Category: Speech to text
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Sight-Terp – a live-prompting boothmate including interpreter training support
by Viviana Tipiani Yarlequé and Anja Rütten The latest Computer-Aided Interpreting tool that has made its way to the CAI market is Sight-Terp. It has been around since November 2025, which was exactly the time when we had our three-day intensive CAI testing weekend in Cologne. Whilst we could only accomodate a short test cycle…
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Fast but awkward vs. well thought-out but slow – Comparing machine translation to human translation | guest article by Luca Etzold
AI and with it MT has been gaining more and more traction in the language industry. However, human translators have not gone extinct just yet, and there are good reasons for it, some of which I explored as part of my Master’s thesis. In it, I translated a podcast interview from English to German and…
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TerpMate – the (second) newest kid on the block of CAI tools
TerpMate was published in April this year (2025). It was the latest addition to the CAI tool landscape indeed, just until SightTerp was released last month (review coming soon). Now, TerpMate is part of the Greenterp ecosystem created by Green Terp Technologies Pte Ltd and their CEO Bernhard Song, who himself is a professional conference…
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Getting to know Boothie, the University of Gent’s CAI project
The Ergonomics for the Artificial Booth Mate (EABM) project conducted at the University of Ghent has been catching my attention for a while, with all these experiments on cognitive load in the booth run by Bart Defrancq. The CAI tool associated with the project, Boothie, provides live-prompting of terms and numbers in the booth along…