Terminology and knowledge software for professional interpreters
InterpretBank is an intuitive terminology tool to create and manage multilingual glossaries. It supports easy glossary sharing with colleagues, you can keep your database in the cloud (DropBox, OneDrive, etc.) and access it from several devices (your PC and laptop), you can easily import and export your data, it helps you to create your glossaries by means of automatic translation and connection with your favourite online terminology databases, and much more. It has a powerful conference modality called ConferenceMode for looking up glossaries in the booth, and an easy to use tool to memorize terms. To help you preparing a new assignment, it can interact with the Web to search for translations and definitions or look up terms directly in your reference texts. A brand new version (4) is coming out in the next months. So stay tuned!
VERSION 4 coming out in summer!
Create and edit glossaries
Create and edit your glossaries or import your legacy glossaries created in Excel or Word, find translations automatically on the Web, organize your terms by assignment or domain, integrate your preparatory texts and much more.
Memorize glossaries
Before the beginning of an assignment, visually learn the terms of your glossary with this extremely easy to use memorization utility.
Look up your glossary
In the booth, you concentrate on interpreting. InterpretBank helps you to quickly look up specialized terminology.
How it works
Easy to learn. Easy to use. Easy to love.
InterpretBank is a modular tool: speed up your preparation writing better specialized glossaries or import your old ones using the Edit modality (TermMode); memorize the most important terms before the beginning of the conference with the Memorization modality (MemoryMode); and finally in the booth, look up difficult or less recurrent terms with the Conference modality (ConferenceMode). Click on the images to discover more about the single modules or see the Features section for an overview!
Edit modality
Create, edit and manage your glossaries
- All your glossaries are saved in a unique database, making them easily reusable in the future - Writing glossaries is quick: you can search multiple websites recommended by interpreters simultaneously (for example IATE, LEO etc.), automatic translation and so forth - Sort your table by various criteria - Import your legacy glossaries - Easy exchange glossaries with colleagues
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Memorization modality
Learn your glossary
- Visual learning of conference glossaries - Scuffle terms for better memorization
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Conference modality
Look up terms in a booth-friendly way
- Quick search designed for the booth - Search only in source language or in all languages - Automatic error correction - Accent and case insensitive
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Key features
When working on a specialized conference, professional communication requires the use of correct terminology. Discover some of the features and services that help you to improve your interpreting quality during the preparation of your assignment and during interpreting.
Designed for the booth
Non-invasive look up of terms
Search your specialized glossary quickly without extra disturbing the interpreting process. If you can't find your term in the conference glossary, InterpretBank will automatically search in all your database, helping you access all your terminological resources. It corrects typing errors (you can do while writing your glossary or looking it up), exclude non-lexical words (articles, etc.), search accent and case insensitive, search only in the source language or in all glossary languages, and much more! Just find the options that suit you best!
Memorization
Memorize your terms
Before the conference begins, you can memorize your glossaries in a simple and visual way! The terms are shown alternatively in the source and in the target language. You can step to the next term manually or automatically setting the speed in seconds. To improve memorization, you can scuffle the word order and the language. The software is useful to memorize small glossaries (~50-200 terms) before the beginning of the event.
Automatic translation
Speed up your glossary creation
Start finding the best translation for your terms with the suggestions of our automatic translation utility. It can save you a lot of time! At the moment we are proud to count on services like the well-know translation portals dict.cc, mymemory or free resources like Wikipedia. Or you can navigate between the different terminology websites to see what each came up with. The number of sites you can directly access to is continually growing. The websites are recommended by professional interpreters around the world.
Integration of preparatory text
Look up terms in your preparatory texts
You have received from your customer presentations in PowerPoint or documents in PDF. Integrate them in your conference glossary and look them up directly from it using this concordancer utility. Right click on a term in your glossary and you will get all examples of this term from the texts: this is the best way to learn how terms are used in real contexts by the conference participants!
