A briefing half the crew didn't follow isn't a briefing.
Toolbox talks, shift handovers, town halls, and works council meetings — translated live to every worker's own phone, with a transcript per language recording what each of them was actually told.
Nothing to issue at the gate · Pricing per language-hour
Two-page guides: industrial & frontline (PDF) · corporate & works councils (PDF)
The rooms where being understood is the job.
Most workforces already speak more languages than the people briefing them do. These are the sessions where that gap has consequences.
Briefings and toolbox talks
A five-minute talk at the start of a shift is the hardest thing in the building to staff an interpreter for: it happens every day, it moves, and the crew changes. Open the languages your site actually speaks and leave them running for the whole shift.
- No booking anyone for a talk that lasts five minutes
- Captions as well as voice, for a floor that is too loud to listen on
Shift handovers and instructions
What went wrong on the last shift, what is still open, and what the incoming crew has to watch. The detail that normally gets lost between two people who share no fluent language, in writing, in both languages, as it is said.
All-hands and town halls
Leadership says the same thing to everyone at once, and everyone hears it in their own language rather than reading a summary a week later. Staff on other sites, other shifts, or at home join the same session — see remote listeners.
Works councils and employee representation
For a European Works Council the multilingual record is not a nice-to-have, it is the deliverable. Every session saves a transcript in each language it ran in, so the minutes and the version each representative could read are the same document.
Where this is not the right tool
Koine translates what is said in a room. It is not a certified translation of your safety documentation, your contracts, or your statutory notices, and it is not a substitute for a qualified interpreter in a disciplinary hearing, a formal grievance, an accident investigation, or anywhere your regulator or your legal team requires one. A transcript records what was communicated — it does not certify that anyone understood it.
Nothing to issue at the gate.
Receiver hardware means units to buy, a person to hand them out and get them back, batteries to charge, a cleaning routine, and a fixed set of languages chosen at budget time. A code on the muster board replaces all of it, and people use the phone and earbuds already in their pocket.
- No capital purchase and no asset to track between shifts
- A new language the same morning a new crew arrives
- Captions on the room screen where a shop floor is too loud for audio — see captions & overlays
- Anyone can run it — a supervisor with a clip-on mic, not an AV team
What you can show afterwards.
Safety and consultation processes usually ask you to demonstrate that information was made available, in a language the workforce could follow. Every session leaves that behind on its own, without anyone writing it up.
A transcript per language
Timestamped, and not just in the original — the actual text each language group received, in the language they received it in.
Private by default
Internal sessions stay internal. Nothing is published anywhere unless you publish it, and recording is a separate switch you turn on.
Searchable later
Find the shift where a change was announced without scrubbing through audio — see recordings & archive.
Koine is a tool for making a briefing followable, not a compliance product and not legal advice. Whether a given session satisfies your obligations is a question for your own safety and legal teams, and we would rather work that through with you before a pilot than after one.
Whoever gives the briefing runs it.
Take the voice
A clip-on mic on the supervisor, or the feed from a PA or meeting room you already have.
Open the languages
Pick the languages on the shift roster and put the join code on the muster board, the noticeboard, or the badge.
Keep the record
The session saves a transcript per language on its own. Turn on recording if you want the audio too.
Per language-hour, not per worker.
A daily fifteen-minute briefing in four languages is one language-hour a day. Headcount never changes the price, so briefing a bigger crew never costs more for being bigger.
Start free with a real briefing on your own audio — 15 minutes, no card. Several sites or shifts running at once are quoted through contact us. Full plan detail on pricing.
What would it cost your site?
Headcount never changes the price. Set the languages your shift actually speaks and how much you brief, and this is the monthly cost.
Estimate only. Final price is confirmed before you pay, and unused hours do not roll over.
Questions from safety and HR.
Is machine translation good enough for a safety briefing?
For following what is being said, it is generally far better than the realistic alternative, which is a briefing in a language part of the crew does not speak. It is not a substitute for a certified translation of your safety documentation, and where a regulator or your legal team requires a qualified interpreter, use one. We say the same in the one-pager rather than burying it.
Our floor is extremely loud. Does that work?
The microphone matters more than anything else. A clip-on or headset mic close to the speaker's mouth handles a loud room well; a phone on a table across the room does not. In the loudest areas, captions on a screen or on phones are usually the better output — and we will tell you honestly if a particular area is a bad fit.
What about workers without a smartphone, or without data?
Everyone needs a phone and a connection, and site wifi is usually the answer. This is a real limit, not a detail: if a meaningful part of your crew has neither, a briefing they can hear on their own device is not the tool for that room.
Does the transcript prove compliance?
It documents what was said, when, and in which languages it was delivered — which is usually the evidence that is missing. It cannot show that a given person read or understood it, and we do not claim otherwise.
Which languages are available?
Over 50 for translated voice, and considerably more for captions, including right-to-left languages — see live translation.