If you’re an interpreter adding a new language or exploring a new subject, speech repositories can be real gold mines.

But what if you’re looking for thousands of hours of authentic, high-level speeches and recordings of the interpretation as delivered? Look no further than the UN Digital Repository, a little-known treasure trove.

In this month‘s column, we‘re focusing on an interpreting mode that is often seen as decidedly low-tech or even no-tech: consecutive.

And chances are that, due to the pandemic, you find yourself doing more consec than usual, and on online video platforms to boot!

So if you want to brush up or enhance your note-taking skills, here are some tech-infused tips to get you started.

Think auto-correct and grammar-checking tools are old hat? Think again! Today, we’d like to tell you about your multilingual writing assistant: LanguageTool.

2020 has been a year of upheaval and changes, but also a year of incredible growth for techforword and our profession overall.

Read our reflections on how we've grown over the last year and for a sneak preview of what lies ahead, plus a list of our most popular webinars, videos, blog posts, and free resources of 2020.

There’s an app for pretty much everything, or so they say. And it’s true that smartphones and tablets have brought us millions and millions of apps to solve nearly every problem under the sun.

But surely you use a handful of sites that don’t have an app or simply work better online. How do you make sure your go-to websites don’t get lost among all those browser tabs? How do you get them to behave more like real apps? SSBs to the rescue!

We don’t know about you, but we’ve been in a heck of a lot of online meetings recently.

And if you’re anything like us, your home office doesn’t look great on camera. So how do we set up our home office to win over clients?

In this month’s column, we’ll share tips for looking and sounding great on video calls. We’ll also let you in on a little secret: a portable green screen so you can look like a pro in no time.

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At a time when online learning is more important than ever, Nathaniel Elcock talks to Alexander Drechsel and Josh Goldsmith from techforword.

Technology is improving due to big data and new approaches to machine translation, but translators and interpreters: Don’t give up your day job.

In last month’s Tech-savvy interpreter 2.0 column, we shared the first part of our discussion with Barry S. Olsen on the history of interpreting technology.

This month, read on to hear Barry’s take on the present and future of technology in interpreting.

Do you often take handwritten notes during meetings? Nothing quite matches the experience of writing by hand, right?

There’s one problem, though: Going back through your notes and digitizing them is such a hassle!

Today, we’ll share why we think Nebo is the go-to app for handwriting conversion and show you five of our favorite features.

When the going gets tough and speeches are fast and furious, it’s hard to interpret every last detail.

Speech recognition technology can help to bridge the gap, feeding you figures and terms from your glossary and reducing your cognitive load.

We sat down for a virtual chat with Barry Olsen to reflect on how interpreting technology has developed in recent years.

This month's column includes the first half of that interview. Or, check out the video of the entire interview below!