These days, web conferencing and online meetings, parties in a business interaction – or inter-departmental session– have grown accustomed to making presentations or passively following a meeting remotely, from the comfort of their offices or home offices. With a few adjustments in their environment, and minor tweaks to their normal office equipment, they can make their meetings productive. As long as everyone speaks the same language!

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Where more than one language is spoken but where not all participants can understand all languages., a new set of key players – interpreters – need to be brought onboard.

Your interpreters are the most important element of any simultaneous interpretation service. There is no substitute for a professionally trained, time-served conference interpreter. Simultaneous interpreting is another skill-level up from consecutive interpreting, so only qualified interpreters should be used.

Interpreting is a very skilled and intensive job and so the adaption for interpreters working from a “home studio”, is not so simple! For some of the reasons below:

Conference interpreting is a team effort, and interpreters usually work in pairs, taking turns every 30 minutes or so.
They are used to working side by side and assisting each other in well-equipped sound-isolation booths.
Interpreting is a demanding mental task requiring total focus, and interpreters have very little residual processing capacity for anything else.
Given the mental concentration involved, interpreters need a quiet environment offering no distractions (loud or sudden ambient noise, interruptions, etc.)
virtual-boothSo, while still technically possible, asking interpreters to work from a home office – or an impromptu booth – is not something we recommend, given the risk of meeting discontinuity due to technical issues beyond their control.

SICL studios provide interpreters with a familiar and controlled environment from which to service meetings anywhere in the World, while upholding the standards, superior audio and video quality and the desirable teamwork and booth etiquette. At a SICL studio, interpreters can continue to work in teams, and every variable that can be controlled is being controlled and monitored by a technician on stand-by.