Simultaneous Interpreting: Race Between Human Brain and Artificial Intelligence
(Room JW Grand Ballroom 8)
07 Jul 18
9:00 PM
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10:15 PM
Simultaneous interpretation, where the interpreter orally translates a speech into another language in real time, has been considered an impossible job by outsiders. This presentation will first demystify the work of simultaneous interpreters and then offer a close look at the race between human interpreters and artificial intelligence in dominating the future of real-time language conversion. The presentation will attempt to answer several questions: What Is Conference Interpreting? How has technology impacted interpreting? What is the current state of speech recognition and machine translation technologies? Will human interpreters be replaced?