Looking at A. moving around, an iphone in one hand with headset, pointing at some devices on the meeting table, sending short side messages and glances while allowing the conversation between the remote teams to flow, in simultaneous mode, I can't ignore that all this goes against the stories around simultaneous interpretation. The setting is no international conference for sure, but regular business meeting involving teams scattered over the planet. No one is expecting for formalities. As long as the shows goes on, it meets the requirements. A. has no training at all in interpretation. He just does it while managing the dynamics of the exchange. The managing side is part of liaison interpreting, what a liaison interpreter MUST do in small scale meetings so that the communication mill turns. I wrote about the liaison interpreter as an interventionist. I never wrote about simultaneous in liaison interpreting because simultaneous is not associated with liaison. Why is that? Where is the threshold? A. is expecting me one of these days to jump in to the pool of simultaneous as he does, that is, by doing it. The discussion going on is poorly formatted, in the sense that nobody is reading a text. There are rather short burst of exchanges, dialogue interpretation it is.
Lately, in close settings, table as small as in a restaurant, three people at best besides myself, I have tried in short burst to do quasi-simultaneous, that is cueing in purpose the speakers to go while I voice over without much delay. The purpose is to accelerate the flow. It sounds messy. It must sound messy to the listeners, maybe so to the speaker. But at times it works.
I have been into the market for a portable system, so called tour guide system, I could carry around and use in small settings where I usually deliver liaison. The Panasonic Panaguide system is a candidate. Only, it's a professional system, that is priced at corporate price and way to big an investment for a freelance interpreter. Does anyone reading this has an idea for an alternative solution?
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