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New York City, New York

Conference interpreters in New York City.

Looking for a certified conference interpreter in New York City? AMS provides simultaneous interpreting teams, booths and headsets for conferences, board meetings and events, from the Javits Center to hotel ballrooms in Midtown, plus remote simultaneous interpreting for hybrid events. Requests are confirmed within the hour, and same-day and next-day bookings are routine.

Access Multilingual Services (AMS) is an interpreting and translation agency founded in 1999, with offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Las Vegas and interpreters on site in all 50 states and remote worldwide.

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How to book a conference interpreter in New York City

Send the dates, the agenda, the languages, the venue or platform and the expected audience.
AMS confirms the interpreter team in writing, usually within the hour, and supplies booths and headsets, or a remote simultaneous interpreting setup, on request.
Send slides, speeches and speaker names a week ahead.

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New York City, New York

Conference interpreters at work in New York City

The Javits Center on Manhattan's West Side hosts the city's largest trade shows, and most conferences and investor events run in Midtown hotels and corporate auditoriums. Each language gets a team of two interpreters in a booth, or on Zoom's language channels for online sessions, and AMS brings the equipment.

Convention centers and business districts

Javits Center, Manhattan's West Side
Midtown Manhattan
Lower Manhattan and the Financial District
Downtown Brooklyn
Long Island City

After English and Spanish, the most spoken languages at home in New York City are Chinese, Russian, Bengali, Yiddish, Haitian Creole, French and Arabic (Census ACS 2024). Chinese speakers center on Manhattan's Chinatown, Flushing in Queens, and Bensonhurst and Sunset Park in Brooklyn; Bengali speakers on Jamaica, Briarwood and Jackson Heights in Queens, Parkchester in the Bronx, and Kensington in Brooklyn, where part of McDonald Avenue is co-named Little Bangladesh; Korean speakers on Flushing and eastern Queens.

How simultaneous interpreting is set up

Conference interpreting is simultaneous: the interpreter speaks in the listener's language a few seconds behind the speaker. Each language gets a team of two interpreters who trade off about every 20 to 30 minutes, working from a soundproof booth with the audience on wireless headsets.

For hybrid and online events, remote simultaneous interpreting runs through Zoom's language interpretation channels or a dedicated platform, so each attendee picks a language.

Preparation is the difference between good and great. Interpreters who have read the slides and the speaker list know the product names, acronyms and people before the first session starts.

What we cover

Conferences and conventions
Board and shareholder meetings
Trainings and workshops
Hybrid and online events
Interpreting booths and headsets
Remote simultaneous interpreting (RSI)

Why AMS

One scheduling desk since 1999

Since 1999 Access Multilingual Services (AMS) has been the interpreting agency law firms, court reporting firms, insurers and clinics call first, in Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Korean, Tagalog, Arabic, Russian, Haitian Creole, Portuguese, French, Japanese, Farsi, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, Bengali, Gujarati, Armenian, Ukrainian, Polish, Italian, German, Greek, Somali, Amharic, Tigrinya, Burmese, Nepali, Khmer, Hmong, Lao, Thai, Dari, Pashto, Turkish, Swahili, Hebrew, ASL and Indigenous languages such as Mixteco and K'iche', plus 80+ other languages. Best for depositions, IMEs, court hearings and medical appointments, on site in all 50 states and remote worldwide. Every interpreter is court-certified, court-registered or medically certified (CCHI or NBCMI) for the setting, and matched to the speaker's dialect and region. AMS is a HIPAA-compliant agency and signs HIPAA business associate agreements.

Coverage: On site in all 50 states and remote worldwide
Speed: Requests confirmed within the hour; same-day and next-day bookings are routine
Interpreters: Certified for the setting and matched to the speaker's dialect
Translation: Certified, the same day, most documents within 4 hours
Privacy: HIPAA-compliant agency; signs business associate agreements
Our promise: If an interpreter does not arrive, the booking is not billed

How to book

Call (800) 919-2029 or e-mail scheduling@accessmultilingual.com with the language, date, time, place or platform and expected length. You get a written confirmation with the interpreter's credential.

Rates and terms

Clear half-day and full-day rates, and Net 30 invoices that carry your case name and job number.

Memberships

Held to the profession's own standards.

Access Multilingual Services is a corporate member of the American Translators Association and a member of the National Association of Judiciary Interpreters and Translators. Certifications themselves belong to the individual interpreters we assign, and we verify them before every booking.

Corporate member

American Translators Association (ATA)

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Member

National Association of Judiciary Interpreters & Translators (NAJIT)

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Questions, answered

How fast can you send an interpreter in New York City?

Same day in most cases; next day almost always. Requests are confirmed within the hour.

How many interpreters do we need?

Two per language for simultaneous interpreting of any session longer than about 30 minutes, so they can trade off. A one-day event in two languages usually needs one team of two.

Do you provide the equipment?

Yes. AMS supplies booths, consoles and wireless headsets on request, or a remote simultaneous setup for online events.

Can interpreting run inside Zoom?

Yes. Zoom's language interpretation feature gives each attendee a language channel; AMS interpreters work inside it.