for its real-time event translation platform. Attendees highlight live translated speech segments, post reactions during sessions, and download full session transcripts on their mobile devices.

October 27, 2026

The new interactive capabilities are embedded within the live content stream and accessible on the Wordly app, which supports real-time translation in dozens of languages, live captions, audience highlights, and post-event content summaries and engagement analysis.

October 16, 2026

Wordly AI’s Lakshman Rathnam offers this commentary on the vital role AI plays in empowering transcription for multilingual families.

October 12, 2026

Wordly sells conference AI interpretation with captions and AI audio across 3,000+ language pairs.

October 12, 2026

Now Wordly has launched a product, Silent Theater, which allows presenters to speak normally while attendees listen through their own phones, with booth screens displaying large captions.

October 6, 2026

The new capability streams booth audio directly to attendees' phones with conference-grade clarity and lower latency.

October 6, 2026

BizBash takes a deep dive into the newest tech solutions for events of all types, plus the latest must-know industry news.

October 2, 2026

Wordly, a pioneer in AI translation and captions used across conferences, governments, schools, and enterprises, has announced the launch of Sponsor Logos, a new enhancement that allows event organizers to sell sponsor placement within the live translation and captioning experience for the first time.

September 30, 2026

New meeting enhancements included the use of Bold Reuse reusable cups to promote sustainability at the ACS Connect Reception and Sci-Mix; expanded ACS Member Lounge activities featuring Member Lounge Theater, the Committee on Chemists with Disabilities (CWD) Brand Hub, and booths for future meetings and their local section hosts; and the introduction of live transcription services by Wordly to increase accessibility for meeting sessions and events.

September 29, 2026

The studio has also worked on new ways to support communication in classes. It shared plans to use the translation platform Wordly. It also has an instructor certified in ASL interpretation.

September 24, 2026

AI translation and captions company Wordly has launched a new enhancement that allows event organisers to sell sponsor placement within the live translation and captioning experience.

September 23, 2026

Sponsor Logos places a partner's branding directly on the attendee screens, whether they are following captions on their phones or reading translated subtitles on the screen of the main stage.

September 23, 2026

Wordly, a provider of artificial intelligence translation and captioning solutions, today launched Sponsor Logos, which enables event organizers to sell sponsor placement within their live translation and captioning experiences.

September 21, 2026

Pulse 2.0 interviewed Wordly Founder and CEO Lakshman Rathnam to learn more about AI translation, accessibility, and the company’s growth.

September 18, 2026

"It's fascinating to me when you have people come up to the dais or come up to the public comment desk, and they're reading their anti-data center screed off their phone, while their words are being transcribed by Wordly, and being transmitted across the world on YouTube," he said.

September 10, 2026

A Spanish-language performance will not be a Spanish-only experience, since audiences can follow along live in their own language through Wordly, a simultaneous translation platform offering access in more than 25 languages.

September 10, 2026

She also announced that a new pilot program, Wordly, is being tested. It is a live translation service with which residents can scan a QR code on their phones to choose the language in which they can follow the meeting.

September 8, 2026

Automatic subtitles: UK businesses can boost reach, SEO, inclusion and cut costs. Ten data-backed benefits, legal changes and a practical checklist.

September 7, 2026

I recently went one-on-one with Lakshman Rathnam, founder and CEO of Wordly.

September 3, 2026

Adding to the exposure, statutory changes under SB 707 expanded the window for the public to file a formal cure-and-correct demand over alleged Brown Act violations from nine months to twelve, according to compliance guidance from Wordly AI, giving challengers more time to petition a Superior Court to invalidate council actions.

September 2, 2026

The city announced Tuesday that it has begun using Wordly during meetings held in the City Council Chambers at City Hall. The program provides live translated captions and audio during City Council, Environmental Planning Commission and Rental Housing Committee meetings.

August 26, 2026

Wordly has deployed its real-time translation and captioning platform across all Learning Labs at the ASAE Annual Meeting & Exposition, held August 15–18, 2026 in Indianapolis.

August 25, 2026

Technology can help overcome the language barrier. Wordly is an AI-powered live translation and captioning platform. The platform can provide live translation and captions in over 50 languages. It is easy to deploy and scale and can be set up for a large event, or individuals can access their preferred language on their own device through a QR code.

