Found in Interpretation Podcast

Ma langue française — entretien avec François LavalléeTraducteur depuis 40 ans, fondateur de Magistrad et ancien vice-président à la qualité chez Edgar, François Lavallée publie Ma langue française, un ouvrage de 600 pages qui mêle souvenirs personnels et érudition. Il y partage d'abord son amour de la langue, avant d'aborder la norme et l'usage, la traduction et les mouvements qui veulent transformer le français.Avec Alain B...

Mercedes Amoretti is back on Found in Interpretation, and this time it's personal: the habits that make a boothmate great, and the ones that drive us up the wall.Alain, Brian and Mercedes talk about how remote interpreting changed booth etiquette after COVID. They cover handovers on Zoom (mic off or "GO"?), why you should never cut off mid-sentence, the timer and gold-watch crowd, and why "you owe me a minute" has no place on a tea...

From the Tower of Babel to the interpreting booth, language professionals have helped people understand each other across centuries.In this episode of Found in Interpretation, Brian Bickford and Alain Breton celebrate International Translation Day with a lively look at translation and interpreting through history. They discuss Saint Jerome, the Silk Road, the Nuremberg trials, and the role of language professionals at the United Na...

Quelle place les interprètes de conférence occupent-ils au sein de l’OTTIAQ? Que représente le titre d’interprète agréé et jusqu’où un ordre professionnel peut-il intervenir dans les enjeux de la profession?Dans cet épisode de Found in Interpretation, Alain Breton et Brian Bickford reçoivent Betty Cohen, présidente de l’Ordre des traducteurs, terminologues et interprètes agréés du Québec, pour une discussion...

What does a human interpreter convey beyond the words themselves—and can AI do the same?In episode 71 of Found in Interpretation, Alain Breton and Brian Bickford welcome Matthew Perret, conference interpreter, interpreter trainer, and comedy writer and performer working at the European Parliament.From literary translation and theatre to multilingual political debates, Matthew explains how his background shaped his approach to...

Kirk Hendrickson, COO and co-founder of Wordly, joins Found in Interpretation to discuss AI-powered simultaneous interpretation across 67 languages. In this honest conversation, Kirk addresses interpreters' biggest concerns: Is AI replacing you? How does Wordly actually work? And why the "pie gets bigger" for everyone. From United Nations events to enterprise meetings, discover how AI and human interpreters can coexist—and wh...

FRENCH EPISODE:

Camille Ogawa, interprète de conférence française installée au Japon depuis 1989, nous parle du marché fascinant et ultra-niche de l'interprétation japonais-français.Dans cet épisode, nous explorons :🎙️ Son parcours à l'ESIT Paris et formation au Japon📊 Le marché de l'interprétation : 95% japonais-anglais, le reste en niches🤝 Conseillère interculturelle : bien plus que simplement interpréter🌍 Missions exceptionn...

Gilda Boffa et Ayoub El Karoubi font partie de la toute première cohorte du DESS en interprétation de conférences de l'UQTR — un programme en ligne, à temps partiel, lancé il y a à peine un an. Dans cet épisode, ils nous racontent leur parcours vers l'interprétation, leurs raisons de choisir ce programme plutôt que les maîtrises d'Ottawa ou de Glendon, et ce que ça représente concrètement de suivre une formation universitaire...

In this episode of Found in Interpretation, we welcome Sharon Neumann Solow — ASL interpreter, trainer, author, and pioneering figure in sign language interpreting with over 60 years of experience.Sharon began interpreting at 15, pulled out of high school to work at a university doctoral program — with no formal training and no roadmap. What followed was a career spent building the profession from the ground up: becomin...

In this special listener-requested episode of Found in Interpretation, Alain and Brian break down the top 10 reasons why event organizers and clients should send documents to their interpreters as early as possible — and why "confidentiality" is not a valid excuse.Topics covered:- How interpreters use agendas and PowerPoints to prepare- Why glossary-building depends on client documents- The particular challenge of scripted sp...

What does a decade as a hospital interpreter in Georgia and New York have to do with sending microphones to speakers in Lima? More than you'd think.In this episode, Alain and Brian sit down with Laura Holcomb — interpreter, trainer, and founder of String and Can — whose winding path through healthcare interpreting, a Glendon master's degree completed from a coffee farm in rural Brazil, and the chaos of early remote plat...

What if your office was an expedition ship in Antarctica, and your colleagues were marine biologists, ornithologists, and geologists? For German conference interpreter Luisa Bach, that's not a fantasy — it's her job.

In this episode, Luisa takes us inside a world that very few interpreters ever experience: working aboard expedition ships in Antarctica and the Arctic, interpreting for scientists and tourists while navigating Dr...

What does the future look like for translators and interpreters in the age of AI? Ben Karl — President-elect of the American Translators Association and ATA-certified French to English translator — joins Alain and Brian to talk about professional associations, certification, the upcoming ATA conference in San Francisco, and what it takes to build a resilient language career today.Whether you're a translator, an interpre...

What does it take to truly master interpretation? In this episode, Laura Burian and Julie Johnson, both professors at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, share the knowledge behind their online courses on consecutive note-taking and mindfulness for interpreters.As the Middlebury Institute faces closure, these two courses will be taken offline on June 30th, 2026. If you've ever wanted to sharpen your note-...

Anna Kerod started her career as a biologist in St. Petersburg. Thirty years later, she's one of the UK's leading legal interpreters — specializing in commercial arbitration and litigation involving multi-billion dollar disputes. In between: 17 years on a massive oil and gas project in Kazakhstan, drilling rigs, minus-42 winters, and more acronyms than you can shake a stick at.In this episode, Alain and Brian talk with Anna a...

What really happened inside the booths at the Nuremberg Trials?

In this episode, we sit down with Elke Limberger-Katsumi, creator and curator of the exhibition "One Trial, Four Languages," to explore the pioneering interpreters who made simultaneous interpretation possible at Nuremberg in 1945 — and why their story still matters today.We discuss how interpreters were recruited and screened, the birth of simultaneous interpreta...

What if the most powerful AI you have access to… is your own brain?In this episode of Found in Interpretation, we sit down for a third time with Joachim Lepine — interpreter trainer, author, and founder of Lion Academy — to talk about his upcoming book YouGPT Before ChatGPT, releasing in late March.Joachim makes a compelling case for something we've all stopped doing: thinking for ourselves before turning to a ma...

In this episode of the Found in Interpretation podcast, hosts Alain Breton and Brian Bickford engage with Mohammed Moussa, a pioneer in interpretation technology. They discuss his journey from an entrepreneur to the founder of Global Audio Visual and the innovations he has introduced, including the WebSwitcher platform and modular soundproof booths. The conversation explores the challenges and adaptations in remote and hybrid inter...