Multilingual Recording

Posted by VoiceBoxer Team
On 10 March 2016

At VoiceBoxer, we work to improve our platform every day. A lot of the stuff we do on a day-to-day basis is done “under the hood,” but this week, we have two exciting features about which we want to speak to the world. Multilingual Recordings: VoiceBoxer is proud to introduce a novel recording and playback […]

What about English in China?

Posted by VoiceBoxer Team
On 25 February 2016

China makes up 18,7% of the world’s population with 1.37 billion people. In 2014, Forbes reported that five of the ten largest public companies in the world are Chinese, and in the same year Fortune’s Global 500 list included 95 Chinese corporations. One would be hard-pressed to argue that China is a market to ignore. In […]

The Grandfather of Remote Interpretation – The Telephone

Posted by VoiceBoxer Team
On 18 February 2016

This is a phone released by Cyracom in 1995. But wait–why does it have two receivers? We’ll get to that later. Let’s talk about remote interpretation first. Over the past decades, the cost of communication, especially long-distance communication, has decreased rapidly. With it, the amount of communication across borders, cultures, and languages has increased. Technological […]

Virtual Trainings and Multilingualism in the World’s Largest Humanitarian Organization

Posted by VoiceBoxer Team
On 11 February 2016

Margarita Griffith is the Senior Learning Officer at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. We had the opportunity to have a chat with her to talk about the role of webinars, language barriers, and VoiceBoxer in her work. The IFRC is the world’s largest humanitarian organization, with the vision to inspire, […]

Mariana Hernandez: English, Good Interpretation, and Pyjamas.

Posted by VoiceBoxer Team
On 28 January 2016

We’ve been working with Mariana Hernandez a lot, and when she told us that she and her husband were visiting Denmark, we could not resist inviting her for a chat and a coffee at our offices in Copenhagen. Mariana is an experienced interpreter with more than 15 years of experience, interpreting to and from English, […]

ISS View on Africa Wrap-Up

Posted by VoiceBoxer Team
On 25 January 2016

Speakers: Liesl Louw-Vaudran Yann Bedzigui The topics on this week’s “View on Africa” Webinar on the 20th of January 2016 were the election of the new members of Africa’s Peace and Security Council and the vote on the deployment of 5000 African Union troops to Burundi. —————- PSC and AU Commission Elections: There are two […]

Interpreter VS Bilingual

Posted by VoiceBoxer Team
On 19 January 2016

Everybody understands English nowadays, right? No. Not nearly as well as you might think. In fact, only 7% of non-native English employees say they can communicate well at work [1]. You know that you can deal with that issue in written formats by having documents translated. Yet how can you make sure your audience fully […]

What To Do if You’re Being Interpreted, Part II: Style

Posted by VoiceBoxer Team
On 8 December 2015

Speaking to an audience is tough enough without having to focus on anything else. As an expert in any field, you want to concentrate on your subject matter (and on suppressing any fear of public speaking you may harbor!). It’s challenge enough to give any sort of presentation without having to worry about your interpreters’ […]

What To Do if You’re Being Interpreted, Part I: Sound Quality

Posted by VoiceBoxer Team
On 4 December 2015

In a previous post, we talked about interpreter connection, and what interpreters can do with their hardware and connectivity to make the most of their virtual booth. In this post, we discuss what speakers can do to be sure interpreters get the best quality audio in order to do their jobs to the best of […]

Interpreters: Getting the Best Experience from Your Virtual Booth

Posted by VoiceBoxer Team
On 26 November 2015

At VoiceBoxer, we strive to give interpreters an intuitive and reliable platform, complete with an easy-to-use interpreter interface to make remote interpretation as convenient as possible. We also get a lot of questions from interpreters on what they can do to get the best experience from their virtual booths. There are many things speakers can […]

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