AI and New Language Technologies

Hello Andrea,

I would recommend watching the presentation called 'Code and prejudice' by Marina Pantcheva from Translating Europe Forum 2025. Here's the link: #2025TEF - TEF–TALK: CODE AND PREJUDICE

The presentation touches upon how AI bias emerges in larger language models, and illustrates the presence of AI bias through examples. Marina Pantcheva also explains why we should avoid bias in AI, which could be interesting to see in light of how AI shapes or affects our language right now.

Thank you! I would like to add another conference on this topic:Convergence 2026: Human-AI Integration for Multilingual and Accessible Communication - Guildford, UK, 17 - 19 June 2026

The second edition of the Convergence conference will create an opportunity to bring together innovative research on the evolving landscape of AI in the context of multilingual and accessible communication, reflecting on the complexity and effects of using AI-driven technologies in these fields. The conference will foster a multidisciplinary dialogue that will generate new theoretical perspectives and practical research, focusing on themes such as the ethical aspects of AI in translation and interpreting, AI-enabled digital accessibility and societal inclusion, and the impact of Generative AI on language mediation. We will also examine the evolving role of language professionals, the power of Large Language Models (LLMs) in supporting multilingual communication, and the crucial need for responsible use of language AI in the public sector. The conference will publish full papers in open access proceedings with assigned ISBN and DOI.

Hi Susan!

I've experienced similar problems with our AV-technicians. According to them the problem lies in how cables can feed into computers. But I think Barbara Ahrens in Cologne found a soulution to that when they installed their system couple of years ago.

In Stockholm we have resorted to having students plug in mp3 players to their own console and thereby recording themselves on two channels, only works with live speaker though. As soon as we want to do it with a recording from e.g. Speech Repository we have the sound mixed on the two channels.

That's all I have,

Elisabet

Hi Andy,

I have used GoReact before https://get.goreact.com/ and it works very well as a on online platform to upload activities, listen to students' recordings and give feedback. It is not perfect, but it is a great platform to create different types of assignments (upload webinars, video or audio interpreting assignments, recordings uploaded by yourself, students' presentations, etc.) and the best feature is that it is very interactive. You can provide feedback in different ways (written comments, tags created by yourself to flag up different aspects/criteria, audio feedback, links to videos, etc.). Feedback comments are time coded: students can see when they made that "minor omission" or came up with a beautiful solution that you tagged as "great solution"; they get statistics of the different types of "errors" or good solutions for each recording and course and you can create templates to enter marks. You can set up activities for self assessment, peer assessment and tests.

From a more technical point of you, students need to have a webcam in order to be able to upload recordings, even if they want to upload audio recordings only, but most laptops have one and, alternatively, students can use the app on their phones to access the platform and record themselves.

Each student has to pay around $30, if I remember correctly, unless you have an institutional license. That is a downside, but cheaper than most text books in other disciplines!

I tested it and led its implementation with my former colleague Aída Martínez-Gómez at John Jay a couple of years ago, so happy to answer any questions.

Eloísa

Hi Andrew. If a platform can offer a number of languages, i.e. channels, then I am sure it can do the same for a number of interpreting students. So rather than switch between FR, DE, ES, EN, PL etc you'd switch between student 1, 2, 3, 4 etc. I'm not an expert, but that would be my guess anyway. The best thing to do would be to contact providers with that query.