Introduction
Communicating with precision is critical, and especially important for businesses involving medical, technical or legal subject matter. The complexity grows significantly when communicating with customers, patients or colleagues who speak little to no English. This is why there are local, state, federal and international mandates requiring high-quality interpreters for these types of organizations.
Global interpreter networks can serve as an important part of this value-chain. Since linguists are the backbone of any translation service, such a network offers linguistic expertise across the majority of languages spoken across the world. Each member of such a network usually undergoes a rigorous selection process, ensuring they meet the required standards for proficiency, professionalism, and ethical conduct. These linguists not only translate languages but convey cultures, emotions, and nuances, ensuring true understanding in every interaction.
In this Blog, we will describe global interpreter networks in more detail, On-The-Phone Interpreting (OPI), and the benefits of leveraging such networks for an individual’s or company’s on-the-phone interpreting needs.
What Is A Global Interpreter Network
Interpreting services make it possible for medical services to be safely provided around the world. They aid diplomacy, international trade, and ensure legal proceedings are fair and equitable. On a granular level, interpreters helps immigrants deal with administrative processes, receive quality healthcare, and make themselves heard during legal processes.
They serve a very important role in the smooth functioning of society, especially as diversity and multiculturalism grows in importance. These organizations consist of a network of connected linguists spread across the world, who can deliver interpreting services in any language with the right cultural context.
A best-in-class interpreting network offers several different services in the areas of localization, translation, and interpreting. Aside from these baseline over-the-phone and in-person services, such networks also make remote interpreting services available for both companies and individuals across the world.
Growing Demand Of These Networks
While ‘black swan’ events such as the COVID-19 pandemic have impacted globalized businesses in every country, the rate of international trade remains steady. In fact, the DHL Global Connectedness Index’s shows that the globalization of trade, capital and information flows had already surpassed pre-pandemic levels in 2021, and this trend accelerated in 2022. There is without doubt a growing demand for multi-language translation services, and the interpreters that enable these services.
Global Interpreter Networks have therefore emerged as essential components for solving these interpretation needs.
How Global Interpreter Networks Are Designed
A Global Interpreter Network is a seamless node of linguists located across the world, and uniquely designed to facilitate real-time language interpretation and translation services across the globe.
1) These networks are an innovative solution that facilitates seamless communication between people who speak different languages.
2) They are a centralized system that offers access to professional interpreters through various modes such as audio and video.
3) They are designed to cater to diverse sectors, including healthcare, legal, education, and business, ensuring that language barriers do not impede effective communication.
On-The-Phone Interpreting
It goes without saying that communicating effectively across languages is not possible without interpreters. On-the-phone interpreting is an important solution for short-notice and on-demand interpretation, meeting a company’s translation needs as they arise. Such short-notice options are a critical resource for business, medical, and emergency services that often require interpreters at a moment’s notice.
1) Finding experienced, certified interpreters who work over the phone can be very difficult.
2) For legally relevant settings, interpreters must be certified for their translations and interpretations to be admissible in court.
3) Medical situations benefit from working with a medically certified interpreter to ensure communication accuracy between patient and practitioner.
Benefits Of A Global Interpreter Network For On-The-Phone Interpreting
There are three benefits of a global interpreter network, when it comes to on-the-phone interpreting services:
1) Quick connection: Since there is someone in the network that is available somewhere in the world, connection can happen within minutes.
2) 24/7 access: Time differences or work hours don’t matter with a global network of available interpreters. There will be someone qualified to interpret at any time.
3) Global availability: No matter where the need is across the world or the language requiring interpretation, there will be someone in the network available to assist.
Conclusion
Well known global interpreter networks consist of a large group of linguists, who work as interpreters and often as translators. They have professional work experience and come with the following skills:
1) Familiarity with both the languages desired and the cultures being represented
2) Extensive vocabulary in the languages they interpret
3) Ability to express thoughts clearly and concisely in the required languages
4) General knowledge of the subjects being interpreted
Whether it is conferences, international business negotiations, or simple cross-cultural communication, companies need these interpreter networks so they can successfully communicate in any language of the world.
Language Scientific is the only on-the-phone interpretation service provider with the “Language Expertise Program” network (LEPnetwork™), with 4,000 worldwide professional linguists.
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