Organizer: AIICSwitzerland
Location: Rue de Zurich 19 Novotel Geneva 1201 CH
On Saturday September 20, 2025 Josh Goldsmith, from Techforword, will be giving a one day training on “Speech recognition for interpreters”.
Here are the details:
Date: Saturday, September 20, 2025 from 09:00 to 17:30.
Location: Novotel Geneva, Rue Zurich 19, 1201 Geneva
Trainer: Josh Goldsmith
Training: Speech recognition for interpreters (see description below)
Participants: 20 (maximum number of participants)
Registration fee:
Members of AIIC: CHF 100.00 (EURO – 107.00)
Non-members: CHF 200.00 (EURO – 214.00)
Unlock the power of speech recognition and elevate your interpreting skills in this dynamic full-day workshop. Numbers, dates, names, and terminology can be particularly tricky, but cutting-edge AI tools can ease the stress, allowing you to focus on delivering top-quality interpreting. Through hands-on training, you’ll explore the best speech recognition solutions for online and onsite meetings, simultaneous and consecutive settings. Get ready to test-drive industry-leading tools, refine your techniques, and gain practical insights
tailored to the needs of interpreters. Join us and discover how AI-driven speech recognition can transform the way you work!
Josh Goldsmith is a UN- and EU-accredited translator and interpreter and AIIC member working from Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese and Catalan into English. He splits his time between interpreting, translating, and working as a trainer and researcher focusing on the intersection between interpreting, technology and education. As Founder and Geek-In-Chief at techforword, Josh shares tips about technology, translation and interpreting in conferences and workshops, academic articles, the AI in Translation and AI in Interpreting Summits, and at techforword insiders, the premier online community for tech-savvy language professionals.
Speech recognition for interpreters
Full-day workshop
Numbers, dates, names and terminology can be especially challenging for interpreters.
But cutting-edge speech recognition tools can help to decrease the stress around numbers and terminology so you can focus on delivering higher-quality interpreting.
Join us for this hands-on workshop and explore the ins and outs of speech recognition in interpreting.
After this session, you’ll know how to:
● Set up speech recognition for online and onsite meetings
● Pick which speech recognition tool to use
● Use speech recognition in simultaneous and consecutive settings
You’ll also get a sneak peak of the newest speech-recognition-powered approach to interpreting, Sight-Consec.
Session overview
● Part 1: Introduction to speech recognition
● How speech recognition works
● Sight translation vs interpreting
● Part 2: “Generic” speech recognition tools
● Built-in captions in Zoom and other online meeting platforms
● Market overview: Otter, Web Captioner, and other speech recognition tools
● Deep dive: Maestra Web Captioner for speech recognition in 20+ languages
● Pros and cons of working from a running transcript
● Part 3: Audio routing
● Software for audio routing in remote meetings
● Hardware for audio routing in onsite meetings
● Part 4: Speech recognition tools for interpreters
● The 3 major players: CymoNote, InterpretBank, and SmarTerp
● Speech recognition for numbers
● Speech recognition for named entities
● Speech recognition for terminology
● Force replace
● Part 5: Sight-Consec: Combining speech recognition with note-taking
● How to go from sight translation to Sight-Consec
● Bilingual Sight-Consec with CymoNote
● Automated consecutive note-taking with speech recognition
● How to annotate transcripts while interpreting to boost your interpreting
● What to note down – and what to leave out – in Sight-Consec
● Part 6: The future of speech recognition-enabled interpreting
● Recap: Pros and cons of speech recognition
● What does the future hold?
The interactive training will include ample time for hands-on testing of tools and discussion of speech recognition.
Please bring a laptop and a headset or USB microphone + headphones. You can also bring a tablet and stylus if you have one.
All tools that will be covered include a free trial.
Please note:
This proposal is subject to change depending on developments in artificial intelligence.
Nevertheless, the session will provide an overview of the most cutting-edge AI-powered tools for interpreters based on available applications, and will include examples that specifically cater to the interpreting contexts and languages used in Switzerland. Please note that the trainer speaks English, French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese and can also provide examples in German and Arabic.
For registration please send an email to Melanie Klemm at training-ch@aiic.org.