A and B are the booth's outputs
In the VoxVent console, A and B let you choose between two output languages assigned to the booth. For example, A can be Italian and B English. The selection determines the channel on which the interpreter's voice is published when they open the microphone.
Before the session, check assignments with the interpreter and the service coordinator. Button names do not replace agreement on language combinations, interpreting direction and shifts.
Relay is a listening source
With relay, the interpreter listens to another booth's interpretation instead of the original. For example, a contribution in French is interpreted into English; another booth can use the English as its source to produce Italian.
Technical relay availability alone is not enough to decide to use it. Professionals must agree the language chain, considering timing and dependence on the booth producing the intermediate language.
An example in the VoxVent console
A booth configured with A Italian and B English can select a third available language as relay, such as French. Its two output languages are excluded from relay selection, so the interpreter is not offered their own channel as a source.
The original remains a separate source. If the selected relay stops arriving, the booth waits for that source: it does not automatically switch to the original. The interpreter therefore needs to recognise the interruption and have an agreed way to alert production.
Checks to perform together
- Confirm A and B languages and the active channel.
- Check the microphone by listening at the actual destination.
- Select the planned relay and verify that it comes from the correct booth.
- Test closure of the source booth and the waiting behaviour.
- Agree handovers and technical communications with the interpreters.
The production team needs to know the dependencies: interrupting a booth that feeds a relay may affect other languages. A small source map, shared before the event, is more useful than an improvised correction during the programme.