The Technological Turn in Interpreting and Its Short-Term Implications

The field of interpreting is currently undergoing what I described in 2018 as a "Technological Turn" (Fantinuoli, 2018), a term highlighting the transformative impact of recent technological advancements on the profession. Until that time, interpreting had experienced relatively limited technological influence compared to other language-related fields, such as written translation. However, emerging developments in remote interpreting, computer-assisted interpreting, and machine interpreting were, so my prediction, poised to reshape the entire ecosystem of spoken language translation, and consequently also the interpreting profession.