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American Language Services
http://www.alsglobal.net/
For nearly a quarter of a Century, American Language Services (ALS) has been a premier provider of languages services. We provide top quality services for a significant number of Major Corporations, Law Firms and Governmental Agencies in the domestic US market and abroad. We work around the world in all languages for written translations, transcriptions and verbal interpreting.
We have built an outstanding reputation for providing timely and cost effective translation, transcription and interpreting services. ALS bridges the communication gap between unique languages and distinct cultures by paying meticulous attention to the details. We know that succeeding globally in today's business world requires paying attention to many subtle language nuances. Our continuous dedication to the details and meeting our clients' goals have made ALS a worldwide leader in the translation and interpreting industry for both written & verbal communication projects.

Court Interpreters Office
http://sdnyinterpreters.org/
The Southern District of New York Interpreters Office coordinates the provision of interpreters and/or translators as needed by the District Court, Pretrial Services Agency, Probation Department or other arm of the court.

Pursuant to the Court Interpreter's Act (28 USC 1827), each federal court is required to provide, at judiciary expense, a certified or otherwise qualified interpreter in judicial proceedings instituted by the United States for a party who speaks only or primarily a language other than English. According to the Act, the United States Attorney's Office is responsible for securing the services of interpreters for government witnesses.


Video Remote Interpreting
http://www.bisvri.com/
Ready when you are. Even at the last minute. A medical emergency. A spur-of-the-moment phone conference. A walk-in client. You can’t always predict when you are going to need an interpreter, but with Video Remote Interpreting (VRI) from Birnbaum Interpreting Services (BIS), you’re always just a click away from one.

BIS VRI combines video conferencing technology with professional, accurate interpreters to enable Deaf, hard of hearing and hearing individuals to communicate via a live, qualified remote interpreter. On-demand VRI from BIS is affordable, accessible and available at a moment’s notice. BIS VRI makes it easier for companies and organizations to comply with ADA regulations—and, more importantly, facilitate effective communication when time is of the essence.


Georgia Interpreting Services Network
http://www.gisn.org/
Georgia Interpreting Services Network (GISN) is a not-for-profit organization that provides state-wide sign language services. GISN provides clear, complete and precise communications between Deaf and hearing participants. Our Services allow for equal access as the right of a Deaf/Hearing Impaired person, as defined under Georgia and Federal law.

We provide qualified, certified and professional interpreters. GISN enlists the employment of interpreters statewide, which results in cost-savings to you and the state of Georgia by minimizing travel costs. GISN is changing the way sign language interpreting services are delivered. We make scheduling the right interpreter quick and uncomplicated. We guarantee you a qualified interpreter, personalized customer service, and efficient communication.


iSign
http://www.isign.co.nz/
iSign is a booking agency that provides connections between Sign Language interpreters and the Deaf and hearing people who use them. Clients set up an account which allows them to confidentially make requests, bookings, confirmations and cancellations via the website. Interpreters '(only) are then able to view all available assignments (according to their own level of experience) and to accept assignments online.

iSign provides: Internet based assignment lists and instant booking confirmation; Convenient remote access to bookings, confirmations, billing, feedback etc. 24 hours 7 days (once registration has been completed – registration may take up to one working day); Consistent standards for interpreters...


Just Sign - Sign Language Interpreting Services.
http://www.justsign.co.uk/
JUST SIGN was established by Brenda Mackay who has been in the field of Sign Language Interpreting for over 18 years - during this time the need to specialise within the legal domain was identified. The ultimate aim of JUST SIGN is simple - to provide the highest possible quality of service. Essentially a sign language interpreter can be used in any situation where a deaf person is wanting to communicate with a hearing person (and vice-versa). The need for clear and accurate information is of prime importance within the legal setting.

JUST SIGN provide high quality Interpreting services in a wide range of settings throughout the UK - including: Legal, Conferences, Meetings, Seminars, Presentations, One-to-one appointments.


Listen Technologies - Language Interpretation Solutions
http://www.listentech.com/
When the subtlety of meaning can be lost in as much as a tone of voice, clear sound is vitally important to effective language interpretation. Listen products deliver the clarity, the precision, and the reliability that are absolutely necessary in today’s world. Whether giving a tour for visiting dignitaries, training international employees, or providing dialog in a performing arts center, Listen’s wireless audio solutions deliver crystal clear audio so you can ensure people don’t miss a thing.

