Translators and interpreters are being told to adapt to new tech or leave their profession. Independent research is showing that the tech is flawed and dangerous. Probably exploitative too.
It's time for a healthy, open conversation that involves mutual respect.
#interpreting #translation #technology #AI

Interpreting has three foundational principles:
- impartiality,
- neutrality, and
- accuracy.

The first two have already been questioned by research. Could the third be next?
#interpreting #ethics

Top ten posts in September 2025

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/10/01/top-ten-posts-in-september-2025/

#93 #aleisterCrowley #AlejandroJordorowsky #alexandria #alienIdeals #alive #ancientMesopotamia #AndrewChumbley #Anhiliantion #antiquity #AntoineFaivre #arthurVersluis #Aye #babalon #balance #becoming #bestPosts #bestTen #Blondie #brainWorm #BrendanWalls #calendar #CeesLeijenhorst #children #ChrisCarr #ChristianGnosticText #ChristianTheosophicLiterature #ChristopherChungWaiWong #circle #Codex #concept #conquest #cripple #cryptid #cyprianTheMagician #DaniëlVanEgmond #Darkly #deform #demonicDeity #dinosaurs #discourse #DonnerstagAusLicht #EarlyRosicrucianism #EarlyTwentiethCentury #eclipse #education #EighteenthCentury #ElsieGrayParker #Ennead #EsotericConnection #esotericTradition #feast #FivePointedStar #FrancescoPatrizi #FraterYechidah #GaryLachman #glass #gnosis #GnosticEthics #GnosticMyths #Gnosticism #gods #goldenDawn #goldenToad #gospel #GreekEucharist #grimoire #healing #HeartOfDarkness #hermes #HermeticEthics #HermeticLodge #hermeticOrderOfTheGoldenDawn #hermeticPhilosophy #HermeticSpirituality #hermeticTradition #hermeticism #hermetism #hidden #HiroyukiTakeuchi #HistoricalImagination #holyMountain #HRT #IanDrummond #images #influences #Interpreting #JRBobDobbs #JanHelderman #JeanPierreMahé #jesus #JohannesVanOort #JosVanMeurs #JoscelynGodwin #KarenClaireVoss #kundalini #laborDay #LateNineteenthCentury #LesGoldman #liberLegis #liberXxxi #magic #Manichaeism #manuscript #mayDay #MedievalGnostics #MelaniaTrump #meme #Merlin #MettenerArmenbibel #MichaelOLeary #middle #modernTimes #money #moon #music #NagHammadi #NewAgeMovement #Nibbāṇa #nimüe #ninetyThree #occult #Ogdoad #Olla #OnTheEducationOfChildren #one #opposites #panacea #parasiticPerversions #path #Pazuzu #poetry #presence #propaganda #pythagoras #reading #red #rejoice #RenaissanceHermeticism #RepresentativeTexts #return #reverence #right #RockAndRoll #RoelofVanDenBroek #RoelofvanDenBroek #RolandEdighoffer #RomanMassGillesQuispel #romanticism #salvation #SecondForm #sendMoney #September2025 #sevenDeadlySins #SeventeenthCentury #ShawnGray #SigilsOfTheScales #solidarity #soul #Source #sources #spiritualAlchemy #standards #Stockhausen #summary #summaryOfTheMonth #sun #Tenchijin #TheAsclepius #TheBeast #TheBookOfTheLaw #TheBookOfTheSubGenius #TheCathars #theEast #theEyeInTheTriangle #TheGoddessAndTheSerpent #TheRevivalOfMagick #thelema #time #topPosts #topTen #touched #truth #twinPillars #TwoRoads #tylenol #VarjaMath #vase #wallet #westernChristianity #WesternEsotericSchools #WesternEsotericTraditions #westernEsotericism #WilfriedSätty #WilliamBlake #WishFulfilling #wormhole #WouterJHanegraaff #wrong #天地人

Call for papers: IfTra workshop on transfer @ Translation in Transition 2026

The next Translation in Transition conference is taking place September 9-11, 2026 at #RWTHAachen. As part of this, IfTra organises a workshop on #transfer activities and projects which bring knowledge from #translation and #interpreting #research into other academic fields or practice. If you would like to report on your activity or project, submit a 500 words abstract by January 5, 2026: https://www.anglistik.rwth-aachen.de/cms/Anglistik/Forschung/Konferenzen-Veranstaltungen/Translation-in-Transition-Conference/~bofdjv/Registration-Submission/

Registration & Submission | Die Anglistik und Amerikanistik | RWTH Aachen University | DE

#introduction

salut 

¿ porque a mi primo y mi prima solo los oigo hablar en castellano cuando se pelean o me gastan bromas ?

dlaczego mi mówią moje kolegi po polsku tylko "kapusta, głowa pusta" ?

mit solchen fragen rund um sprachen möchte ich mich hier mit eurer hilfe höchstwissenschaftlich gegeneinandersetzen

and by the way, I am a student in conference #interpreting , living in #Brussels and happy to chat about books, night trains and wikipedia

corrigez mes erreurs :D

#tech #AI
It used to be common for people to predict that AI would take most #interpreting work, with humans doing special cases. As evidence keeps emerging of the weaknesses, inaccuracies and downright craziness of AI interpreting systems, it's likely that the opposite is true.
Good human professional interpreters are flexible and can handle anything from sales conferences to summits. Computers are only useful when the stakes are low.
Ein großes Dankeschön an alle Teilnehmenden für diese intensive und inspirierende Zeit! ✨

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@unimainz #Sommerschule #SummerSchool #Dolmetschen #Interpreting
Künstliche Intelligenz und Zukunft Sprachdienstleistungen – Fachbereich 06 – FTSK

One-week internship at UNOV

After studying simultaneous interpreting for two semesters, we took part in a one-week internship at UNOV. For us, this was more than just a way to put a year of learning into practice – it was also an opportunity to step into the booth, gain insight into the daily work of professional interpreters up close, and continue building our skills through hands-on experience......

Further details could be found at https://www.instagram.com/p/DNpAPIFO03M/

#cuhk #cuhktranslation #unov #interpreting #internship

It turns out that speech translation systems have been massively and systematically exaggerating the capabilities of their systems by using tests that have been known to be flawed for at least a decade.

Now that people are taking their claims seriously, the truth is coming out.

#tech #ai #interpreting #translation

The Promise and Pitfalls of China’s AI Sign Language Interpreters

Broadcasters have embraced the tech in the name of boosting accessibility. But few bother to stop and ask what China’s #Deaf community thinks about the interpreters.

#SignLanguage #Interpreting

https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1017316

The Promise and Pitfalls of China’s AI Sign Language Interpreters

Broadcasters have embraced the tech in the name of boosting accessibility. But few bother to stop and ask what China’s Deaf community thinks about the interpreters.

#SixthTone