Benefits Of Simultaneous Translation Equipment

Posted by The Popular News Today on Wednesday, October 31, 2012

By Marcy Becker


There are a variety of different languages that are spoken in the world; Chinese being the most used language. This is due to the large population of the Chinese people. Although English is also quite used by most countries in Europe and America there are places where it is not spoken. Conferences are normally organized with invitees from different countries. The people who attend such conferences speak different languages hence there is a need to have translation equipment so that communication can be done appropriately.

There are mainly two kinds of translation apparatus that are used frequently. They comprise of the infrared and the Radio frequency kind. The infrared type is quite useful especially in meetings where the transmission range is low since the wavelength is shorter than the radio waves. The disadvantages of this kind are that it requires expertise during installation and that it can only transmit over a limited range.

The Radio frequency kind is used especially in very large conferences where the range of transmission is quite large. It is also quite easy to install. Any individual with basic sound knowledge can easily install it without undergoing any difficulties. The equipment also has several frequencies that can be used.

Language barrier is the greatest barrier that people attending a conference may experience. Having the above apparatus ensures that this is eliminated. Each individual is normally given a headset as they walk into the place where the meeting is held. This apparatus thus enables a person to select the language they understand best and thus be at par with the one giving the speech.

The above equipment ensures that interpretation takes place immediately. As the individual making a speech talks, whatever they are talking is immediately interpreted to various languages. All people attending the meeting are thus at one level in terms of communicating.

A lot of time is wasted in situations where a person needs to pause in order for interpretation to take place. Such time can be saved greatly by use of the above apparatus. This is due to the fact that translation occurs simultaneously as the person talks therefore a person does not need to stop talking to give time to the interpreter to translate.

Communication is only considered to be communication if there is feedback. Feedback is possible if the person providing the feedback has clearly understood the idea the other individual was trying to put across. Since there is no language barrier feedback can be easily provided by the attendees. In addition the attendee can provide their feedback using their own language which will be translate into the different languages.

The first step towards communicating well is the ability to overcome the language barrier. This has been made possible by use of the simultaneous translation equipment. Feedback can also be easily provided during the conference since people understand each other quite well. The goal of having such conferences is to have different people interact and exchange ideas. This goal is thus met when communication is made possible.




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