subject: How Conference Interpreters Work [print this page] Business conferences are large affairs that often bring business people from across the country and sometimes from around the globe. If you have some foreign-speaking business members attending your conference, it is important to make sure they can understand the message you are trying to portray. Without that message, there is no point in coming to your conference, which means they have wasted their time and money and will have a poor opinion of your company and its purpose. Conference interpreters can make all the difference
The Presenter
When you make use of an interpreter for your conference, the presenter doesnt have to change a thing about the way he presents. All he needs to do is go through his presentation as he would if everyone in the room spoke English. The interpreter will take care of the translating and portraying the exact same information to the non-English speakers. However, it can often be beneficial for the presenter to speak more slowly than he would if there was no interpreter involved.
The Interpreter
In many cases, conference interpreters will sit in a sound proof booth, listening to the presenter through headphones. This allows him to know exactly what he needs to say in his specialty language. As he listens, he will need to translate the spoken word into another language and speak it into a microphone. With this simultaneous interpretation, the non-English speakers wont need to wait to find out what the person on the stage is saying.
The Non-English Speaker
Those who dont speak English at the conference will be given a set of headphones to wear during the presentation. It is through these headphones the attendees will be able to hear the presentation in their own native language. The attendees who are wearing the headphones will still be able to see the presentation live and will receive the information with only a slight delay, allowing them to keep up in their own language so they can understand better and gather the same information as everyone else.
There are many benefits to choosing conference interpreters when you have people in the audience who are not native English speakers. The presenter wont need to worry about changing anything about the way he presents. Instead, his audio feed will play in a sound proof booth so the interpreter can speak in the secondary language into the microphone. This new feed will play in the headphones of the non-English speakers in the audience, allowing them to hear everything at almost the same time as everyone else.
