Last week, individuals from all major sectors of the interpreting field — community, conference, legal, medical, military, and sign language interpreting — gathered in Washington, D.C. to discuss common ground as well as differences. Organized by InterpretAmerica, the event also featured the presentation of a first-ever, comprehensive study of the North American interpreting marketplace, authored [...]

In September 2009, we wrote, “…we anxiously await the arrival of a Blackberry, iPhone, or Palm application that will be marketed to the masses, to enable the average consumer to dial an interpreter from anywhere in the world. Putting this power into the hands of millions could radically and drastically boost awareness of the availability [...]

Each year, besides predicting what will happen in the coming 12 months, we review what we thought would happen in the prior year. How many of our predictions from December 2008 came true? Let’s take a look.

In January, speech technology provider Nuance Communications announced that it received a US$175 million investment from private equity firm Warburg Pincus and that it would acquire patents from IBM, one of its major competitors in the speech recognition sector. Both the size of the investment and the technology transfer between rivals made these announcements stand [...]