Best Practices for Virtual Interpreting: What Clients and Language Service Users Should Know

By ATA Compass | February 9, 2026

Thanks to rapid technological shifts and the global landscape of recent years, the demand for virtual interpreting services has increased. Virtual interpreting is a…

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Guide to Buying Interpreting Services, Part V: Interpreting Terms to Know

By ATA Compass | December 3, 2025

Interpreters help power the global economy, working with businesses, governments, non-profits and individuals. They are an integral part of global communication. Interpreters work with…

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Translation and Educational Publishing: Creating Language Access in Education

By ATA Compass | December 3, 2025

Supporting families starts with access. When students bring home a book or a school letter that families can read in their own language, something…

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When AI Doesn’t Replace Jobs: The Case of Visual Dubbing in Watch the Skies

By ATA Compass | November 11, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) is often framed as a threat to all kinds of jobs. Many believe automation and AI will fully take over a…

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Guide to Buying Interpreting Services, Part IV: ATA’s Credentialed Interpreter (CI) Designation

By ATA Compass | November 5, 2025

ATA’s Language Services Directory has a Credentialed Interpreter (CI) designation to indicate ATA members who are also credentialed interpreters. This designation is discussed in…

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Guide to Buying Interpreting Services, Part III: Working with an Interpreter

By ATA Compass | October 1, 2025

Interpreters help power the global economy, working with businesses, governments, non-profits and individuals. They are an integral part of global communication. Interpreters work with…

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Using AI for Language Translation: Context is Everything

By ATA Compass | September 23, 2025

Using AI for Language Translation: Context is Everything Without a doubt, artificial intelligence provides exciting opportunities for us to innovate and automate tasks in…

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Guide to Buying Interpreting Services, Part II: Interpreting Modality and Modes

By ATA Compass | September 3, 2025

Interpreters work in a variety of settings and in a variety of ways. These are important to understand when hiring an interpreter or team…

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The Value of Human Translation

By ATA Compass | August 20, 2025

This article was originally published on the Translorial blog and has been reposted here with the author’s consent. Can impactful human-to-human communications be outsourced…

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Guide to Buying Interpreting Services, Part I: Finding and Choosing an Interpreter

By ATA Compass | August 6, 2025

Interpreters help power the global economy, working with businesses, governments, non-profits and individuals. They are an integral part of global communication. Interpreters work with…

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Fluent Isn’t Enough: The Value of Trained Educational Interpreters

By ATA Compass | July 30, 2025

The importance of hiring professional educational interpreters Supporting families starts with communication. Trained educational interpreters play a key role in making that possible. Schools…

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Best Translation Apps: A Translator Puts Four to the Test

By ATA Compass | July 23, 2025

The best apps for translating language? It depends… I’m talking about the kind of apps that can take a sentence- or even document-level input…

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