Autofilling glossaries is, at best, a zero-sum game. At worst, it’s going to make you make mistakes in the booth.
Anticipation: The Silent Edge Behind Great Interpreting
This crucial cognitive skill of reading ahead intellectually, emotionally, and rhetorically helps interpreters to proactively...
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Les secrets du silence, cet art oublié de l’interprétation
Dans l’art de l’interprétation, on pourrait croire que nous devons toujours parler, parler, parler… Mais en réalité, le silence...
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Silent sabotage: boothmate ghosting kills professional RSI
A seasoned remote interpreting professional explains why boothmate communication behind the scenes is crucial.
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Three reasons why Zelenskyy should have used an interpreter
An interpreter explains why she thinks the diplomatic debacle in the White House could have been avoided.
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AI tools and confidentiality in the booth: a survey
How many conference interpreters are using AI-powered tools and what confidentiality measures are they taking?
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Why do interpreters say they need better sound than normal listeners? And what’s wrong with sound quality in video-conferencing?Here’s a quick guide. Why is my interpreter saying the sound quality isn’t good enough? I can hear...
Sharing a physical space with your boothmate has numerous professional and personal advantages over working alone from home. Covid lockdowns and the rise of the Remote Simultaneous Interpreting (RSI) platform have had an extraordinary effect on...
Interpreters’ brains are extraordinary. When we are hard at work, our brain is carrying out multiple processes simultaneously, in demanding bursts of mental gymnastics that would be impossible for most non-interpreters. We also use our short...
Interpreting is one of the most stressful jobs there is. So how do we make sure we stay on top of our game? One of the ways to do that is by eating healthy. The term superfood has been used to describe a foodstuff that contains a lot of...
Letter to Count Smorltalk Dear Count Smorltalk, This could be the beginning of a wonderful friendship. Because I believe you need a friend. I believe you must be terribly lonely. In your Trolley Folly post, you painted this sad self-image of a...
Count Smorltalk asks the question: is this the end of the road? When I was little, nobody had had the genius idea of adding wheels to suitcases. I reckon that the late dawning realisation that you could add wheels to bags is a prime...
The issue of interpreter visibility has been discussed many times, and it remains an ongoing discussion. I was reminded of it just recently when I read an interview with an interpreter who repeated the old mantra of the invisible interpreter...
Count Smorltalk does voiceover Many moons ago I wrote about heteronyms. You know, those awkward words spelled the same but pronounced differently in different contexts. If you only have a second to think about it, how do you know it is second...
Count Smorltalk cogitates on the machinery of translation Je pense, donc je suis. These famous words, penned by Descartes in his 1637 Discours de la Méthode, are a cornerstone of Western philosophy: the fact of thought means that the...