Conference & Simultaneous Interpretation Technical Services
http://www.simultaneousinterpretation.com.au/
Welcome to the home of Conference and Simultaneous Interpretation Technical Services. We specialise in providing Simultaneous Interpretation equipment & services to conference organisers. Are you planning a conference or meeting with participants from different countries, speaking several different languages? If so, then we can help with 25 years of experience and with our high-level of expertise in providing Simultaneous Interpretation equipment & services for conferences, meetings and seminars.
We can provide specialised equipment such as headsets, interpreters booths, receivers, microphones etc. as well as the necessary expertise to install and monitor the interpretation equipment. We work closely with clients to manage the logistics of interpretation equipment, including placement and installation of the equipment, equipment security, and technical monitoring during the conference. We have provided our services to numerous clients for conferences across Australia and New Zealand. Our clients enjoy the benefits of an expert, friendly and hassle free experience.

DEAF Way Interpreting Services
http://www.deafway.net/
Deaf Way Interpreting Services was founded in 1997 and provides the St. Louis area with the best source for all sign language interpreting needs. We have met the needs of clients ranging from small law firms to Fortune 500 companies needing interpreting services. Whether an interpreter is required for a single assignment or for ongoing situations, it is our goal to provide you with the highest quality professional interpreters.
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law by President George Bush on July 26, 1990, opening up services and employment opportunities to some 49 million Americans with disabilities. Despite that step forward, however, societal and physical barriers remain - and no more so than for people who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing. Significant barriers to accessibility to people who are Deaf can be eliminated with the aid of professional sign language interpreters. With that goal in mind, DEAF Way was created as an entrepreneurial, for-profit division of Paraquad.

Professional Translation & Interpreting Services
http://www.greattranslators.com/
Continental Interpreting provides professional translation services enabling companies to transcend language and cultural barriers. A respected Language Service Provider in Orange County. With over 5,000 certified interpreters and translators worldwide, fluent in over 150 languages, CIS provides interpreting and translation services that enable companies to transcend language and cultural barriers.
In today’s world, the prospect of a global marketplace is becoming a reality. Businesses travel the globe exploring new markets and opportunities. Families relocate across country lines in search of a more prosperous life. Without professional translation services and interpreters this would not be possible. Translation and interpreting are much more than the exchange of words between languages. Effective communication combines the knowledge of cultural differences. For over 15 years, Continental Interpreting Services (CIS) has transcended cultural boundaries, delivering high-caliber, experienced interpreters and translators.

Language interpretation services - Nettranslation
http://www.nettranslation.co.uk/
Whether your meeting is national or international, formal or informal, it is unlikely to achieve the best results if there are language barriers. We are highly experienced at facilitating such meetings, and can provide a sensitive, precise and diplomatic interpreting service. We work only with qualified and trained interpreters. They must be able to think and react very quickly and to deliver the speaker's message with the right expressions, emphasis and accuracy.
We can provide interpreting services for all kind of business sectors:Travel and tourism, Hospitality and catering, Entertainment, Finance and banking, Retail and wholesale, Manufacturing, Engineering, Telecommunications. Our conference interpreting service has served businesses and governments at events such as conventions, sales meetings, training sessions, board and committee meetings, annual meetings and press conferences. Our interpreter can accompany clients to meetings, interviews, press conferences, dinners and all kinds of official and unofficial functions when informal and instantaneous interpreting services might be required.

Sign Language Interpreting Services Agency
http://www.signinterpreting.com/
Based in Sacramento California, we actively serve surrounding counties of the greater Sacramento area, the Bay Area, Southern California and Nevada. If you are looking for a Certified Sign Language ASL Interpreter for communication between hearing and Deaf persons you won’t be disappointed in our services. We carefully screen all our interpreters for the appropriate skills and background for each request! Should you have any comments or questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us via phone or email.
Interpreters that work for SLISA are carefully screened for Certification and skill. We require interpreters to be certified by the National Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (RID) and adhere to the Professional Code of Conduct. We also accept National Association of the Deaf (NAD) certified level 4 and 5 and EIPA level 3 - 5 interpreters which are placed in appropriate educational assignments. Our guarantee is excellent customer service with reasonable rates.

Sussex Interpreting Services
http://www.sussexinterpreting.org.uk/
Sussex Interpreting Services (SIS) is an independent social enterprise and charitable company working to relieve the poverty of individuals from Black and Minority Ethnic communities (BME) by providing community interpreting and translation, communication services, confidential advice, assistance and information.

