Google Conversation Mode turns Android phones into speech translators, but background noise, accents and fast talk still expose the limits of machine interpreting.
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Google prototype Conversation Mode records speech on Android and plays it back in another language, promising travellers real time translation that still depends on battery and signal.
New Joint Commission standards force hospitals to provide interpreting, turning a chronically under-supplied role into one of the fastest growing jobs in American healthcare.
Oregon endorses the national CMI credential and funds oral exams in five more languages, giving hospitals a single standard for judging whether an interpreter is competent.
Washington's proposed 2 million dollar cut would end Medicaid interpreter subsidies for 70,000 residents, shifting risk and cost onto clinics and patients.
How Joint Commission accreditation standards turned medical interpreting from a hospital courtesy into a reimbursement-linked patient-safety requirement.
More than 150 people applied to interpret the Geordie accent for foreign professionals in Newcastle, exposing a gap standard business English never covers.
An EU directive makes interpretation and translation compulsory in criminal proceedings, turning a fair-trial principle into a budget line member states must fund.
India has chased UN status for Hindi since 2003, but the cost, the two-thirds majority and its own southern states all stand in the way.
Interpreters-on-Call sells vendor-neutral telephony by the minute, removing the one barrier that kept small agencies out of over the phone interpretation.
Why business interpreters work in pairs, what to send them before a meeting and how to brief them, with advice from CILT communications director Teresa Tinsley.