Phone Interpreting
Do you need telephone interpreting? We can provide high-quality phone interpreters for you – all you need is to contact our manager right now!
We think that the translation and interpretation services are primarily based on quality, so all of our translators and interpreters have relevant training, credentials, and excellent feedback from customers.
Situations When You Need Over-The-Phone Interpretation
You never know what may happen to you in life!
You can have some issues in your personal life:
- You’ve lost your documents and phone in a country whose language you don’t speak
- You need to talk to a doctor who does not speak your language because you are worried about your child who had an injury
- You have an issue with the police in a foreign country, and you don’t understand what the policeman wants from you. He has no intention of arresting you, but he needs to tell you something important before he lets you go. But what exactly is he trying to say?
You may also have some emergency situations at your workplace:
- You are on a shift at a hospital, and suddenly you are surrounded by the patient’s relatives who don’t speak your language. And they seem to want something from you.
- There is a foreign refugee who seems to be pleading for help, but he is doing so in a language you don’t know.
- You meet any person at your workplace who cannot explain complex things to you. His basic English is not enough to explain, for instance, why something does not work as it should.
You may try using the language of gestures in all these cases, of course. But why resort to such measures if you have phone interpretation available at hand? Just call us and get an expert on the line.
Phone Interpreters at Work: Procedure
Telephone interpretation is accessible from all corners of the globe. You call, connect the interpreter to the conversation, and get your message across quite efficiently.
Telephone interpretation is usually done consecutively, meaning that the speaker says something and waits for the interpreter to say it in another language.
However, there are situations when simultaneous interpretation should be done (for example, if negotiations are being conducted by phone with multiple partners involved). Simultaneous interpretation is done along with the speaker, but this type of service requires simultaneous translators only, the highest-paid specialists in the industry. Simultaneous interpretation is the most difficult interpretation genre, so it is used mostly for conferences and large-scale events. But if you need simultaneous interpretation over the phone, we can provide the service to you.
Phone interpreting can be used in multiple settings, including conversations between two or more parties, legal or medical settings, interpretation for immigration purposes or political asylum granting issues, or even for examinations passed under oath.
Do not hesitate to contact our manager to get more details or request the service straight away.
Why Professional Telephone Interpretation Is Needed
If the situation is serious, there should be no room for doubts.
Suppose you got a court summons that you need to be translated – or at least you need an interpreter to read it and say what the matter is. What can happen if you give this important document to a janitor working nearby who claims to know two languages? He may know the spoken language quite well, but the legal terms may be all Greek to him. And you don’t want to be told you are going to be arrested and later find out it was a mistake, do you?
The same may happen if you need to know the diagnosis. Interpreting the doctor’s speech or making a screenshot of a written document for the phone interpreter to read and tell you what the matter is will be a much more reliable way to get the information you need quickly and not to worry too much.
Engaging professionals will mean that:
- Your conversation is sure to be translated quickly and efficiently
- Both parties will understand the message in every detail and have their minds clear
- You will get the services day or night in any part of the globe, and in virtually any dialect
Quick Facts About Telephone Interpretation
- Telephone interpreting is the most cost-effective solution for companies.
- If you have a preferred interpreter who cannot attend the conference in person, telephone interpreting will come in useful.
- Telephone interpreting can be done anonymously if you need to make a sensitive call.
- Telephone interpreter service is indispensable in case of emergencies or any other unexpected issues that may arise.
- If you are in a place that is hard to access, phone interpreting services may even save your life.
We at HumanTranslation have a pool of professional over-the-phone simultaneous and consecutive interpreters who will help you out. Contact us to be connected to a specialist.
What makes a good translation? First of all, a high-quality source text. If this is a marketing piece of translation, for instance, and the original seems to convey some vague message that is hard to understand for the translator, it will be just as vague for the reader. Therefore, the customer should be prepared to work on the text to get a really good translation, and the translator should be ready to ask the customer to do so. This will make cooperation really beneficial – contrary to the “I-need-the-translation-quickly” approach that may not bear the fruit you want.
Ask the client about the country for which the translation is intended. The Arabic dialect required for Saudi Arabia will differ from the one appropriate for Egypt or Lebanon.
Most Arabic translations will require transcreation due to major cultural differences between English and Arab countries.
The target audience will determine the level of formality required in Arabic texts, so be sure to find out all the required information from the client.
The more important the translation, the higher quality should be agreed upon with the customer. High quality is achieved by editing, sometimes by several editors; it may add up to the cost, but it will finally pay off.
