On-demand workshops
Our research translated into impactful workshops for interpreters.
What to expect
All our workshops comprise:
- Guided self-assessment: Helping participants assess their strengths and set personal goals.
- Research-based insights: Equipping participants with knowledge to identify common pitfalls and good practices.
- Hands-on activities: Enabling participants to put new knowledge into practice.
- A collaborative space: Fostering reflection, sharing experiences, and collective growth.
- An online training module: For participants to revise contents and keep practising after the workshop.
Overview of all workshops
Computer-Assisted Simultaneous Interpreting
Learn to make strategic use of computer-assisted interpreting (CAI) tools to increase productivity and performance.
- Introduction: CAI tools offer the potential to handle “problem triggers” such as numbers, technical terms, and acronyms with greater accuracy and confidence. However, these tools are not a magic fix—they require a strategic approach. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to use CAI tools during SI without overlying on them, ensuring your expertise and judgment remain central to your work.
- Key outcomes:
- Identify the potential and challenges of integrating CAI tools into SI.
- Tailor the use of CAI tools to your personal strengths and weaknesses.
Acquire good practices and avoid common pitfalls. - Make strategic use of CAI tools, ensuring that your control over the interpreting process is maintained and that the tool enhances, rather than dominates, your work.
- Available language combinations: English→Italian, English→Spanish
- CAI tool: SmarTerp CAI tool
- Introduction: Automatic speech recognition and its integration into computer-assisted interpreting tools offer the potential to help interpreters interpret numbers accurately and effortlessly. However, simply relying on the ASR without a strategic approach may lead to worse, rather than better, performance. This workshop will teach you how to leverage ASR effectively to interpret numbers.
- Key outcomes:
- Identify the potential and limitations of ASR tools in the context of interpreting numbers.
- Pinpoint personal challenges in using ASR effectively for numbers, and understand how to address them.
- Develop and apply strategic approaches to maximise the effectiveness of ASR, ensuring that it complements your interpreting skills rather than detracting from them.
- Available language combinations: English→Italian, English→multiple languages, German→Italian, German→multiple languages
- Technologies: General ASR solutions, InterpretBank, SmarTerp CAI tool
Numbers in Simultaneous Interpreting
Transform numbers from a stumbling block into a powerful tool to hone your interpreting skills.
- Introduction: Numbers are a common stumbling block for interpreters, causing errors and often even disrupting the interpreting activity. This workshop will help you pinpoint the specific causes behind your struggles with interpreting numbers and empower you to overcome them through targeted training and interpreting strategies.
- Key outcomes:
- Uncover the underlying causes of difficulty when interpreting numbers.
- Identify personal strengths and weaknesses in the SI of numbers.
- Discover the most effective training and interpreting strategies to help you overcome your challenges.
- Available language combinations: English→Italian, English→multiple languages, German→Italian, German→multiple languages.
- Introduction: One of the biggest challenges when interpreting numbers is that even a small change in digits can drastically alter the meaning of the original message, leading to misunderstandings or implausible interpretations. But it doesn’t have to go that wrong. In this workshop, you’ll explore a range of strategies that may help you avoid critical errors in the SI of numbers, all while preserving the meaning of the source speech.
- Key outcomes:
- Learn about and apply multiple strategic approaches to interpreting numbers.
- Identify the approaches that work best for your individual needs.
- Exchange tips and tricks with your peers.
- Available language combinations: English→Italian, English→multiple languages, German→Italian, German→multiple languages
- Introduction: Automatic speech recognition and its integration into computer-assisted interpreting tools offer the potential to help interpreters interpret numbers accurately and effortlessly. However, simply relying on the ASR without a strategic approach may lead to worse, rather than better, performance. This workshop will teach you how to leverage ASR effectively to interpret numbers.
- Key outcomes:
- Identify the potential and limitations of ASR tools in the context of interpreting numbers.
- Pinpoint personal challenges in using ASR effectively for numbers, and understand how to address them.
- Develop and apply strategic approaches to maximise the effectiveness of ASR, ensuring that it complements your interpreting skills rather than detracting from them.
- Available language combinations: English→Italian, English→multiple languages, German→Italian, German→multiple languages
- Technologies: General ASR solutions, InterpretBank, SmarTerp CAI tool
Arrange a workshop
Are you an interpreters association, practice group, educational institution, or an employer of interpreters? Get in touch to arrange a workshop that meets the needs of the participants.