Find definitions for your terms
Integrate term definitions found on the Web
Use the information richness of the Web to to write better glossaries or to better understand the topic you are working on! While you are creating a glossary, you can mark a term and find definitions in both the original and target language
Lookup online databases
Find translation on your preferred online dictionary
What do you do when you miss a translation for a term in your glossary? You open Internet and search your preferred online dictionary or terminological database, right? Most times you have to digit the Web address, set source and target language and type the word you are searching for. Let InterpretBank do it for you, just a right click on the word... that's all! If you want you can simultaneously open several databases at once, in a single Browser tab!
University Program & Research
InterpretBank has been developed at the Faculty for Translation and Interpreting of the University of Mainz/Germersheim. With this academic vocation in mind, we want to facilitate universities opening up to the world of computer-assisted interpreting (CAI) and offer them special conditions (in many cases free licenses) to teach InterpretBank. We do a lot of academic research in the field of CAI and offer the tool and our support to any researcher who wants to do research in the field. Below you can find some selected publications on InterpretBank
Universities teaching InterpretBank
The following are the universities that have introduced a dedicated "computer-assisted interpreting" class teaching new technologies in the context of interpreting. These universities teach InterpretBank as one of the main tools:
Scuola di Lingue e Letterature, Traduzione e Interpretazione Forlì/Bologna (Italy) here
Universität Innsbruck (Austria) here
Universität Leipzig (Germany) here
There are many other universities where teachers present tools for interpreters in their classes. This is a list of universities which have received free or campus licenses to teach InterpretBank
Bellevue College, Washington (USA) here
New York University (USA) here
ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften (Switzerland) here
Fachhochschule Köln (Germany) here
University of Osijek (Croatia) here
Tuzla University (Bosnia and Herzegovina) here
KU Leuven (Belgium) here
Universität Wien (Austria) here
University of the West India here
Ask us for a free university license (temporary license) or for a permanent license for your labs (small fee applies)!
23/11/2016 - The release of the brand new version (4) of InterpretBank takes more time. This time we want to take our time to lunch a new version which is perfect from the first day. New features (we have heard your needs), much simpler to use, intuitive and more power. We are also working on a new Website with usueful features for the user and much more.
19/11/2016 - The new developments of InterpretBank have been presented at the conference Translating and the computer, 38, in London. A lot of interest among the participants. Maybe a new cooperation with IATE for the future.
04/07/2016 - We are proud to announce that a new version of InterpretBank will come out end of summer. This will not be just an update but a real new version featuring a lot of new functions. We are rewriting the code now and will post on our Facebook site all the news!
16/05/2016 - A new module for Computer-aided interpreter preparation will be presented at the Translation and Interpreting Conference held at the University of Trieste/Italy. The free module allows you to collect reference texts from the Web, extract terminology, find collocations and discover how conference partecipants really speak and create better glossaries.
01/05/2016 - An update will come out in July featuring: quicker search engine with big database, improved import/export, better language visualization, bug fiexes.
You can download, install and try the demo version for free. After installation, you have 30 days to test the software. If you like it, you can buy a license and you will be able to continue using all glossaries you created with the demo version! A brand new version ( Version 4) is coming out soon. If you buy a license now, this will be okay also for the new version!
InterpretBank has been designed for Windows. However, with the next release (Version 4) we will have a version running on Apple too. So stay tuned! For the time being, you can use InterpretBank on a Mac using the officially supported emulation software Crossover. After installing Crossover you can simply install InterpretBank on your Mac and start using it. Many users use this solution (see the user statements at the end of this page). Read here for some alternative ideas on how to run InterpretBank on a Mac. The new version (4) coming out in the next months will run on macs without the need to use additional software.
Pricing
If you like the software, you can buy a license here.
If you are a student, after payment please send us a scan of your valid student ID (it must contain the dates of validity!) at info@interpretbank.com . You will receive a license key within 1 working day.
University license
Free or upon agreement
If you are a university teacher and you want to include this software in your classes, just contact us. We will provide you with 6-months licenses for free! You can use these licenses on university computers or distribute them to your students for installation on laptops. If you need permanent licenses (for your labs), just write us an e-mail, we will send you an offer.
