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We were keen to learn more about our interpreters’ day-to-life working lives, so we spoke to one of our Arabic business interpreters, to find out exactly what it’s like….

Imagine how much time you could save by having your lectures, seminars, interviews and research material transcribed. No more having to write up your lecture or seminar notes. No more spending hours transcribing hours of interview material. Think what would be possible with all that time saved.

There are so many advantages to telephone interpreting over traditional forms of interpreting. Instant access by telephone to interpreters covering over 150 languages for a start.

With the new Air India service from Delhi flying directly to Birmingham Airport, Birmingham City University is well-placed to welcome students and academic staff from India. The university even has its own India Regional Manager based at the Birmingham campus, and the city itself is home to nearly 65,000 residents of Indian ethnic origin.

We have a number of regular clients for whom we produce Japanese transcriptions and also Japanese to English direct translations from audio. Recently, however, we’ve been enjoying working on a number of subtitling projects for independent film companies. These projects have clearly all been destined for the Japanese market, which means that instead of subtitling from Japanese into English, we have been subtitling from English into Japanese!

Our Russian transcription service for academic research is regularly called upon by students from the University of Sheffield. Working from either video or audio, our Russian transcribers and typists can either produce a same language transcript or a direct translation from Russian into English.

Portuguese is a hugely widely spoken language. It’s the official language of Portugal, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Angola, and São Tomé and Príncipe. Interestingly, it also has co-official language status in East Timor, Equatorial Guinea and Macau (in China). In total there are around 220 million native Portuguese speakers, living all over the world.

University research is pivotal in the development and understanding of the world in which we live and finding the answers to 21^st Century ponderings. More often than not, audio recordings are conducted by universities to assist with this research, whether it be on the topic of medicine, law, science or engineering. Analysis of these recordings is inevitably much easier when you have a written transcript in front of you… And that’s where we come in!

With increasing globalisation, companies frequently have different divisions all over the world. And when businesses have staff working in different countries, then there is a real need to ensure that everyone, in every territory, is up-to-date with company developments. Big business has become increasingly aware of this need to communicate with staff, so many businesses now commission multilingual subtitles for their video content.

Our Portuguese transcription service for academic research is regularly called upon by students and researchers from the University of Manchester. Working from either video or audio, our Portuguese transcribers and typists can either produce a same language transcript or a direct translation from Portuguese into English.

As a project manager for Knockhundred, I spend a lot of time managing the translation of Italian audio speech into English, and in this context was fascinated to read about somebody who reacts to the sound of Italian speech in the same way as I do. Italian voices and the very sound of the language can quite literally reduce me to tears - with pleasure.

Our Spanish transcription service for academic research is regularly called upon by students and researchers from Cardiff University. Working from either video or audio, our Spanish transcribers and typists can either produce a same language transcript or a direct translation from Spanish into English.