Simultaneous / Conference interpreting Services

Simultaneous Conference Interpreting is just part of the full suite of language interpreting services and translation services that we offer.  Serving demanding clients in government departments and the legal sector, our approach is always customer oriented and includes attentive professional advice as standard.  Contact Us or just call 01480 412120 to discuss your requirements.

Simultaneous Conference Interpreting is the complex and highly skilled task of rendering one spoken language into another.  Interpreters, working in teams of two per language, listen to the speaker and at the same time provide an interpretation of what has just been said. A simultaneous interpretation service enables all delegates to hear the speech or presentation at the same time in their native tongue, and allows discussions and presentations to proceed at the same pace as a single language conference.

The simultaneous conference interpreters sit in a soundproof booth listening to the presentation(s) and speak into a microphone; they are able to see the source language speaker and listen to them via headphones.  The message is relayed to the target language listeners through earpieces tuned to the channel that carries their language.  Simultaneous interpreters are usually called conference interpreters.  They are bilingual by definition, but just being bilingual isn’t enough.   Professional conference interpreters invest years in training and practice to reach the standards we require.

All our conference interpreters are qualified and experienced, bringing with them years of conference interpreting practice and professional association to bodies such as the AIIC and the Institute of Translation.  This ensures you will receive only the highest standard of conference interpreting as all have been through vigorous training and examination.  In addition to excellent interpreting skills our conference interpreters conduct thorough research prior to any assignment to ensure they are up to speed with the issues at hand, vocabulary and terminology.   This guarantees that communication across the linguistic divide is smooth and precise.  If you have special requirements such as a need for specialist financial, technical or legal interpreters, we ensure only those interpreters that match your requirement are used  We can supply a complete simultaneous interpretation service, including equipment hire, to enable you to run your multi-language meeting or event.  

Accent Consultants offers a range of interpreting services to meet the needs of our clients.  Whether you need some Whispered Simultaneous Interpreting, a business meeting interpreted consecutively, or help with a simple conversation through Telephone Interpreting we have the right interpreter in our team for your needs.  If you are in need of a talented conference interpreter to provide you with excellent simultaneous conference interpreting services, then look no further.  Our team of experienced, native, qualified simultaneous conference interpreters can assist with all your interpreting needs.  For Simultaneous Conference Interpreting, our interpreters work into their mother tongue.

When is Simultaneous Conference Interpreting used?

Simultaneous Conference Interpreting is useful for big-scale conferences, where there is a significant proportion of the audience who will not understand the source language.  Often, more than one language pair is required.

Accent Consultant Conference Interpreters are frequently engaged to support:

• Pan-European Sales Meetings

• International Association Meetings

• Multi-lingual Conferences

• International Dinners

• International Product Launches

• International Arbitrations

• Twinning Association Meetings

• Diplomatic Proceedings.

We provide full microphone and headset set ups – tailored to the size of your meeting room and the number of speakers – so that all your guests can participate freely.  Our technicians are available at your meeting to fix any glitches, quickly and unobtrusively. 

Our equipment and technicians can support up to 32 languages at a single event.  We provide skilled simultaneous conference interpreters in every world language, including Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of Simultaneous Conference Interpreting?

Simultaneous Conference Interpreting is the only practical choice for multi-lingual conferences – the only way to ensure speakers of many different languages can understand and participate fully.  Done well, it’s almost invisible; the mark of good interpreting is that it fades into the background!

But Simultaneous Conference Interpreting requires sophisticated specialised equipment – and the expertise to set up and run it.  It requires incredibly high skill levels and preparation on the part of the interpreters.   And finally it requires excellent project management to bring all the elements together.  We bring together the right skills and technology to meet and exceed your expectations.

The stakes are high.  A poor Simultaneous Conference Interpreting service will, without a doubt, damage the value and credibility of your meeting.  Good interpreting comes from experience that combines the right skills and technology to deliver an efficient and accurate service; with Accent Consultants you need look no further.

ALL LANGUAGES COVERED, FROM AFRIKAANS TO ZULU