To provide an audience made up of individuals who speak different languages with a facility to understanding the content of what is being spoken, Simultaneous Interpreting (or SI) is used. The information is captured by the professional interpreter; interpreted, as spoken from the speaker’s source-language. The interpreter then accurately conveys the translated message usually into a microphone which is, in turn, delivered to the audience via their headsets. This whole process happens simultaneously, hence the term “Simultaneous Interpreting”.

The Practical Application

Simultaneous Interpreting allows efficient and accurate communication of a target language to the relevant target audience as it is spoken.

Seminars, conferences and other such events can call for the placement of an individual, or individuals, to provide such a service. Invariably, these individuals will need both an excellent command of their respective languages as well as an erudite knowledge of the terms, phraseology and industry specific parlances that are often used during the event.

The Advantage

To express and exchange your ideas to existing and potential commercial partners is one major advantage in holding a seminar, or related event. This being the case, to have the facility and resource to enable your ideas to be expressed clearly and succinctly gives you optimum opportunity to engage with your audience by accommodating to their individual language needs. Where you are presented with a multinational audience at such an event, the benefits that a simultaneous interpreter can provide are immediately apparent.

Simultaneous Interpreting brings many benefits to both public and private sector industries. For example; a business wants to distribute a generic product. This product could be utilised by anyone, but currently it only has promotional and instructional materials written in a certain language; let’s say English. Regardless of how useful this item may be, unless its potential benefits are expressed to other audiences in a way that they can understand, no-one will realise what a great product it is.

What We Can Provide

We, as Language Service Providers, can offer organisations the ability to speak to their customers and clients clearly and effectively, regardless of what language they speak; to provide a communication aid where the obstacle of a language barrier is rendered unobtrusive, as much as is possible.

We can supply our customers with the right individuals for the assignment. This will provide invaluable access to a facility to convey your message to your audience in a manner that is both professional and integrated. Our complete, end-to-end language service includes the organisation of travel arrangements for our linguists as well as to provide the required audio equipment on site.

One of our most popular services is providing langauage services for the legal sector. So much so that we have  dedicated sections of our new website highlighting our legal translation services and legal interpreting services. We work with Police, solicitors, courts, general disputes, fraud investigation, insurance companies and all other parts of the legal sector to provide high quality legal translation services.

We also offer Legal Translation for websites as well as interpreting from any language to another, ranging from Polish to British Sign Language (BSL) for the legal sector.

Berkshire-based language services provider Prestige Network Ltd has made history by providing two British Sign Language/English interpreters (BSL) for a series of UK Youth Parliament debates in the House of Commons.

The ground-breaking move comes as the UK Youth Parliament also makes history – it is the only time in 300 years that anyone other than MPs has been allowed to speak from there.

Prestige Network’s provision of two British Sign Language interpreters has helped oil the wheels of democracy for the 11 to 18-year-old elected Members of Youth Parliament taking up the seats in the Houses of Parliament normally occupied by MPs

Find out more about Prestige Network’s British Sign Language/English interpreters.

There is an increasing tendency for public sector organisations to go out to tender for language services – particularly the larger ones – which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. However, it’s the procurement processes’ apparent reliance entirely on cost which is causing the most grief within the language services industry.

Poor quality, unreliable services could ultimately cost the Public sector more as a result of having to reschedule appointments with more likelihood of costly mistakes. When the services include Medical interpreting or Police interpreting the quality and reliability of service should be a major consideration.

• achieved phenomenal financial growth in the last financial year (2008/2009) – its turnover grew by 65%.

• received an award for its Business Management Team in the RBS Management Team Award 2009, part of the Thames Valley Business Magazine Awards.

• was nominated for the West Berkshire Enterprise Award 2009 under the category ‘Job Creation’.

• was recognised in the highly sought-after Coutts Prize for Family Business earlier this year (2009) for the contribution its family business makes to the economy and society.

• made history in October 2009 by providing two British Sign Language/English interpreters (BSL) for a series of UK Youth Parliament debates in the House of Commons, the first time that BSL/English interpreters had ever been used there.

• became one of the first language services companies in UK to be awarded the new ISO standard certificate – the nationally recognised accreditation ISO 9001:2008 for its comprehensive Quality Control Management System.

• expanded into the office next door in Thatcham Business Village, to accommodate more staff. It doubled the square footage of office space to cope with current growth and ensure capacity for future growth.

Read the full details on our Translation Services News Section.

Shawn Khorassani, Business Development and Strategy Director of family business language services company Prestige Network, shares his thoughts on succeeding during the recession in the latest Language and Translation Services Article on the Prestige Network’s channel on youtube.

“Earlier this year, we celebrated financial success with the announcement that our turnover had soared 65% in the previous 12 months to a phenomenal £3 million. This spurred us on to think hard about the reasons for our success.”

The new standard is more comprehensive than the old ISO 9001 which it replaces – it now monitors how effective quality controls are, rather than just that they are in place.

One of the key findings from the ISO 9001:2008 audit of Prestige Network shows that customer satisfaction (monitored via surveys) is now at 92%.

Shawn Khorassani, Business Development Director at Prestige Network, said: “We are thrilled to be amongst the first to be awarded this new standard certification. From a management point of view, this ISO certification is a lot more useful than the old one – it shows us that our quality controls are effective.”

*Update* A  summary of the customer survey results is now available on our main site.

Maria Wallin - General Manager, Prestige Network

Prestige Network has appointed Maria Wallin as General Manager.

 Maria, who speaks four languages (Swedish, English, German and Spanish), joined language services company Prestige Network in 2007 as PA to CEO Shohreh Fleming, working her way up to Administration/HR Manager before being appointed General Manager from 1 June (2009).

