The rapid development of ICTs has led to profound changes in the working environment of many professions. Companies now offer employees the possibility of working at home, and video and web conferencing are increasingly common. Today interpreters need to weigh the pros and cons of remote interpreting – and need more information to do so. By Private Market Sector Standing … [Read more...]
Speech Recognition (SR) | By Jaime Fatás Cabeza | Posted: May 24, 2012
Speech recognition (SR) is a computer application that allows a computer to recognize sound waves and synthesize them as an audio stream, transcribe them as written text, or process them as recognizable commands, thus allowing control of the computer by voice. Usually, users dictate to a computer through a microphone. The application then samples and digitizes the sound waves … [Read more...]
Toss that Potato! | By Jennifer De La Cruz | April 22, 2012
By Jennifer De La Cruz I love comparing the process of being a conduit of communication to a game of “Hot Potato.” The image in my mind is that of the source language speaker tossing me information in the form of a steaming spud, and my job is to get rid of it as soon as possible, without getting burned, and doing so in a way that the target language … [Read more...]
Beware of Scams | By Jennifer Bikkal Horne | April 12, 2012
Over the past few months, I have received a number of different emails from people trying to scam me. They were from different “companies”, they had different approaches, different pseudonyms, but they all had one same goal. One of the emails was for an interpreting job. They accepted my rate, and additional fees, without any hesitation and they offered to pay me before I even … [Read more...]
“Dare to be different. Write a new page.” | By Marcela Jenney-Reyes
Recently the Tonight Show had the legendary comedian Bill Cosby as a guest. Besides cracking me up and robbing me of my precious hours of sleep, he joked around with different expressions that are part of our day-to-day conversations. One especially struck a chord with me: “I just want to make sure we are on the same page.” This idiom, commonly used to confirm we are talking … [Read more...]