Making Multilingual Virtual Meetings More Accessible
Making Multilingual Virtual Meetings More Accessible
The Covid pandemic has disrupted the operations of corporations and governments pressuring everyone around the world to adapt and switch to a business continuity model that encompasses virtual meetings, working from home and virtual conferences.
These institutions need to maintain their diplomatic and multilateral meetings and conferences around the most important global issues. While all institutions have become more comfortable with the virtual and remote work worlds, it came with many challenges.
One of the largest challenges these institutions faced was managing the technical side of the conference organisation. Questions such as “How can one combine in-person attendees, online participants and interpreters?” have become a common feat. Before the pandemic, multilingual meetings and conferences could be managed by a small team whereas now a meeting needs a moderator, IT training, and tech support which can grow the team to over 10 people. Multilingual events and their interpreters faced even more severe issues such as financial problems, connectivity issues and low sound quality.
Postponing and cancelling events is not an option in these unprecedented times but it is essential for both corporate and government institutions to speedily become technologists and understand things like the need for good sound quality, good speech quality and fixed internet connection.
Remote Simultaneous Interpretation enables delegates and interpreters to work from a distance and locations around the world. Through the Congress Rental Network, we’ve launched a platform that is applicable on both Windows and iOS that can virtually connect your speakers to your audience, while providing interpretation services for any language. For RSI to work, language interpreters simply Livestream an event and interpret it into the desired language. All that is required is a secure and stable fixed Internet line, noting that Wi-Fi is not reliable enough for this service.
The Congress Rental team has made it our business to recreate human connection online by making use of available technology to meet your objective in setting up engaging events that are both remote and in-person AND multilingual. Our vision is a fully flexible system.
Interprefy Housekeeping Video
Our associate, Interprefy, has launched a housekeeping video campaign to help seekers sound their best at interpreted meetings! This clip summarises the do’s and don’ts for speakers. Click on the icon to watch!
