Outstanding Oral Translation

Oral translation is spoken language work rather than written - what the trade calls interpreting, delivered live by a person. The work is produced by people and not by software, and what shapes it here is translation across documents, websites, media and software from one supplier, so the deliverable fits how you actually work instead of a generic template. Every file is checked by a second reviewer before it is sent.

In practice: buyers who asked for translation when what they need is someone speaking in the room. The common thread is that the finished file leaves their hands and is relied on by someone else, so it is checked against the source before delivery and anything uncertain is marked. Most of the work here ends up in front of someone with the authority to reject it.

Access is the control that matters, so it is kept to the assigned pair and nobody else. Personal records, contracts and pre-filing material arrive daily, so access is closed by default and opened only to the pair on the job. Oral translation often involves material people would not want circulated, so the file is closed to everyone except the pair working on it. Transfer is encrypted, every person involved is under NDA, and files are deleted on request once you no longer need them held.

You choose: editable Word or Google Docs, a searchable PDF for filing, or Excel where the content belongs in a table. The format for oral translation is agreed at order stage, so the first delivery is the one you can file, send on or publish. Send a template once and every later order follows it.

Nothing is produced on paper, so if a document has to be filed afterwards a written translation is a separate job. That is settled before work begins and not discovered afterwards, so the first delivery is the one you can use. The translator works into their own first language, which is what keeps long text readable instead of merely correct.

Worth asking for: the mode is chosen before booking - consecutive, whispered or simultaneous - because each needs different equipment and numbers. It is easier to set at order stage than to retrofit, and it costs nothing on top of the quoted rate when it is part of the original brief. A certified version and a plain working copy can be issued from the same job.

Yes. Oral translation is available in 100+ languages, with every file going to a native speaker of the target language and a reviewer who also reads it. Rarer languages are confirmed as available before the quote goes out, not after you have paid. Where a language is rare, availability is checked before the quote.

Translation starts at $0.10 per word, and certified documents at $25 per page, with volume pricing once a project passes an agreed size. The quote for oral translation is worked out from the word count, the subject matter and whether the document has to be certified. Oral translation is quoted from the material you send, so a short job and a long one are worked out the same way. Send the material and the figure comes back within minutes.

The delivery date is agreed before work starts, and rush delivery within 2 to 24 hours covers anything urgent. Material sent at the end of your working day is in progress overnight. Oral translation is scheduled against the people who actually do this work, not against a general pool.

The 99+% accuracy standard applies to every file, and it holds because each translation is produced by a person and then checked against the source by a second reviewer. What gets checked on oral translation is the detail a reader would otherwise have to verify alone: names, figures, terms and anything the source left ambiguous. Dates, figures and proper nouns are checked separately from the prose, because those are the details a reviewing office compares first. Anything genuinely unclear is flagged for you, never guessed at.