Interpreting Technologies – Current and Future Trends

Download or read book Interpreting Technologies – Current and Future Trends written by Gloria Corpas Pastor and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2023-10-09 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While interpreting long remained unaffected by the technological progress that transformed the translation industry, recent years have witnessed a paradigm shift, such that interpreters increasingly interact with technological tools, that the delivery of interpreting services becomes increasingly dependent on technologies, and, finally, that technologies start to emerge that might some day compete with interpreters. This volume brings together a series of contributions on interpreting technologies focusing on each of these aspects. Its goal is to inform and to empower interpreters, as well as to spark new reflections on the future of technology in the interpreting industry. With this volume, we want to encourage interpreters to participate in that reflection and to become partners of technology rather than its victims. The next generation of technologies will need a next generation of interpreters!