Our vision is of an inclusive and diverse society where people of all cultural and linguistic backgrounds are able to live in harmony, play a full and valued role and enjoy the same rights. SIS exists to enable full access, for people with language needs, to publicly funded services in order to improve health, education and overall quality of life.


Chinese Interpreting Services - W.N.T.Enterprises P/L
http://www.wnt.com.au/
Interpreting in Mandarin and English and in the Shanghai Dialect for appointments in the Melbourne area is available at short notice and in country Victoria by arrangement. Typical situations are: Medical & Social Welfare consultations; Lawyer - Client consultations; Police interviews and Court work; Industrial relations situations; Business negotiations; Technical training; Interpreting for delegations and tours.

Casual rates are a minimum of AUS$ 40.00 for the first two hours plus AUS$ 20.00 booking fee. After the first two hours AUS$ 10.00 per half hour or part thereof. After normal business hours rates on application.


American Sign Language Services
http://www.aslservices.com/
American Sign Language Interpreting Services (ASL Services) is a nationwide company dedicated to providing the highest quality of professional and ethical Sign Language services at reasonable prices to the community in accordance with the communication preferences of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing persons we serve. Since 1989, ASL Services has set the regional standard in meeting ADA requirements, bridging communication, and enhancing the quality of interaction between the Deaf and Hearing communities.
We are a full-service interpreting agency that can meet your needs, from a single interpreter to interpreting large-scale conventions and everything in between. The following are some of the primary services we provide: Deaf Interpreting, Artistic Signing, Show/Theater Interpreting, Planning/Staging of large-scale events, Legal/Courtroom Interpreting, Tri-lingual and Relay (Deaf) Interpreting (English/Spanish/Sign), Medical Interpreting, Classroom Interpreting, Deaf/Blind Interpreting, and Company Training.

Washington State Court Interpreters and Translators Society
http://www.witsnet.org/
WITS is a society of court interpreters and translators in Washington State. We are proud of the progress our profession has made in our state. Through the state The Administrative Office of the Courts many languages used in our courts are now being certified and programs for orienting judges and court personnel on the use of interpreters in the courtroom setting have been produced. Research is continuing regarding the problems immigrants are facing in our judicial system.

WITS sponsors numerous events designed to help the court interpreter and translator develop their skills, develop their business, and keep abreast of the emerging profession of the court interpreter. To unite court interpreters, translators, and those having an interest in this field into a society which represents their professional ideas and interests, in accordance with the Washington State Code of Conduct for Court Interpreters.


Language Line Services
http://www.languageline.co.uk/
Language Line Services is a global interpreting and translation company, it enables organisations to communicate effectively with people of all nationalities. Language Line Services can help you speak to or understand any non-English speaker. Whether you want Telephone Interpreting or Face-to-Face Interpreting, no one is more experienced at helping you to communicate with the world.

We have been successfully supporting large multinationals, SMEs, Health Authorities, Police constabularies, Central and Local Government organisations in all the major language markets for more than 25 years. As the founder of and global market leader in Telephone Interpreting, and the leading Face to Face Interpreting company in the UK, we understand how to make sure our clients are always completely satisfied.


Interpreter & Interpretation Services
http://www.lionbridge.com/
Lionbridge Interpretation offers interpretation services in 250 languages and dialects to meet a wide variety of client needs. Lionbridge interpreters can be found working in meetings, courts, hospital emergency rooms, with call centers over the phone, and in the corridors of government agencies. Our extensive quality assurance program and client-friendly business model mean you can be assured of a qualified interpreter in the language you need, with easy ordering and tracking.

We provide clients with U.S. Federal government, EU government, private sector, legal, and medical interpreters. For hard-to-find languages, high volume requirements, or a specific subject area, Lionbridge Interpretations is your language partner. Lionbridge offers an exciting array of assignments for language professionals in all languages and dialects, in locations across the country and around the world.


RID
http://www.rid.org/
RID is a national membership organization representing the professionals who facilitate communication between people who are deaf or hard of hearing and people who can hear. Interpreters serve as professional communicators in a vast array of settings such as: churches, schools, courtrooms, hospitals and theaters, as well as on political grandstands and television.

RID’s function is to support our membership by providing the foundation needed to launch and sustain careers while ensuring quality service to the Deaf community. We do this through a four-pronged approach.


