A new report indicates that the telephonic interpreting market is increasing, especially in the health care sector.
A new Common Sense Advisory report emphasizes the rise in telephonic interpreting as a solution to linguistic and geographic barriers. Telephone interpreting now represents over a quarter of the world interpreting market, and income from telephonic interpreting is expected to nearly double worldwide by 2012.
According to the research group’s findings, medical interpreting represents about a third of all telephone interpreting carried out in the USA. This is not surprising since hospitals that receive federal funds are required to provide language services to all patients.
“’The mythical translation device that allows people to communicate effortlessly across written and spoken forms of all languages has yet to be invented,” said report analyst, Nataly Kelly, in a press release. “’Until that time, people can turn to telephone interpreting services that can connect them with a human interpreter for nearly 200 languages in under 30 seconds. With the availability of such services, there is no reason why people should struggle with spoken language barriers.’”
In international business, telephonic interpreting can allow your company to increase customer loyalty and reduce customer service interaction time. It also makes your products or services more accessible to non-English speakers – an important selling point even within the USA. For more information about all types of language interpreting, contact Language Translation Inc. Located in San Diego, California, we have been providing language services domestically and internationally for over 19 years. “Let us show you how good translation should be.”
Betty Carlson
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