She said: “I was looking for a career change and seeking an industry where I could be exposed to a multi-cultural working environment and that’s way I was attracted to work for Prestige Network. I enjoy challenges and stepping outside of my comfort zone – I thrive on that – that’s what’s different about me. I adapt very quickly to new countries and new environments.

Maria, 35, was born in Seoul, Korea and has lived in six countries. She started her international ‘jet-setting’ life at the tender age of three months when she moved to Sweden to be with her adoptive parents. During her years growing up, she also lived in Saudi Arabia and Spain (Marbella) – her father’s job as a civil engineer took the family around the world. At age 19, Maria left home to move to Switzerland to do a BA in Business Management.

Her career started in Jersey, where she worked her way up from receptionist to General Manager in a variety of hotels, but the travelling bug caught up with her and she left to take a year out on a world tour, travelling around all of the continents.

Last year, Maria led Prestige Network’s management team to be awarded an Internationally recognised ISO 9001 certification by BM Trada, an accredited certification body, for its comprehensive Quality Management System which incorporates all aspects of its operation.

She said: “When Prestige Network was awarded ISO 9001 certificate, this was my biggest achievement here. The ISO 9001 confirms that every single procedure of Prestige Network’s operations, from linguist recruitment to appropriate invoicing, is quality checked – thus ensuring a professional service to all of our customers and suppliers. We are one of the few companies in the industry to achieve this.”

Salome came to the UK in 2003 to do an MA and Media and Communications. She joined Prestige Network in 2006 and has worked in the operations and sales teams. She speaks French, Italian, Hindi, Marathi and English, is originally from Poona in India.

Salome will be working with solicitors providing business law and assistance in child-custody court proceeding. She said: “I am delighted to be given the opportunity to work with solicitors throughout the south. Our work with personal injury solicitors in particular is a growing market, especially with more and more disputes.”

Prestige Network is one of the best and one of the most professional interpreting services provider available.  Prestige Network is one of the UK’s leading in translation and interpreting services.

Route To

Translation is your route to success.  Prestige Network works with you, choosing the right words, native phrases and symbolism correctly with attention to detail.

Legal Translation

One of the most important interpreting service offered by Prestige Network is legal translation services. If a legal document is translated incorrectly, there could be dire consequences for all involved. If you need any language translated then we can help you.

The types of Legal Translation Services offered by Prestige Network is court transcripts, legal contracts, employment contracts and title deeds. Prestige Network will always have a specialist to suit your area of business and they will be able to assist you.

Audio & Video Transcription

Prestige Network also offer Medical translation services. People like Cardiologists, anaesthesiologists, dentists, doctors, surgeons, chiropractors and many other professionals may require documents for a patient transfer to be translated.

Foreign Languages On The Internet and Websites

At Prestige Network, we appreciate that over one hundred million people who use the Internet do not speak English as a first language. The most intelligent thing you can do is have multiple instances of the same website, translated into the different languages in the international pool.

Website ‘Interpreting’ Services

When it comes to marketing and creative translation, everyone at Prestige Network understands there is no way words, metaphors or symbolism are going to be translated directly. Say you own a website that is marketing products to an international client base. Your site is ranked number one on every search engine in the world, and the orders are still not coming through. This is why we have a developed ‘website interpreting services’  team dedicated to translating every word on your site fluently and correctly.

You now don’t need to spend anymore time trying to translate your site, All you need to do is send us the raw source, and we will return the translated media professionally and quickly. And yes, the correct term is ‘website translation services’!

Various Formats

Prestige Network can use almost any format – CD, DVD, VHS, tape, Mp3, WAV and many more.  We can provide the most highly skilled, professionally adept and courteous medical translators that are always accurate.

Ensuring Your Translation Is Accurate

Whether you need a technical instruction manual, medical document or building plans, Prestige Network has a specialist in your trade that understands the nuances and industrial terminology needed to ensure your translation is completely correct.  Prestige Network offer an inexpensive and enjoyable business experience.

The Translation Process and Technical Translation Services

Whether you need healthcare, engineering, architectural, or any other specialized or technical translation and interpreting services, your results need to be perfect, first time, every time.  This is followed by the translation process ensuring a clear and understandable paraphrasing.

The Best and Most Efficiant Language Company

With our expertise in multilingual translation, telephone and face to face interpreting, and niche market experience, you will find us the best and most efficient language translation company around.  So whether you are a paralegal or a Judge you will find the interpreting services offered by us, an invaluable business tool.

Interpreting services are provided all across the UK and overseas.

Example Of Failed Translation

An example of failed marketing copy that meant no harm was Kentucky Fried Chicken’s campaign that launched the fast food chain in China.  “Eat your fingers off” did not seem like a good slogan or payoff line. With us, there is no chance this will ever happen. If we think there is the slightest chance your copy will not work, we will tell you, and together we can come up with a solution.

Privacy

Remember too that our service is guaranteed along with the privacy of your information.  We know you work for your brands, choosing your customers, products and strategies correctly and with exactitude. All documents, tapes, videos and anything else will be treated under our customer privacy agreement; we pride ourselves in being trustworthy – one of our pillars of success.

Confidentiality Procedures

As with the doctor-patient privacy agreement, we enter into a doctor-translator-patient agreement wherein all information translated, and indeed disclosed in the process, is kept under our strict privacy and confidentiality procedures.

Prestige Networks Interpreting Service

An Example of why you would need interpreting services is for certain things such as Prestige Network understands that medicine is a highly specialised field of industry with many unique terms that cannot be translated literally. Prestige Network’s interpreting services are what you need.

Services You Can Rely On

Prestige Network interpreting services are services you can rely on. This is why we try to include you in our dedicated translation process, in order to understand your brand and better further your marketing strategies.

Call 01635 292 789 or email salesuk@prestigenetwork.com