Transcription for interpreting practice?

I know...it's a bit out there. 🪐

But with modern tools, it's easy to use an auto-generated transcription and audio or video recording to analyze your interpretation and provide pinpointed feedback.

Read on to learn more!

Do you dream of interpreting for the European Parliament, the Commission, or the Court of Justice?

You probably know you need to pass the EU accreditation test first!

Read on to learn more about the test and discover our top tips to become accredited with the European institutions.

In December 2021, I ran our first insiders challenge: Overhaul your LinkedIn profile in 9 easy steps.

I offered to showcase the LinkedIn profiles of everyone who completed the challenge.

The catch? They had to take action on their profile within the month.

Over 20 people participated, and it gives me great pride to present the 13 insiders who rose to the challenge and improved their LinkedIn profiles! 💪

Announcing our LinkedIn challenge champions 2022!

Becoming an expert isn’t about the number of hours you put in. It’s how you practice.

And that starts with good practice materials.

Read on to discover my top 4 sources of interpreting practice speeches.

What if the best editing tool you never knew about was in the palm of your hand?

If you've been thinking about tapping into artificial intelligence (AI) to help you write copy or edit translations, you're in luck.

At the end of the day, having the right internet connection, gear, and a quiet work environment only get you so far.

To go beyond that, you have to teach your clients to help you.

We recommend sharing best practices with your clients – and luckily, we’ve put these together for you!

Download our one-pager with 10 easy tips for great online meetings!

Do you have tons of paper notes and glossaries floating around after your interpreting assignments?

Perhaps you've jotted down key terms you want to remember, or a colleague has given you a photocopy of their precious word list.

Instead of keeping those paper glossaries in a drawer somewhere or throwing them out, wouldn't it be great to hang on to all that valuable knowledge?

In this blog post, I’ll share tips to help you make the most of your paper glossaries. 🤩

Email can be the bane of our existence. Like there’s a monster in your inbox that keeps you from getting actual work done!

I designed the Tame your email monster challenge for the techforword insiders community to help fellow professionals like you tackle the overwhelm and develop strategies and habits for efficient email management.

In previous articles, I’ve touched on why we love tablets for interpreting and how to use a tablet for consecutive interpreting.

In this article, I’ll answer a question that pops up among techforword fans and insiders ... at least once a month. 😅

In December 2021, I ran our first insiders challenge: Overhaul your LinkedIn profile in 9 easy steps.

I offered to showcase the LinkedIn profiles of everyone who completed the challenge.

The catch? They had to take action on their profile within the month.

Over 20 people participated, and it gives me great pride to present the six insiders who rose to the challenge and improved their LinkedIn profiles! 💪

Announcing our LinkedIn challenge champions!

Unsure about using a tablet as a digital notepad for interpreting? Wondering how to take notes on your tablet or take it to the next level with multitasking? Looking for the best consecutive note-taking app?

This article will show you how to use a tablet for consecutive note-taking.

Check out this interview with Lilia Pino Blouin about her experience with a new hybrid interpreting technique, SightConsec.

In this technique, the interpreter uses automatic speech recognition to transcribe speech in real time, then interprets from the transcription when the speaker pauses.

Read on to learn more about Lilia’s experience with this exciting new technique - or check out the video of our interview!

techforword’s round up of Black Friday deals for translators, interpreters and language professionals, including 30% off all our courses and an incredible deal on techforword insiders!

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.

Without a doubt, the easiest path to solid audio during remote meetings is to invest in a USB headset.

But questions abound. Where should you place the microphone to avoid popping sounds? What makes a headset high quality? Do you need a noise-cancelling microphone? Do built-in limiters really work?

In this column, we’ll answer these questions and share our suggestions for finding your perfect interpreting headset.

As more and more interpreting work has gone online, the quest for the perfect headphones has begun in earnest.

Yet unpacking the jargon and discovering your ideal pair of headphones is quite the challenge! 

After all, headphones come in all shapes and sizes. And the terminology used to describe all these shapes and sizes can be overwhelming.

Never fear - we’re here to help! 

We've been huge proponents of tablets for interpreting for over a decade. And when the first tablets came out, we wondered how this new technology could be used for interpreting -- we're curious about everything, like all interpreters!

So we started poking around and discovered countless reasons why tablets make great interpreting companions.

In this article, we share some of our favorite ways to use tablets for preparation, consecutive interpreting and in the booth.

Over the last two months, we’ve been hard at work on our second e-book: The Interpreter's Guide to Audio and Video.

For this book, Josh teamed up with renowned interpreting expert Naomi Bowman to help you take the stress out of audio and video.

The end is in sight, and we're excited to announce that we’ll be releasing our brand new e-book on Monday, June 7th! 🎉

But first, we thought we’d kick things off in style - with a giveaway!