Travelsim
http://www.travelsim.net.au/
TravelSIM Language Interpretation Services are supported by a network of 1977 qualified, tested and professionally trained interpreters available to be connected within seconds. We offer these services in 157 languages, 24 X 7 X 365 at our special flat rate cost of $1.94/min AUD ($1.69/min USD). This is a truly revolutionary service, which will benefit everyone from business executives looking to make that crucial deal, to the leisure traveller wanting to order that special meal!
All of our Interpreters are bilingual/bicultural professionals trained to perform complex tasks: listen to the speaker, analyse a message in its entirety, and then interpret the message into another language while preserving the characteristics of form and substance inherent in another culture. Interpreters are trained in customer specific terminology. Every interpreter signs a confidentiality agreement.

Auckland Translations Ltd
http://www.aktranslation.co.nz/
Auckland Translations Ltd provides document translation services, website translation services, interpreting services, foreign language voice-over services and transcription services to businesses, organizations and government departments. At Auckland Translations Ltd, we translate between English and foreign languages (such as Chinese, German, Korean, Dutch, Japanese, Malay). The most common documents we translate are: business letters, legal contracts, product manuals, medical records, websites, tender documents, business memorandum, driver licences, police certificates, immigration documents, birth certificates, etc.
Our language interpreters can come to your location, be it in Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, Tauranga, Rotorua, Greymouth, Gisborne, New Plymouth, or other parts of New Zealand. They can also travel overseas to provide interpreting services to you or your business. Typically our interpreters work in the following settings: Business meetings and negotiations, Machine installation and commissioning, Courts, lawyer offices, police stations, Hospitals and clinics.

TJC
http://www.japanco.co.uk/
TJC is a unique international company based in Oxford – a centre of academic excellence situated only 50 minutes from London. Having provided technical translation, professional interpreting and specialist services for more that 20 years, our company has established itself as a global leader in this field. We maintain an extensive global network of experienced translators, professional interpreters, qualified proof-readers and Oxbridge-educated researchers, who are all native speakers of different languages.
Equipped with the broad range of skills which this network provides, TJC has been able to deliver focused and dedicated services to a diverse clientele over the years. What sets TJC apart from other companies is its aim to understand the customers’ needs and to deliver services which meet and exceed their expectations. We cover languages such as Japanese, Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese, Simplified and Traditional), Korean, French, Spanish, Italian and German; amongst others.

Language Professionals Limited
http://www.langpro.co.nz/
Language Professionals Limited offers a comprehensive range of communication services in Asian, Polynesian and European languages. Our professional translators, interpreters and language consultants are highly qualified and recognised internationally. The wide range of complementary skills at Language Professionals Limited enables us to provide a unique service to clients. In addition to conference interpreting, we also provide pre-conference translation services for all your documents.
We work with selected, highly qualified and dedicated conference translators who believe in our values. We have established exclusive and trustful relationships with them over the years and have reached the point where we only work with "la crème de la crème". The benefit to our clients is that, where possible, the same translator will work on your documents for each different assignment, thereby maintaining a consistency within the translation and how it is delivered.

Polyglot Human Resource - FAQ Translation
http://www.polyglot.com.au/
Created in 1995 in Sydney, The Polyglot Group is a provider of cross-cultural and multilingual solutions to companies that are expanding internationally. Polyglot's Team Members are selected for their linguistic and multicultural skills, as well as their professionalism and the quality of service they bring to our clients. Committed to providing you with the best results, they work in cohesive teams, fostering the exchange of ideas and information.

To answer our clients' requests for assistance, Polyglot has grown and opened branches in Melbourne, Brisbane, and Adelaide, as well as in New Caledonia. Its founder and Managing Director, Corinne Bot, has comprehensive and extensive experience in human resources, and a career spanning a number of industries.


VITS
http://www.vits.com.au/
Victoria's leading Language Services provider specialising in Interpreting, Translations, Multilingual and Bi-Cultural services for the legal, medical, corporate, mental health, education and community sectors. Our expert panel of Contract Interpreters and Translators are the foundation of VITS LanguageLink's standing as the quality language services provider. VITS LanguageLink Contract Interpreters and Translators hold professional accreditation and above obtained from the National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters (NAATI), in languages currently available for testing, combined with professional development training in specialist fields. Our extensive database of two thousand contractors Australia-wide, is one of the reasons why VITS LanguageLink is the preferred language services provider and supplier of contract interpreting and translating work.

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