August 21, 2026

The 2026 Inc. 5000 ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in the US went live in mid-August. Slator identified 11 language solutions integrators (LSIs) and language technology platforms (LTPs) on the national list.

August 20, 2026

Among the challenges is cost savings. Technology can streamline operations and eliminate unnecessary expenditures. Wordly, an AI-powered translation service, estimates event organizers have saved more than $100 million since 2019 by using AI translation because they don’t need to pay human translators in order to expand their events’ reach to international audiences.

August 20, 2026

Wordly provided real-time translation and captions at the ASAE Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, where the service was used across keynotes and Learning Labs for more than 5,500 attendees.

August 18, 2026

Event translation company Wordly has seen explosive growth as demand grows for AI-powered multilingual communication across conferences, meetings and other live experiences.

August 12, 2026

Live AI translation and captions for events specialist Wordly has been ranked No. 521 on the 2026 Inc. 5000, an annual ranking of the 5,000 fastest-growing private, independent companies in the United States.

August 12, 2026

Demand for live AI translation has spread beyond international conferences into routine use across education, government, business and community settings. Wordly described multilingual communication as an operational need for organisations serving increasingly diverse audiences.

August 11, 2026

Wordly's achievement on the Inc. 5000 is a significant moment for the education technology sector, marking the growing importance and impact of AI translation.

August 11, 2026

Today, Wordly is used by more than 1,000 multi-day conferences around the world, spanning nonprofits, professional associations, industry groups, and corporate events.

August 10, 2026

Wordly said adoption of its live AI translation and captioning services has helped it surpass 1 billion minutes of translated content and 6 million users.

July 23, 2026

AI-powered translation is entering American ministry. Congregations use it to offer live translations of worship services in multiple languages, without teams of interpreters. Companies like Wordly are behind much of this.

July 23, 2026

In a similar vein, the county has deployed an AI tool, Wordly.ai, to provide real-time translation and captioning during Board of Supervisors meetings. Since going live, the platform has translated more than 18 meetings and more than 4,600 minutes of content.

July 16, 2026

Interivew with Kirk Hendrickson, Wordly COO, explaining how organizations can use live AI translation to make meetings and events more inclusive and engaging for all attendees.

June 30, 2026

The idea for Wordly did not begin in a lab or through market research. It started with a personal experience that highlighted a global problem.

June 26, 2026

Much of the public conversation around AI still focuses on risk, uncertainty, and what the technology cannot do," said Lakshman Rathnam, Founder and CEO, Wordly. "But organizations using AI translation are making decisions based on results, not assumptions. They are seeing meaningful improvements in quality, accessibility, and scalability, and that is changing expectations for how multilingual communication should work.

June 26, 2026

The 2026 State of AI Translation and Captioning survey was commissioned by Wordly and conducted by Dimensional Research. The study surveyed 205 qualified meeting and event stakeholders from the United States and United Kingdom between May 11 and May 21, 2026. Participants were responsible for external events and/or internal meetings involving multilingual audiences at organizations with more than 1,000 employees.

June 25, 2026

The report, commissioned by software company Wordly and conducted by Dimensional Research, also found that 66% prefer AI-powered translations and only 25% said they still prefer human interpreters.

June 24, 2026

Jeanne Sheehy and Sarah Timm demonstrated how AI can personalize the entire meeting lifecycle—from recommendations and matchmaking to real-time translation using tools like Wordly.

June 17, 2026

At conferences, speakers are often delivering their keynote or panel discussions in languages that many attendees might not know. That leads to users scrambling for their phones and opening translation apps to capture audio from a distance, which is not always effective.

June 16, 2026

In-person translators are no longer appearing at the Fresno City Council. Non-English speakers now speak at the lectern, automatically translated using the Wordly service.

June 12, 2026

This call will include real-time interpretation through Wordly, allowing participants to follow the presentation in the language of their choice.

June 11, 2026

Wordly, a provider of live AI translation and captioning, announced this week that its platform saw accelerating adoption across U.S. higher education commencement ceremonies during the 2026 graduation season.

June 10, 2026

This year’s commencement season highlighted the use of AI translation and real-time captioning as one of the fastest-growing trends in higher education event technology. While educators continue to debate how AI should be used in classrooms, Wordly, the pioneer in live AI translation and captioning, has seen rapid adoption of its platform during commencement ceremonies.