InterpretBank ASR is your Digital Boothmate, a virtual assistant designed to support you by means of transcribing in real-time what people are saying, letting you translate on the fly the transcription and, for some source languages, providing instant access to terminology from your glossaries and suggesting numbers and names. With the power of automatic speech recognition and specially trained language models, InterpretBank ASR delivers unmatched precision in real-time spoken language analysis.
Key Features
- Automatic lookup of user glossary and numbers through Speech Recognition (language dependent)
- Fast machine translation lookup through highlight of transcript or typing of words
- Session sharing for real-time collaboration among colleagues
Price Model
- The BASIC version offers time-limited sessions, which can be restarted as needed, subject to server availability. The BASIC is included in your active SUBSCRIPTION or, in case of Perpetual license, in your PRO Pack
- The PRO version, available on a pay-as-you-go credit system, provides unlimited session times, greater accuracy and can be used on any browser.
To purchase credit for the PRO version, contact us at info@interpretbank.com
Language availability
- Speech Recognition is available for: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Dutch, Hungarian, Polish, Slovenian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean
- Machine Translation is available into virtually all languages from the source languages supported by our speech recognition
- Automatic lookup of your glossaries is available for English/French/Spanish as source language and into virtually all languages
Create a session without any glossary
This session allows you to use speech recognition and machine translation without the need to upload any glossary to the cloud.
- In your InterpretBank Desktop, select menu AI Tools | Open InterpretBank ASR | Without any glossary.
- A webpage will open in your web browser. If Chrome is not your default browser, please copy and paste the URL into a Chrome session.
- This feature supports the following speaker languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Dutch, Hungarian, Polish, Slovenian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean
- This session will offer you: live transcription and machine translation
Create a session with a glossary
This session allows you to use speech recognition, machine translation and automatic suggestions based on your glossary. This requires you to upload a glossary to the cloud.
- Open a glossary in InterpretBank Desktop
- In your InterpretBank Desktop, select menu AI Tools | Open InterpretBank ASR | Without any glossary.
- A webpage will open in your web browser. If Chrome is not your default browser, please copy and paste the URL into a Chrome session.
- This feature supports the following speaker languages: English, French, Spanish
- This session will offer you: live transcription, machine translation, automatic lookup of your glossary, highlight of numbers and names
Share a running session with other interpreters
This features is available only for sessions created with a glossary.
Share the results on your screen with your colleagues without the need for them to have InterpretBank and connect to the event's audio.
To share a session, click the Settings icon on the top bar. A pop-up will appear, displaying a URL that you can easily share with others via email.
Recipients of the link can choose their preferred target language upon accessing the shared session.
How to connect the audio of a physical console (on-site)
You need to send the audio (the content you hear in your headphones while interpreting) to the App. To connect a Mac or PC computer with an interpreting console, you will need the following cables and adapters:
Connect the audio line-out of the booth console to the audio-in jack of the external sound card. Connect the sound card to your computer.
How to connect an audio source from your computer on Windows 10/11
This configuration allows InterpretBank ASR to listen to a source on your computer (youtube, zoom, etc.) and route the audio also to InterpretBank ASR. Note that you can not speak in your mike (for example for RSI) at the same time. See the limitation sessions below and how to configure your working station for RSI.
You can use the Windows build-in virtual sound card called Stereo Mix (should you not see Stereo Mix among the sound cards, refer to this short video on how to show it):
- open the Sound options of Win10 or Win11 by right clicking on the speaker icon in the menu bar, and selecting "Sound", see screenshot 1
- make sure that in tab "Playback" the Speaker (or headphones) are selected, see screenshot 2
- make sure that in tab "Recording" the Stereo Mix is selected, see screenshot 3
Troubleshooting
Modifying standard audio on a Windows machine can be daunting. If the above solution does not work, you might want to check these:
How to connect an audio source from your computer on macOS
This configuration allows InterpretBank ASR to listen to a source on your computer (youtube, zoom, etc.) and route the audio also to InterpretBank ASR. Note that you can not speak in your mike (for example for RSI) at the same time. See the limitation sessions below and how to configure your working station for RSI.
You can use the VB-Cable virtual sound card. You can download it here. Once installed, VB-Cable will appear in the list of your sound devices. You can see tyour sound devices in macOS System Preferences | Sounds.
- Navigate to System Preferences | Sounds and select VB-Cable both in tab Output and Input. Now the sound on your computer will be automatically routed to the soundcard. You will not hear any audio from the speaker/earplugs anymore. InterpretBank ASR will be able to hear the sound in your computer.
- Open the InterpretBank ASR session in Chrome. When clicking on OFFLINE - Connect Chrome will ask for permissions to access the audio. Click on yes.
Note on Remote Simultaneous Interpretation (RSI)
For Remote Simultaneous Interpretation (on platforms like Zoom, i.e. whenever you normally use one device to listen and speak), we recommend using two separate computers – one dedicated to the videoconferencing platform (where you listen and translate) and the other for InterpretBank ASR. Configuring a single computer's audio channels to accommodate both applications can be complex and is generally not advised.
Video
For further details, watch this video from Techforword.
