Timekettle brings about a new era in multilingual communication by combining the best of AI and automated translation into the WT2 Edge earbuds, with close to zero latency.
US Department of Justice works with Louisiana’s Supreme Court to solve lack of access to language services for court users of limited English proficiency.
Translation and interpreting demand at Japan’s largest LSP, Honyaku Center, now approaching pre-Covid figures. Slow recovery of in-person activities continues to impact sales.
US Department of Justice works with North Carolina Courts to remedy lack of access to language services for court users of limited English proficiency.
New York Governor, Kathy Hochul, makes good on commitment to expand and improve equal access for residents of limited English proficiency (LEP) via new state agency.
SeproTec’s Global Director for Interpreting talks about managing a big, complex, public-sector contract; responds to recent pushback.
US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, says US cannot achieve diplomacy without interpreting; praises interpreters as vital to work of State Department.
Microsoft releases its own interpretation feature for Teams in 16 language pairs. Live captioning for Teams will follow in 31 language variants.
Interpreters United wins representation for Washington interpreters, who will now join the largest federation of unionized workers in the state.
AIIC Canada survey shows most accredited interpreters not getting work as government pilot project to use unaccredited interpreters pushes ahead.
Canada’s House of Commons approves project to hire external, non-accredited interpreters for parliamentary proceedings.
Deadline for Ofpra RFP is August 29, 2022. French government’s EUR 42-million call for tender shows which languages have doubled in demand over the past four years.
Three linguist organizations in Belgium publish RFP manual to improve tender process; suggest focusing on quality and prioritizing local providers.
Study by language service provider, Inbox Translation, finds 27% increase in UK spend on healthcare translation and interpreting since 2015, driven mainly by British Sign Language.
Interpreters are vulnerable to vicarious trauma, burnout, secondary traumatic stress, and compassion fatigue from repeated exposure to traumatic information. Here are some ways to deal with it.
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