From the President: Continuity and Renewal within ATA
From the President Corinne McKay president@atanet.org Twitter: @corinnemckay ATA has many strengths—including every one of our 10,500 members—and one of our greatest is certainly…
Read MoreAttending ATA59: An Investment in Your Professional Future
From the President-Elect Ted R. Wozniak ted@tedwozniak.net Planning for ATA’s 59th Annual Conference—October 24–27, 2018, in New Orleans—is well underway, so now is the…
Read MoreBoard Meeting Highlights
The American Translators Association’s Board of Directors met April 14–15, 2018, in Alexandria, Virginia. The Board met in conjunction with the Certification Committee and…
Read MoreDoes In-Ear Speech-to-Speech Translation Technology Really Work?
A Review of the Lingmo Translate One2One I’ve been testing and writing about interpreting technology since 2015. Until now, all the technologies I’ve reviewed…
Read MoreFour Truths about Court Interpreting
Both my interpreting students and beginning court interpreter colleagues pursing certification ask me regularly what it’s really like to be a working court interpreter.…
Read MoreThe Care and Feeding of Graders
You can find a lot of information about ATA’s Certification Program on the website and in past articles of The ATA Chronicle, but not…
Read MoreCouples Counseling: Reimagining the Freelancer–Company Relationship
(The following originally appeared as a two-part post in May 2017 on the Interpreters Division blog, www.ata-divisions.org/ID/blog.) I’m not sure that I’m technically qualified…
Read MoreOutside the French Quarter: The “Other” New Orleans
From the President-Elect Ted R. Wozniak ted@tedwozniak.net ATA’s 59th Annual Conference is set for October 24–27, 2018, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Planning for ATA59…
Read MoreBoard Meeting Highlights
The American Translators Association’s Board of Directors met January 20–21, 2018, in Miami, Florida. The meeting followed the Board’s Annual Strategy Day. The Annual…
Read MoreFrom the President: Membership Has Its Benefits: Are You Making the Most of Them?
From the President Corinne McKay president@atanet.org Twitter: @corinnemckay If you’re receiving this issue of The ATA Chronicle, it means that you’ve renewed your ATA…
Read MoreThrough the Looking Glass
They are easy to spot. Capricious, overdemanding interpreters for whom nothing is ever right: the pay is meager, the hours are long, the tasks…
Read MoreLanguage Technology Wiki: A Project “Devoted to Helping Evolve the Next Generation of Language Technology with Your Help”
At the end of last year I made a list of personal and professional achievements from 2017, which made me feel very positive about…
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