Multilingual polls and live captioning are not the same thing
If you asked for a multilingual poll and were pointed at spf.io, Wordly or Interprefy, those are captioning and interpretation platforms. They translate the speaker for the audience. A multilingual poll does the opposite.
They translate the speaker, Nabad translates the room
These platforms put real-time captions and interpretation in dozens of languages onto a stream or into a room, and each attendee picks a subtitle language on their own phone. They carry the stage to the audience. Nabad carries the audience back to the stage.
| Nabad | spf.io and similar | |
|---|---|---|
| Direction of translation | The audience to the room | The stage to the audience |
| What actually gets translated | What participants writeplus the questions and the interface | What the speaker saysas captions or interpretation |
| Question types | Nineincluding open text, word cloud, Q&A and ranking | Twomultiple choice and checkboxes, one poll active at a time |
| Price | Publishedfree, then $12 USD a month | By quotesold as minutes, overage per minute per language |
Which one do you actually need?
Your audience cannot follow the speaker
Take a captioning platform. spf.io, Wordly and Interprefy put subtitles and interpretation on the stage in dozens of languages, and each person reads along on their own phone.
Your audience never answers
Take a multilingual poll. Each participant reads the question and answers in their own language, and the written answers are translated back so the whole room reads them together.
What spf.io's polls actually do
Multiple choice and checkboxes, one poll active at a time, and no open text. Voting is an add-on to the captioning, not the product.
Using both at one event
They do not overlap. Captions carry the stage to the audience, and Nabad carries the audience back to the stage. A large multilingual conference can reasonably run both.
Is Nabad only for multilingual rooms?
No. Nabad is your all-in-one: one tool for every room you run.
One language
- Runs in your language, nothing to set up
- Your audience never sees a language menu
- Every question type: polls, word clouds, rankings, Q&A
More than one
- Everyone joins in their own language, automatically
- Open answers are translated live as they arrive
- One screen of results for the whole room
Common questions
Is Nabad only for multilingual rooms?
No. You choose how many languages a session runs in. Pick one and untick the rest, and there is nothing to switch between, so the language picker never appears. The day the room is not all one language, you turn the others on and everyone reads and answers in their own.
Is spf.io a multilingual polling tool?
Only partly. spf.io is a live captioning and interpretation platform. Its polls offer multiple choice and checkboxes, one active at a time, and no open text. It translates the speaker for the audience; a multilingual polling tool does the opposite.
What is a multilingual poll?
A live poll where each participant reads the question and answers in their own language, inside one shared session, and the responses are gathered into a single result the whole room can read.
Can I use captioning and a multilingual poll together?
Yes, and at a large event it often makes sense. One carries the stage to the audience, the other carries the audience back to the stage. Nothing in either tool conflicts with the other.
Try it with your own multilingual room
Free to start. No app for your audience and no attendee accounts. Join with a six-digit code or a QR scan.
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spf.io facts retrieved 16 September 2026 from spf.io's own pages. If something here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.
- spf.io, Frequently Asked Questions. spf.io
- spf.io, Multilingual Polls. spf.io
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