Conference Interpreting Phoenix – Simultaneous Translation in Arizona
Phoenix is a huge destination spot for business meetings, as well as general vacationers alike. The weather is great virtually year round (okay, summers are blistering) and with a major international airport, it's an easy city for business travelers to get in and out of. Golfing is available virtually 365 days year, which also makes it desirable to business executives.
There are many outstanding hotels and resorts with large meeting spaces designed to lure meeting planners to the Valley of the Sun, as well as the newly-redesigned Phoenix Convention Center which offers complete up-to-date facilities for the largest of conferences. If you are planning a large and/or international event in Phoenix, have you considered the need for simultaneous interpreting?
Meeting planners have a tendency to forget that not all attendees are fluent in English and may need translation assistance onsite. Sometimes organizers don't find this out until it's too late, after the meeting has begun, and embarrassment is the result. Sometimes there is even a last-minute scramble to find a conference interpreting company that can race to the scene …
Simultaneous interpreting is a great service in that it allows the translation to occur in real time. Interpreters listen to the speaker via a set of headphones and broadcast their translation (on a special frequency) to unique radios that audience members wear. Thus, the conference runs at normal pace and foreign listeners are only seconds behind the rest of the audience in comprehension. This is the ideal scenario because there is no disruption of the meeting.
Sometimes consecutive interpreting is used. It's a much slower process. This means that the speaker must wait until the interpreter translates a sentence or two, then resume the message. It can be a tedious process for ALL attendees, especially if the speech is a long one. You will often find a number of people taking the opportunity for a restroom break. Yes, consecutive interpretation is cheaper alternative, but is it really worth the pain?
Chris Redish owns A Bridge Between Nations, a Phoenix Conference Interpreting company which operates worldwide and all across the USA. He would be happy to provide you with a free translation estimate for your next conference.
