Category: AI
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Recap of VKD’s round table discussion on artificial intelligence
As promised, here comes the English version of my article published in the German conference interpreters’ association (VKD im BDÜ e.V.) bulletin “VKD-Kurier“ in December 2023 Quo Vadis yet again? On 17 October 2023, VKD hosted a virtual round table discussion on AI. I was invited to give a keynote speech – a dubious honour…
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Meet Truedee, my ChatGPT based preparation assistant
So ChatGPT now lets you create your own custom ChatGPT using OpenAI’s no-code platform GPT builder … about time, I thought, to give it a try and create my own chatty conference preparation assistant, TrueDee. It/she/he is available at this link, so feel free to get acquainted. We are not exactly soulmates yet, as TrueDee…
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Nachlese zum Runden Tisch des VKD im BDÜ zum Thema Künstliche Intelligenz
Artikel aus dem VKD-Kurier Dezember 2023 [English version here] Quo vadis denn jetzt schon wieder? Am 17. Oktober 2023 lud der VKD zum virtuellen Runden Tisch in Sachen KI ein. Mir wurde die Ehre zuteil, ein Impulsreferat halten zu dürfen – für meine Begriffe eine zweifelhafte Ehre, weil in meinem Kopf über allen Fragen rund…
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Live transcription in RSI with Otter.ai and Airgram.io
Yesterday, in a Remote Simultaneous Interpreting team with colleagues being distributed all over Europe, it suddenly occurred to us to play around a bit with live transcription as a support (thanks to Mike Morandin’s innocent question if anyone had ever used it). No sooner said than done – within a few minutes our wonderful chef…
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The InterpretBank Artificial Boothmate in action | guest article by Benjamin Gross
As interpreters, we’re used to being team players. We don’t like to work alone – whether that be in a booth on-site or remotely from our home offices. Whatever we do, we can trust our favourite people – our booth mates. So what if we could have an additional mate in our booth? A mate…
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How to tell a chatbot like ChatGPT or Sage to align texts in different languages in a table (and besides get a summary )
If you have the same text in several languages and you want the different versions neatly arranged in a table with the sentences in the different language versions next to each other, a chatbot like ChatGPT may be able to help. Especially when texts come in pdf format, just copying and pasting them can already…
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How to tell ChatGPT to extract terminology from parallel texts in different languages
My dear colleague (and former student) Florian Pfaffelhuber just drew my attention to the fact that ChatGPT is great at multilingual terminology extraction. It can also handle more than two languages and will create very nice multilingual glossary tables for you. What worked best when we tested it today was to copy the prompt and…
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Use ChatGPT, DeepL & Co. to boost your conference preparation
In this article I would like to show you how I like to use DeepL, Google Translate, Microsoft Translator, and ChatGPT as a conference interpreter, especially in conference preparation. You will also see how to use GT4T to combine the different options. I did some testing for this year’s Innovation in Interpreting Summit and I…