Reflections on technology and interpreter training

Abstract

Like any other professional activity, interpreting has been reshaped by technology. Around a decade ago, I described this broader transformation as the technological turn in interpreting: a shift affecting the entire ecosystem through the incorporation of digital technologies, most notably, though not exclusively, remote interpreting, computer-assisted interpreting, and machine interpreting. What was once peripheral has become central. For better or worse, this is now plain to see.