How Assistive Listening Systems Support Courtroom Interpreting

By The ATA Chronicle | June 23, 2024

Interpreters may encounter diverse types of assistive listening systems in courtrooms. Each system helps listeners hear better by delivering clear audio directly to their ears, but the technology used to achieve that goal can vary. This is what courtroom interpreters should know about assistive listening technologies.

Five Ways to Encourage Patient Self-Reliance and Autonomy for Health Care Interpreters

By The ATA Chronicle | April 24, 2024

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How to Help Everyone Cross the Linguistic Bridge: Tips for Accessible Digital Translation and Interpreting

By The ATA Chronicle | April 24, 2024

Your work as a T&I professional touches many, including individuals with disabilities. By adding accessibility checks to your process, you’ll be helping everyone cross the linguistic bridge.

Extraditions: Concepts, Research Techniques, and Terminology

By The ATA Chronicle | March 5, 2024

Cases involving extraditions pose particular challenges for translators and interpreters. Proper language transfers require researching bilateral international treaties and the domestic laws of the respective countries. Understanding the extradition process is also key to ensuring adequate communication, and proper terminology normalization regarding legal principles often requires researching the writings of legal scholars. Careful research contributes to a useful product that helps lead to a just outcome for all parties involved.

E101: Inside Specialization – Veterinary Translation

By ATA | February 28, 2024

This episode of Inside Specialization showcases Veronica Leibaschoff and her journey as a veterinary translator, the unique space she has occupied, how she has kept current in her niche career!

E99: Inside Specialization – Sports Interpreting

By ATA | January 31, 2024

This Inside Specialization interview brings you Anabella Tidona as she details how she got into the exciting field of sports interpreting!

The Legal Duty of Care: What Is It and How Does It Impact the Role of the Judiciary Interpreter?

By The ATA Chronicle | December 21, 2023

The concept of a judiciary interpreter’s duty of care toward limited-English-proficient individuals is not a topic that gets addressed. Let’s look at the legal concept from a language access perspective and explore how the standard of care required by due process guarantees can delineate a duty of care that informs the professional best practices in the legal domain.

E97: Inside Specialization – Beauty And Cosmetic Translation

By ATA | December 19, 2023

In this Inside Specialization interview, we hear from Berenice Font, who has specialized in the beauty and cosmetic industry for more than 15 years as a translator, transcreator, copywriter, editor, and consultant.

E95: Inside Specialization – Opportunities in the Era of AI

By ATA | November 30, 2023

In this ATA Podcast episode of Inside Specialization, Daniel Sebesta, ATA’s Language Technology Division (LTD) administrator, and Bridget Hylak, LTD assistant administrator, interview Konstantin Dranch, co-founder of Custom.MT, on a variety of topics surrounding machine translation and AI.

E92: Inside Specialization – Audiovisual Translation with a PhD

By ATA | September 18, 2023

Listen as ATA member Angélica Ramírez offers insights about how language postgraduate education has evolved in the 21st century and audiovisual specialization.

E90: Inside Specialization – Food and Wine Translation

By ATA | August 16, 2023

In this episode, we interview ATA member and food and wine translator Adam Sachs about the ins and outs of culinary translation.

Educational Translation and Interpreting: Strategies to Help Your Office Become Part of the Planning Process

By The ATA Chronicle | March 24, 2023

This is the story of how a small team of language professionals worked together to transition a school district’s translation and interpreting needs from being an afterthought to a fully integrated part of the planning process.