Introduction to Remote Interpreting Skills
Learn about OPI, VRI and RSI challenges and the ways to prepare for them
Description
Learn about the basic skills of remote interpreting and find out how to overcome the specific challenges posed by remote interpreting.
Why do you need to take this course?
There has been a significant increase in remote interpreting assignments over the past few years. Even if you have a lot of on-site or face-to-face interpreting experience, you will find that remote interpreting presents very different challenges and requires certain additional skills. Learning about these challenges in advance, and being prepared to deal with them, will make your remote interpreting more fluent and efficient, and will make your remote assignments less stressful and more enjoyable.
What will you learn in this course?
This course was created to help interpreters understand the specific challenges that remote interpreting poses and find out how they can overcome these challenges. The following topic will be covered :
Over-the-phone interpreting:
Awareness of the challenges of the OPI
Preparation for the assignment
Protocol (introductions, asking for clarifications, dealing with a bad line, etc)
Building rapport and dealing with uncertainty
Turn-taking and managing the speakers where necessary
Voice Training
Video Remote Interpreting: specific technical issues
Remote simultaneous interpreting - introducing RSI platforms
Are there any course requirements or prerequisites?
Being bilingual or proficient in at least two languages
Having some interpreting experience, formal or informal
Other training opportunities
This course is one of the training offerings of TRANSLIT Pro. Check out other events by Svetlana O'Farrell, TRANSLIT Pro Training Development Manager, to see our other courses
What You Will Learn!
- Remote Interpreting skills
- Over-the-phone interpreting (OPI)
- Video remote interpreting (VRI)
- Remote simultaneous interpreting (RSI)
Who Should Attend!
- Interpreters who want to learn about remote interpreting skills so as not to miss new opportunities