The software is sold in the U.S. by the authorized vendor Fastspring. VAT is applied depending on the country of purchase.
Create and manage your glossaries in an easy and intelligent way!
TermMode is the starting point of your computer-assisted terminology management system. Create and manage your glossaries and forget complex software or hundreds of Word/Excel glossaries on your PC! Store all your glossaries in a unique database. Access information from the Web, for example to find definitions and translations in many languages. This will help you to speed up the glossary creation and improve your conference preparation! Export and import your legacy glossaries. Perform basic lookup operations in TermMode while in the booth use the booth-friendly modality called ConferenceMode to access your glossaries.
What does TermMode offer you:
Easy creation of new glossaries (with subglossaries)
Import/Export from and to Microsoft Excel and Word
Easy exchanging of glossaries between interpreters
Automatic backup of your database for security reasons
Printing of your glossaries via Web Browser
Merging of existing glossaries
Glossaries with up to 5 languages
Show glossary with only language fields (term and its translation) or, if you need it, show more fields for extra information
TermMode can help you to find translation candidates of your terms! Just select one term in the table view and start the automatic translation functionality. TermMode will try to find a translation candidate from its internal database or will search different terminology providers. At the moment we are proud to count on services like the well-know translation portals dict.cc, mymemory or free resources like Wikiterm. Note: This service may help you to speed up the glossary creation time and give you possible "starting points" for your terminology research. But don't forget: you are the professional interpreter, not the computer!
Automatic search for definitions
Use the information richness of the Web to to write better glossaries or to better understand the topic you are working on! While you are creating a glossary, you can mark a term in one language and start a TermInfo view: a window with following information will be shown:
* Definitions in original and target language* Translation candidates of the source term* Links to Web pages to get further information* Key Word in Context (from the Web or your documents)
Lookup online databases
What do you do when you miss a translation for a term in your glossary? You open Internet and search your preferred online dictionary or terminological database, right? Most times you have to digit the Web address, set source and target language and type the word you are searching for. Let InterpretBank do it for you, just a right click on the word... that's all! If you want you can simultaneously open several databases at once, in a single Browser tab!
Integration of your reference texts (Beta)
You have reference texts in one or more languages? Access them directly from your glossary. Clicking on a term of your glossary, you will get a list of all occurrences of that term in context. You will see how the term is used in your reference texts and you will be able to access the single sources, being them Websites or local documents!
* Speak the language of your clients!* Understand how language works!* Key Words in Context (build-in concordancer)!
Import and Export
Exchange glossaries with other users:* Use the TermMode's format to simply give one of your glossaries to another TermMode's user!
Import glossaries from:* MS Excel 2009/2011 (.xlsx)
* MS Word 2009/2011 (.docx)
* Simple text files (tab separated), i.e. exports from a CAT-Tool
Export glossaries to:* HTML (for printing or on-screen use)
* MS Excel
* Android (for looking up on a mobile device)
* Simple text files
ConferenceMode
Look up glosarry quickly and in a booth-friendly way!
Look up your glossaries in a booth-friendly way using this very simple view! In the booth everything must be easy to use and fast. Just enter a few letters and you'll get the best results from your conference glossary. If no term is found, ConferenceMode will automatically search in ALL your glossaries. And coming soon: if nothing is found in your glossaries, ConferenceMode will try to find a translation on the Web!
What does ConferenceMode offer you:
Easy to use and clean interface
Access to your conference glossary
Less results through smart search algorithm
Exclusion of stopwords
Customizable view, only words and translations or extra infos too
Memorize your conference glossary in an easy and intuitive way!
Memorize your glossaries in a simple and visual way! The terms are shown alternatively in the source and in the target language. You can step to the next term manually or automatically setting the speed in seconds. The software is useful to memorize small glossaries (~50-100 terms) before the beginning of a conference.
What does MemoryMode offer you:
Easy to use and clean interface
Learn explicitly your conference terminology before the assignment
Scuffle term order to improve memorization
Change language order for bidirectional memorization
