Tag: AI
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AI-made podcasts by NotebookLM and Jellypod
AI generated podcasts – are they any good for meeting preparation, or for conference interpreter training? My student Rebecca Bremer, a real podcast aficionado, wanted to find out and did some testing. Here’s what she has found out: Guest article by Rebecca Bremer, student of conference interpreting at TH Köln General considerations Podcasts have become…
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Interpreting Europe – navigating the AI landscape without leaving anyone to their own devices
One minute summary Say “I don’t know” and “it depends” with confidence (Get to) know possible use cases of Automatic Speech Translation (make students) understand AI Let’s do meaningful empirical research Barely a month and a half into the new year, a lot has already been said about AI in conference interpreting, after last week’s…
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Chatting about AI with Olivier Péan, OECD chief interpreter | AIIC AI podcast
At the AI workstream of AIIC’s Science Hub, we had the pleasure recently to chat with Olivier Péan, chief interpreter at the OECD, about all things AI in conference interpreting. I hope you enjoy the chat as much as I did! Looking forward to reading your comments on the AI Workstream’s LinkedIn channel!
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Getting to know 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 tools associated with the project provide live-prompting of terms and numbers in the booth along with…
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Testing Cymo Note
Testing software in a group of tech-crazy interpreters is so much more entertaining and insightful than just playing around on my own. AIIC’s AI workstream (link to LinkedIn profile) recently embarked on its first team testing session, and we chose Cymo Note as our first subject of interest. Cymo offers a whole range of support…
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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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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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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…