AI has changed the events and interpreting industry, and until now I have spent most of my time interpreting from the booth. But now we hear more and more about AI solutions that are supposed to reduce costs and be more efficient. During my last assignment at a global team meeting online, it became clear that machine intelligence is not the go-to tool for simultaneous interpreting! In this particular setting, one participant came from Ireland. For years now, we’ve been famili

Last week, I attended the AI in Translation Summit to explore Artifical Intelligence from a professional, ethical and business standpoint, along with 2,500+ language professionals from all over the globe. For 3 days, we learnend and discussed about tools and techniques, mindset and growth, as well as ethics and confidentiality when working with AI. All this input has left me highly inspired and motivated to navigate the exciting developments in Large Language Models and chatb

Hey ChatGPT, how do human interpreters differ from AI? That's a very good question — it touches on key differences between human and artificial language mediation. Here are the most important distinguishing features between human interpreters and AI interpreting systems : 🧠 1. Cognitive and emotional intelligence Humans understand not only words, but also context, emotion, irony, culture and intention . A human interpreter recognises whether someone is speaking sarcastic

Ok, let‘s be honest: we all have used DeepL once or twice in our everyday (business) lives. Interpreters and translators do, too (we have to do our research, don’t we?). DeepL is not new, and there were times when we were rather surprised at how natural and fluent the output seemed at first glance. Lately, however, we’ve noticed that AI translations are getting worse rather than better. There is an increased number of inconsistencies, it struggles with maintaining accurate gr

AI has changed our everyday lives. Artificial intelligence has become indispensable in our professional lives, and especially in our private lives. Most of us take it for granted; we ask our smartphones to set the timer, let fitness trackers count our steps and analyse our sleep, have Netflix recommend movies according to our viewing habits, and turn on the sat-nav to get to our destination. Professionally, I also sometimes use AI when preparing for an assignment, provided I

To mark today's International Translation Day, which I am celebrating for the 19th time this year as a member of the BDÜ, I had to dig...

Another year, another KNH youth conference! Since 2018, we‘ve been supporting the German children’s relief organisation Kindernothilfe...

It's that time of year again! 2024 is coming to a close, and that's my cue to post my BestOf, looking back on my most favourite and...

This October, my fellow interpreting colleague Andrea Wilming from Proscenium and I had the great honour and pleasure of offering our interpreting services at the German Dance Award at the Aalto Theatre in Essen. The German Dance Award is considered the most prestigious prize for dance in Germany.We decided to start a series on LinkedIn to offer (potential) customers and anyone interested a glimpse behind the scenes. This summary of said series shall give you an overview of

On 29th May, the RVR Association celebrated 25 years of Industrial Heritage Route with a kick-off event at Zollverein UNESCO World...