Saudi Arabia using AI and real-time translation to open Haj to the world

The world’s largest gathering of people, and perhaps it’s the world’s largest test of communication, takes place in holy sites in Saudi Arabia, where more than two million pilgrims from 180 nations converge for Haj.

With those pilgrims come hundreds of languages, dialects, and customs, making effective communication profoundly challenging.

According to a press release from the Saudi Ministry for Haj and Umrah, the kingdom is “rewriting the rules of communication at Haj”, making broad...