Let’s face it. Word and Excel aren’t the best places to store interpreting glossaries.

In this article, I’d like to delve into the reasons I strongly recommend terminology management tools designed for interpreters, like Interpreters’ Help, InterpretBank or interplex.

DeepL is more than just a translation tool.

It’s a powerful language assistant packed with clever features that can help translators and interpreters alike.

Read on to discover seven of my favorite ways to use DeepL for your next translation or interpreting assignment!

Automatic terminology extraction is all the rage.

But there are still good reasons to extract terms manually.

With most tools, this either requires a ton of copying and pasting or some post-processing. But Interpreters’ Help makes this hassle-free!

Is note-taking the bane of every interpreter’s existence? For many of us, it sure is. What if there were a way to “automate” the whole thing?

Enter Cymo Note, a tool that combines a running transcription (highlighting key terms and figures) with a virtual notepad.

Check out this very short demo of Cymo Note.

Ever received a hundred-page document and needed to find the key terms for your assignment – without reading the whole thing? 🤯

Or found a document and its translation, and wished you could use technology to automatically extract the key terminology from both versions?

You can!

Online events offer unparalleled opportunities to bring together colleagues from across the globe.

Yet we’ve all attended plenty that were unsatisfying, draining and felt like a waste of time.

This post takes you behind the scenes of two dynamic online summits with thousands of happy participants.

The secret to success: Don’t replicate in-person events. Innovate.

Read on to discover how we designed the summits, why we picked our tools, and how we used that toolbox to create two powerhouse online summits.

In the last year, the number of online meetings, webinars and networking sessions for translators and interpreters has shot through the roof.

By now, you’ve probably picked up a solid webcam and figured out how to tweak your lighting and framing to look good on camera. You may have even splurged on a green screen to hide all the chaos behind your desk - or created a professional branded background for your online meetings.

If so, you’ve likely stumbled across a common problem. High-quality webcams tend to have wide-angle lenses, which means they tend to pick up way more than that tiny clean patch you’ve carefully curated behind you.

Wish you could crop stuff in the background out of the shot for online meetings? Looking to crop your webcam so it only captures your green screen?

You can.

In this month’s column, we’ll show you how to zoom and crop your webcam for online events using a nifty tool called OBS Studio - and even add in that branded background.

If you’re anything like us, you’ve seen your fair share of virtual backgrounds. Most of them aren’t especially professional or convincing, with blurry edges around people’s faces and backgrounds that bleed through.

The secret behind a good look isn’t the background image, it’s using a green screen.

Once you’ve picked up your green screen, you could just use one of the backgrounds that come with your meeting platform. But why would you want to use the same background as everyone else?

In this month’s column, we’ll show you how to create a professional, branded background image that’ll make you stand out at your next online meeting.

As more and more interpreting has gone virtual, we've all been searching for ways to teach and practice online.

Today, we share our thoughts on GoReact, a web-based platform that makes it easy to record the original and simultaneous interpretation, adjust the volume while listening back to both tracks and provide feedback using text, audio or video. Plus, since GoReact supports dual video tracks, it's perfect for both signed and spoken language interpreting practice.

In this month‘s column, we‘re focusing on an interpreting mode that is often seen as decidedly low-tech or even no-tech: consecutive.

And chances are that, due to the pandemic, you find yourself doing more consec than usual, and on online video platforms to boot!

So if you want to brush up or enhance your note-taking skills, here are some tech-infused tips to get you started.

Think auto-correct and grammar-checking tools are old hat? Think again! Today, we’d like to tell you about your multilingual writing assistant: LanguageTool.