Technology and Interpreting

Abstract Interpreting can be supported by technology in different ways, along a spectrum that includes making the provision of interpreting services possible, augmenting the interpreter by facilitating information processing, and facilitating training. In the first case, technology carries the interpreter's voice or image, and can even allow for the interpreter and the speakers to not share the same physical space. In the second case, it can support the interpreter in preparing, managing, and retrieving terminology or other problematic items. In the latter case, it can support education and self‐training with multimedia materials, but also remote (synchronous and asynchronous) education. This entry presents an overview of the different ways technology can support interpreting and what this entails. Apart from discussing the above three major categories of technologies, it also includes a section on machine interpreting, an emerging trend in which human interpreting is fully replaced by technology, and a section on human–computer interaction to shed some light on how technologies in interpreting impact the interpreter.