Interpreting Services
Building the bridge of communication
With over 35 years' experience, Chamber Translation Services is a professional language division run by the Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce and accredited by the British Chambers of Commerce.
Our team of translators are highly experienced in a vast array of business sectors and will help you to break through the language barrier. We can assist you with any interpreting request. We specialise in the translation of business documentation to include legal interpreting, technical interpreting and commercial interpreting, ensuring that you are communicating effectively in the international market.
Whether you need consecutive interpretation or a phone interpreter for a business meeting, a team for a business conference or ad hoc interpreting services or need to fulfil the urgent demands of your clients and partners. We’ll have the right solution for you.
Interpreting Services
Conference Interpreting
Our conference interpreters can work in over 120 languages, meaning we can provide you with the perfect interpretation team for your conference, available face-to-face or over video and telephone for events around the country.
We have extensive experience interpreting for many events, including sales presentations and other corporate conferences with an international scale. We also have a great track record with providing consecutive interpretation for smaller events and meetings.
The size of your event and the number of foreign language speakers present determines the scale of our simultaneous interpretation operation.
Consecutive Interpreting
Consecutive interpreting is a time-consuming process than other types of translation, but it allows for a greater degree of accuracy. Rather than talking along with a speaker as in simultaneous interpretation, a consecutive interpreter will listen intently while a speaker is talking, and relay their translations to an audience during gaps between sentences. A consecutive interpreter can often take notes whilst the speaker is talking in order to provide as precise a translation as possible, but beyond any writing implements, no additional technology or equipment is needed.
This form of interpreting is most commonly used for more intimate meetings, as well as interviews and other events where the majority of the audience speaks the same language, albeit one which is different from that of the speaker.
Simultaneous Interpreting
In simultaneous interpretation, the interpreter renders the message in the target-language as quickly as he or she can formulate it from the source language, while the source-language speaker continuously speaks. Simultaneous interpreting is suitable for in person interpreting, remote interpreting, on demand phone interpreting, multi-lingual conferences, European works council, international arbitrations, diplomatic proceedings.
Simultaneous interpreting requires incredibly high skill levels and preparation on the part of the interpreters. And finally it requires excellent project management to bring all the elements together. We bring together the right skills and technology to meet and exceed your expectations.
On Demand Telephone / In-house Interpreting
With the coronavirus pandemic rapidly changing how companies operate across the globe, many businesses have taken to email, social media and messaging apps to communicate clearly with customers and counterparts.
When language becomes a barrier that prevents you from communicating and doing business, and face-to-face interpreting is clearly an impossible solution at the moment, look no further...
Chamber Translation Services will provide you with an “ON DEMAND TELEPHONE INTERPRETING” in any language, with a minimum cost of £2.00 +VAT per minute, accessible 24/7.
Each company will be given a unique access code, to be used solely by their staff, and a guideline on how to use the service. This type of interpreting is ad-hoc, i.e. the interpreter does not have to prepare beforehand or look for specific technical terminologies.
If interested please email translations@birmingham-chamber.com and a member of staff will contact you.
To set up online meetings with your overseas customers and counterparts, whether via telephone conferencing, skype or any other available links.
Please send us a request with the language required, brief on subject matter, date and time and we will allocate for you a professional highly experienced interpreter to assist. You will need to allow us 48 hours to arrange for the interpreter and prepare them for the task.This service is based on hourly rate and is charged according to the complexity of the subject matter and the language required.
If interested please email translations@birmingham-chamber.com and a member of staff will contact you.
This service allows you to get answers to questions in a straight forward manner without wasting your precious time. All you need is to give us a written script of all the questions you need to ask your overseas counterparts, clients or suppliers, with their contact telephone numbers and email addresses in case they are a not available at a specific time.
Our interpreter will translate your questions into the required language, call your contact and ask the questions on your behalf, all answers are then written down, translated back to English and sent back to you.
This service is based on hourly rate and is charged according to the complexity of the subject matter and the language required.
If interested please email translations@birmingham-chamber.com and a member of staff will contact you.
Reliable
Your business can trust the Chamber’s reliable team of translators, which are leading Birmingham-based interpreting service providers with decades of experience
Fully managed
From start to finish and throughout, our translations services projects are fully managed – saving your business time and money
Quality Interpreting
The Chambers translations service’s blend of expertise, talent and commitment to high quality translations services is at the heart of our work
Frequently asked questions
Yes. The Chambers translation and interpreting team, has more than three decades of experience across all sectors from event organisers, corporate, HR, government and the public sector, legal, and AV companies. The chances are very good that we have interpreters with experience in your sector, just ask. But really, our easy adaptation to different sectors and sub-sectors is just as important as our sector list. Our interpreters are experienced specialists; we assign them to jobs based on their proven performance.
Simultaneous interpreting requires such intense concentration, interpreters work in teams of two. Each interpreter translates for no more than 30 to 45 minutes at a stretch. Our project managers can advise you on the right amount of language resource for your conference.
Translation is written. Interpreting or Interpretation is spoken. They’re very different skills: we offer both.
Yes. Our Chamber translation and interpreting team, provides a comprehensive, specialised service. We don’t just book interpreters, we:
- Provide a level of service that is tailored to the specific requirements of your event
- Draw on 30 years of experience, ISO 9001:2000 qualification and robust company processes
- Ensure that the interpreters chosen for your job have proven experience at meetings in your sector
- Offer complete confidentiality