AI-Powered Interpreting
Full-day workshop
Will AI be the end of interpreting, or another tool to help us work better?
Join us for this hands-on workshop and explore the ins and outs of artificial intelligence in interpreting.
After this session, you’ll know how to:
- Quickly prepare a glossary using artificial intelligence
- Upgrade your vocabulary and research terms using AI
- Research your assignment using AI-powered chatbots
- Use AI to automatically extract terminology from monolingual and parallel documents in various formats (text, PDFs, aligned parallel texts, images, audio and video)
- Assess confidentiality risks and decide which AI tool to use, when
We’ll also discuss the pros and cons of AI for interpreting, and what “machine interpreting” means for the future of our profession.
Session overview
- Part 1: AI-Powered glossary preparation from documents: Readwise Reader
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- Highlight and annotate from your browser
- Use AI for definitions, translation, summaries, and simplification
- Generate term lists, bullet points, and key ideas from documents using AI
- Export term lists and annotations to your glossaries
- Part 2: Power up your vocab with AI
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- How to talk to AI: An introduction to prompt engineering
- AI-powered definitions, synonyms and collocations
- Use AI to understand regional usage and for reverse lookup
- How to create multilingual glossaries with AI (and your human expertise)
- When a glossary isn’t just a glossary: Definitions, examples, and more
- Export glossaries into your terminology management tool
- ChatGPT as multilingual writing assistant
- ChatGPT for speechwriting
- Part 3: Enhanced research with Google Gemini and Copilot
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- Get an overview of a subject using AI
- AI-powered search and sources
- Research from an image
- Research from videos
- Summarization, outlining and sentiment analysis
- Hybrid search (with traditional search engines alongside Copilot)
- The “human in the cockpit”: An essential part of AI-powered preparation
- Part 4: AI-powered terminology extraction
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- Extract terms from texts
- Extract terms from websites
- Extract terms from documents and PDFs
- Extract terms from aligned bilingual documents
- Extract terms from unaligned documents
- Extract terms from audio and video files
- Part 5: AI and confidentiality
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- Key principles of data protection and confidentiality
- Opting in vs. opting out
- Confidentiality in ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, DeepL and Turboscribe
- Using AI via an API
- Sentence-level vs. document-level transmission
- How to talk to clients about AI
The interactive workshop will include ample time for hands-on testing of AI tools. Please bring a laptop!
All tools that will be covered include a free trial.
Date: Saturday, February 15, 2025 from 09:00 to 12:30 and from 14:00 to 17:30
Location: Novotel, Geneva (Rue de Zurich 19, 1201 Genève – parking is free for training participants)
Trainer: Josh Goldsmith
Training: AI Powered Interpreting
Participants: 20 (twenty is the maximum number of participants)
Catering: Morning and afternoon coffee breaks are provided as part of the training activity.
Lunch is not included
Registration
Registration fee Registration period
Members of AIIC-CH CHF 100.00 13.12.2024 – 07.02.2025 (noon)
Members of AIIC (world) CHF 100.00 02.01.2025 – 07.02.2025 (noon)
Non-members CHF 200.00 02.01.2025 – 07.02.2025 (noon)
Please note that:
• Until December 31, 2024 registration will be open exclusively for members of AIIC – Switzerland.
• Registration ends on 07.02.2025 (at noon) or earlier if maximum number of participants is reached.
• A waiting list will be created if the maximum number of participants is reached.
For registration please send an email to Melanie Klemm, Training Officer, at training-ch@aiic.org . Please write “AI POWERED INTERPRETING” in the subject line. She, will reply with the payment instructions.