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An evaluation of AI Interpreting by the World Health Organization yielded, according to Dr. Claudio Fantinuoli, an interesting but unsurprising conclusion:“assessment results are surprisingly low for all languages.” To be fair, the technology has progressed and continues to progress rapidly. But it will be some time before there is anything like human parity. The biggest take-away from the study: it is difficult to evaluate AI Interpreting. It isn’t just about asking whether it can work, it is about asking “rather for whom, when, and why.”

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“In simultaneous interpretation, the auditory message received by the interpreter is of crucial importance as every feature of the source message may influence the rendition” AIIC, 2020