Frequently Asked Questions

When booking an interpreter, you will need to provide us with the following information:

The nature of the assignment, whether it is Simultaneous Interpreting, Consecutive Interpreting, Telephone Interpreting, or Sign Language Interpreting. (If you are unsure of which service best suits your needs, we can help you to decide if you let us know the setting of the event, ie. a doctor’s appointment or a small business meeting with some non-English speakers)

The number of interpreters required.

Date, time and location where the interpreter(s) need to attend.

Contact details of the client.

Any specific requirements regarding the interpreter, eg. male or female, country of origin where the interpreter is from, any dialect involved, etc.

How we charge varies depending on the service required:

For simultaneous interpreting roles such as conference interpreting, there are a various array of considerations, not least of which is the setting and the preparation required. We usually charge a daily rate, depending on the availability of the interpreter, and any special skill sets, languages or domain specific requirements or if equipment such as headsets or audio booths and technicians need to be provided.

For consecutive interpreting roles, we charge on a per-hour basis. Also, based on the language and the location of the assignment, some travelling cost may apply. Please feel free contact our office for more details and to obtain a personalised quotation for your needs. Contract clients can avail of a 24 hours, 7 days a week, all year round, direct point of contact for emergency or ad-hoc arrangements. It is always best to give plenty of advance notice fro bookings to secure and schedule the best available interpreter for your needs.

Translation.ie. is proud to be able to provide interpreters for urgent same-day requests for the most commonly spoken languages throughout Ireland. However, as demand can naturally fluctuate, we suggest that for non-urgent assignments, get in touch to book your interpreter in as far as advance as possible, this is especially true for conference interpreting due to the preparations required and to schedule resources, because several types of events can occur at the same time, are seasonal and usually planned well in advance which is the norm. For less difficult settings and non urgent appointments requiring consecutive interpreting skills, for frequently encountered languages we have a team of 8 interpreting scheduling managers to manage appointments so at least 1-2 days prior notice is very prudent so we can shuffle things around, the more notice the better. For contract clients we operate a 24/7/365 ad-hoc service. Private clients will need to ensure they have allowed sufficient time to ensure we can set up your accounts before we can assign interpreters.

Our state of the art interpreter booking system sends audit and confirmation emails at each step of the process for all your appointments so you can be sure that things are running smoothly.

Consecutive Interpreting requires the speaker to stop after a few sentences and let the interpreter interpret the speaker’s statement. In Simultaneous Interpreting, the interpreter, who normally uses interpreting equipment and usually working in pairs in a soundproof booth, listens to the speaker’s speech in one language and simultaneously converts it into another language, interpreting language and cultural references into the target language on the fly, without waiting for the speaker to finish his or her statement. Simultaneous Interpreting is an extremely highly skilled area that requires immense personal ability, specialist training, education as well as superb linguistic talent, this type of interpreting is used for high-level conferences, while Consecutive Interpreting is used mostly for client meetings and depositions.

A lot! Translation.ie provides interpreting services for more than 220 languages and dialects spoken in Ireland. Chances are that we can accommodate your language needs, just get in touch and we’ll be glad to help.

At present, we are proud to have more than 4000 interpreters from almost every language and cultural background on our team, they are located throughout the country in different areas so it is always prudent to schedule because as demands varies enormously depending on seasonal factors and skills available in different specialities and localities.

Translation is the changing of a text from a source language to a target language which is immeasurably valuable for the purpose of effective communication. Localisation is the process of taking that the message being conveyed within the piece of text and ensuring that it is effectively translated into the vernacular so that culturally relevant phrasings and markers are taken into consideration to tailor the translated piece specifically to the target local market. This process is done by professional translators who are also native speakers of the target language, often a specialist in a given field with a working knowledge of the topic and allowed a wider region to adapt the given text, thus guaranteeing that the finished translation conveys the right information in a manner suited to the language and the culture of the country concerned.

Localisation can also be a process of ensuring that the information you give your customers is correct for the country that it is being targeted to, ensuring things like the correct country address is shown as well as avoiding a cultural errors by replacing images or icons and avoiding using phrases that don’t translate well or mean the same in one culture or another. From an English speakers perspective one can also look at localisation from the point of view of being similar to changing the style of language to suit a US or GB market, adapting the style of writing, avoiding colloquialisms and making sure the correct logos and telephone numbers are used in the correct places.

If you need your content to look and feel exactly as the original, the best option for you may be our Desktop Publishing service. We can handle a very wide variety of source files used in publication and websites as well as software code. We are fully equipped to provide multilingual desktop publishing, formatting and typesetting in numerous formats to best suit your needs. Whether it is for a product label, a website or personal use, our skilled team will make your translation look exactly like the original. Get in touch for more info and a tailored quotation.

Yes! The comprehensive range of text services at Translation.ie includes not only the expertise of professional translators but also a high quality Desktop Publishing (DTP) Service; which involves replacing a text in one language with the accurate translation in another language in such a manner that the page layout for your publications is preserved. We have the capability to work within all major desktop publishing software, including Adobe PageMaker, InDesign, Photoshop, Quark Xpress etc. We can deal with many types of content from user manuals to consumer leaflets and many more.

The simple answer is Yes! At translation.ie, we are so proud of our skilled pool of linguists, our professional and proactive Project Managers, and our solution is a driven management approach. The breadth of knowledge and vast experience of our team in numerous areas of expertise enables us to provide a comprehensive solution tailored to you, our client’s needs. For more detailed info, please get in touch to see how we can tailor a solution for your business today.

If you don’t have a very clear strategy for tacking all the problems and managing the processes we will be more than happy to talk to you to help you plan whats best and let you to decide what we can do for you that best suits your needs, contact us or email solutions@translation.ie.