Login | Join Today

13 Feb

Posted at 14:57h in Advocacy, Attorney Education, Certification, Community Interpreting, Conference Interpreting, Court Interpreting, Ethics, Interpreters, Janis Palma, Language Associations, Leadership, Medical Interpreting, New Ideas, Recent Posts, The Profession by
0 Likes
The act of interpreting has been taking place ever since two groups of people met but could not speak each other’s languages. A friend of mine, who is working on her doctoral dissertation, found this quote from the work of Marzena Chrobak[1]: “In the Near...

06 Feb

Posted at 14:06h in Business Practices, Court Interpreting, Finances, Hilda Zavala-Shymanik, Interpreters, Recent Posts by
2 Likes
Per Diem vs. Per Assignment I have been a freelance interpreter since January 2007. For the first seven years of that period, I was hired exclusively to work per assignment by agencies. It wasn’t until 2014, when I first became certified, that I started working...

07 Nov

Posted at 15:07h in Advocacy, Business Practices, Court Interpreting, Ethics, Immigration, Interpreting, Janis Palma, Language, Recent Posts, Technology, The Profession by
0 Likes
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new” —Socrates Jon Leeth was the Special Assistant to the Assistant Director in Charge of Court Reporting and Interpreting Services, also referred to as Chief...

31 Oct

Posted at 10:01h in Business Practices, Court Interpreting, Equipment, Interpreting, New Ideas, Recent Posts, Remote Interpreting, Technology, Translation, Uncategorized by
0 Likes
We have all been there: tired and in need of a partner. Could there exist a machine that does the notetaking for me? I started to ponder about speech recognition many years ago when ASR (automatic speech recognition) was accessible via software (think Siri). I...

03 Oct

Posted at 01:00h in Advocacy, Attorney Education, Community, Community Interpreting, Court Interpreting, Ethics, Immigration, Interpreters, Language, Recent Posts by
1 Like
Interpreters are proving to be an indispensable resource to indigenous communities as the demand for their services increases. While a handful of language-service agencies claim to offer some of these languages, they cannot guarantee the interpretation provided is true or accurate. This is why, to...