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Spanish conference interpreters.
Looking for a certified Spanish conference interpreter? AMS provides certified Spanish conference interpreters for companies, associations and event planners, on site in all 50 states and remote worldwide. 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.
Most quote requests are answered within 10 minutes.
How to book a Spanish conference interpreter
- Send the dates, the agenda, the languages, the venue or platform and the expected audience.
- AMS confirms the Spanish 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.
Get a quote for Spanish interpreting
A few quick questions. Most quote requests are answered within 10 minutes. Prefer to talk? Call (800) 919-2029.
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Spanish conference interpreters: what to know
Spanish conference interpreting usually means neutral Latin American Spanish that every attendee understands, delivered simultaneously from a booth or through Zoom language channels. For a Spain-based audience, the team adjusts vocabulary.
More than 40 million people in the United States speak Spanish at home, and they do not all speak the same Spanish. Mexican, Central American, Caribbean, South American and Spain Spanish differ in vocabulary for everyday things, from cars and food to body parts and family relationships, and those are exactly the words that matter in a deposition or an exam room. Our schedulers ask where the speaker is from and match the interpreter to that region.
Some people from Mexico and Guatemala speak an Indigenous language first, such as Mixteco, Zapoteco, Mam, K'iche' or Q'anjob'al, and follow Spanish only partly. When that is the case, AMS books an interpreter for the Indigenous language instead of pushing ahead in Spanish.
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)
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 and QMEs, 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
Rates and terms
Clear half-day and full-day rates, and Net 30 invoices that carry your case name and job number.
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.
Member
National Association of Judiciary Interpreters & Translators (NAJIT)
View our NAJIT directory listingQuestions, answered
How fast can you send a Spanish interpreter?
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.
Which Spanish will the interpreter speak?
The variety your speaker uses. Tell us where they are from when you book, and AMS matches the interpreter to that region's Spanish.
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Book a Spanish conference interpreter
Requests are confirmed within the hour, and same-day and next-day bookings are routine.
Most quote requests are answered within 10 minutes.