Artificial Intelligence and the Interpreter

PART 1
2020: A SPEECH ODYSSEY. AUTOMATED SPEECH TRANSLATION: CHALLENGES, APPROACHES, SCALE, USES AND EDGE CASES

• Dr Jan Niehues, Assistant Professor, Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering, University of Maastricht, Netherlands | recording

• Dr William Lewis, Affiliate Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Washington, US; until recently Principal PM Architect at Microsoft Translator | recording

PART 2: IT'S A KIND OF MAGIC? ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND HUMAN INSIGHT

• Dr Marek Kohn, science writer, UK | recording

• Prof. Agnieszka Wykowska, Principal Investigator and Team Leader, Social Cognition in Human-Robot Interaction lab, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy | recording

• Victor Riparbelli, CEO and co-founder of Synthesia, UK | recording

PART 3: WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS. AI FOR INTERPRETER SUPPORT AND TRAINING

• Dr Ildikó Horváth, President of the European Masters in Conference Interpreting consortium, Department of Translation and Interpreting, ELTE University, Hungary | recording

• Marc van Dommelen, Head of Sector Documentation and Terminology, Directorate-General for Interpretation (DG SCIC), European Commission | recording

PART 4: HOW SOON IS NOW? AUTOMATED SPEECH TRANSLATION SOLUTIONS AND DEVICES - DEMOS AND DISCUSSION

• Peter Hayes, CEO of TranslateLive, US ("ILA, the Instant Language Assistant") | recording

• Sergio Del Río, Co-Founder and VP of Product at Waverly Labs, US ("Ambassador") | recording

PART 5: UNDER PRESSURE. AI AND INTERPRETING IN THE FUTURE: DISRUPTION, PERCEPTION AND REALITY
recording

• Thomas Jayes, Head of Strategy and Innovation Unit, Advisor to the Director General, Directorate-General for Logistics and Interpretation for Conferences (DG LINC), European Parliament

• Antonio Paoletti, Head of the Meeting Services and Interpretation Section, Conference Division at the International Maritime Organisation (United Nations), UK

• Naomi Bowman, CEO of DS-Interpretation, Inc., Belgium / US

• Dr Jan Niehues, Assistant Professor, Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering, University of Maastricht, Netherlands

• Dr William Lewis, Affiliate Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Washington, US