Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence in the In­ter­pre­ting Booth

In our last ar­ticle, we ex­plored how ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence is being used in the trans­la­tion in­dustry. But AI is gai­ning ground in the in­ter­pre­ting world as well. Today, there are even apps that can tran­scribe spoken lan­guage on the spot—perfect for those mo­ments on va­ca­tion when not even hand ges­tures will do the trick.

In pro­fes­sional set­tings, too, there are now im­pres­sive, modern so­lu­tions to make mul­ti­l­in­gual com­mu­ni­ca­tion more ac­ces­sible to cur­rent and po­ten­tial clients.

Part­ner­ship with Interprefy

One of our part­ners on this journey is Interprefy—the global leader in remote si­mul­ta­neous in­ter­pre­ting soft­ware and services.

Th­rough In­ter­prefy, we can con­nect in­ter­pre­ters from any­where in the world in a pro­fes­sional vir­tual en­vi­ron­ment. At the same time, cli­ents retain full fle­xi­bi­lity over how their event is set up:

• Online busi­ness mee­tings on the In­ter­prefy plat­form or any other pre­ferred con­fe­ren­cing tool such as MS Teams, Zoom, Webex, etc.
• Hybrid events with on-site and vir­tual attendees
• Web­i­nars
• Live strea­ming events
• And more

The Role of AI and Human Interpreters

So much re­gar­ding the tech­nical setup but where does AI come in?

All of these for­mats can be sup­ported by pro­fes­sional si­mul­ta­neous in­ter­pre­ters, working either re­mo­tely or from a phy­sical booth. But they can also be powered by AI speech translation.

In this setup, spoken lan­guage is in­ter­preted by an AI system with just a few se­conds’ delay, using the latest tech­no­logy. In­ter­prefy offers a range of AI-ge­ne­rated voices that sound as na­tural as pos­sible and can be tail­ored to fit each event. AI speech trans­la­tion is par­ti­cu­larly cost-ef­fec­tive and can be de­ployed at short notice.

Sub­titles for Greater Accessibility

But that’s not all: it’s now also pos­sible to ge­ne­rate mul­ti­l­in­gual sub­titles in real time. These cap­tions can tran­scribe spoken lan­guage to im­prove ac­ces­si­bi­lity for the deaf and hard of hea­ring or pro­vide trans­la­tions for in­ter­na­tional au­di­ences. Users can cus­to­mize sub­title set­tings, switch bet­ween lan­guages, and adjust text size as needed.

AI opens up a world of pos­si­bi­li­ties. There’s so­me­thing for ever­yone. We’re here to help you find the right so­lu­tion and create the per­fect setup, whe­ther powered by human ex­per­tise or ar­ti­fi­cial intelligence.