On-site interpreter
from the meeting to the conference
Talks with a German buyer, commissioning a machine in a plant in the south, an inspection run by an investor, a study day on the Kirchberg held in three languages: the interpreter comes to you, and the booth only appears when the format calls for it.
24 h
Notice for an on-site assignment
3
Techniques according to format
2
Interpreters per language in a booth
16
Communes with no travel charge
The set-up adapts to your session
Three questions first: how many people, how many genuinely active languages, and over how many hours. The technical answer comes after that.
Around a table
While the circle stays small, the interpreter sits with you and whispers in short stretches. No device, no rigging, and the conversation keeps its rhythm.
In front of a room
A speaker runs for a couple of minutes and the interpreter follows on. That doubles the clock but asks for nothing beyond a microphone. Ribbon cuttings, annual meetings and prize-givings work this way.
In a booth
Nothing is added to the running time, since the rendering happens as people speak. The price of that is a sound-insulated booth, consoles, headsets handed round the room, and a pair of professionals per language swapping over roughly every half hour.
On the move
A workshop tour, a production line, a site inspection, a museum visit: the interpreter carries a transmitter, the group carries receivers, and nobody has to stop. The whole kit fits in a case.
Equipment and technician
The booth, the desk, the mics and the headsets are ours; we bring them in and try everything the evening before, and a technician stays with the room all day. You hire nothing and chase nobody.
Several languages at once
From three or four simultaneous languages onwards, booths and channels have to be multiplied and a team leader put in charge. That is what gets built for a conference or an institutional day.
English round the table means nobody is bargaining
The scene is familiar in a country where four languages travel the same corridor: so as to leave nobody out, the meeting shifts to English. Everyone follows roughly, and nobody defends a position in their own language any more.
On a courtesy visit that changes nothing. In a specification, a warranty or a split of liabilities, the vagueness moves first into the minutes and then into the signed contract. Give people their language back and you give them the right to hesitate and sharpen what they mean.
The set-up follows, and it hangs above all on how many people will speak. An interpreter sitting in the group covers a working meeting with no equipment at all. A booth only becomes necessary with a full room and a programme that does not pause.
- The technique follows the format of the session
- Kit brought in, set up and tried out beforehand
- A technician present from first to last speaker
- No travel charge across the 16 communes
Four situations that come up monthly
Three of them follow from how the country is made up: three official languages, English in the meeting room, three borders within driving distance.
Machine acceptance
Bringing a line, a press or a bench into service. The maker's engineer has one language, the people who will run the machine have another, and safety briefings leave no room for a misread word.
Audits and site visits
A customer, a principal or an investor comes to see your facilities. He leafs through the registers, questions the teams, notes the answers. The interpreter goes with him from station to station.
Business meetings
Negotiating with a German supplier, a project committee with a French subsidiary, a file reviewed in English by an investor, the general meeting of a management company.
Conferences and panels
A scientific day on the Kirchberg, a thesis defence at Belval, training delivered by a speaker from abroad, a delegation received by a commune.
Be wary of a quote offering a booth staffed by a single interpreter for a whole day. Simultaneous work exhausts a kind of attention that lasts about half an hour: beyond that the delivery degrades, and the person at the microphone can do nothing about it. Working in pairs is not a sales option, it is the condition for the afternoon to resemble the morning.
What gets settled before the doors open
A working meeting can be put together in a day. Bring a booth into it and you need five to ten working days to lock down crews and hardware.
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Describe the room
How many people, which languages at the table, what programme, how long, how the room is laid out. A photograph of the place says more than a paragraph of description.
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We propose a set-up
You get the chosen technique, the number of interpreters, the equipment list and the matching price. And if a lighter option holds up, we put it forward, even when it shrinks our invoice.
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The interpreters prepare
Programme, presentation slides, speakers with their roles, internal glossary all go out in advance. Someone who worked the day before does not hesitate on the day.
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On the day itself
Sound checked and signed off before the room fills, technician at the desk, interpreters seated. The only thing waiting is your opening sentence.
A multilingual meeting to organise?
Tell us the format, the number of people expected and the languages involved. A priced set-up, equipment included, reaches you within the hour.
Six guarantees once in the room
Prepared interpreters
What you send is read, and the vocabulary is ready before the opening. Without that groundwork an interpreter stays faithful but loses speed.
Working in pairs in the booth
Put a booth in a room and two professionals staff it, trading places in short bursts. Neither sits there alone through a full day.
Equipment supplied and checked
Everything comes out of our own store, and all of it is rigged and sound-checked while the room is still empty. No rental to organise on your side.
Travel on us
We carry the mileage across the sixteen communes we cover, from Bettembourg to Walferdange and from Sanem to Mersch.
Confidentiality
Mock-ups, pricing, clauses not yet settled: our interpreters sign the same undertaking as our translators, and briefing material is wiped once the day is done.
A quote with no annex
One page carries the lot: fee, kit, technician, set-up, travel. Nothing surfaces afterwards that was not already there.
Frequently asked questions
Eight people at a table: what equipment?
None. Liaison interpreting fits: the interpreter joins the circle and renders in small stretches. Moving to a booth or a portable system becomes necessary beyond about fifteen people, or when the day runs without a pause.
Why two interpreters in the booth?
Because the exercise burns a kind of attention that barely lasts half an hour. The two take turns, and whoever is off the microphone notes figures and proper names for the colleague. Alone, a professional covers a short address, not a full day of programme.
Should we hire the booth ourselves?
We advise against it. Booth, control desk, microphones and receivers come with us, rigging happens the day before and testing before the audience arrives. One quote, one person responsible, and no back and forth if the sound weakens mid-session.
What do you need in order to prepare?
The programme, the slides if any exist, the name and role of each speaker, and your internal glossary. It is the in-house abbreviations and the product names that stop an interpreter, far more than the technical depth of the subject. Nothing leaves the team, and everything is destroyed afterwards.
Can a factory visit be covered?
Yes, with a portable system: the interpreter carries the transmitter, the visitors carry receivers, and the tour keeps moving. Tell us what protective equipment your site requires and the interpreter will turn up kitted out like the rest of the group.
Get your free quote within the hour
A document or a date is all we need. You get the price, the deadline and the form of certification Luxembourg authorities will expect. You decide afterwards.