The Use of Portable Interpreting Devices: An Overview
Abstract
The use of portable sound equipment has grown rapidly in the conference interpretation market in the last few years, which has sometimes meant that it has been utilised in working environments ill-suited for interpreters to achieve the best performance possible.Keywords
portable sound equipment, portable interpreting equipment (PIE), bidule, conference interpretation, whispered interpreting, consecutive interpreting, simultaneous interpretingReferences
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