Several years have elapsed since Fantinuoli (2018) asserted that interpreting studies was experiencing a “technological turn”. The Covid 19 pandemic marked the beginning of the widespread use of remote interpreting and, since then, CAI tools and technology in general have assumed an increasingly important role in the interpreting profession. More recently, generative AI has penetrated most aspects of life and is totally revolutionising professional interpreting practice. More recently, Fantinuoli (2025) has suggested that in the short-term AI holds significant potential for enhancing the performance of interpreters. We could even assert that interpreters who do not know how to use AI will be less competitive on the interpreting market.

It is therefore axiomatic that these issues have to be incorporated into the training curriculum. Recent studies would suggest that there is, as yet, no generally established way of doing this and different methods seem to be used, if technology is taught at all. The pace of change is meteoric and teaching practices would seem to be lagging behind.  

This paper will offer an overview of the literature published to date on incorporating technology into interpreter training and will discuss student needs and the possible ways of incorporating remote interpreting, CAI tools and AI into the interpreting classroom. For example, should they be taught in a separate module or across-the-board issues, incorporated into every subject?

The results of a postgraduate interpreting student satisfaction survey on the teaching received with regard to remote simultaneous, CAI tools and AI will be presented and analysed. These results will feed into a practical didactic proposal for introducing technology into the interpreting curriculum.

By way of conclusion, we will discuss the problems of applying such a proposal in practice.

References

Fantinuoli,  C.  (2018):  “Interpreting  and  technology:  the  upcoming  technological turn”, in: Fantinuoli, C. (ed.). Interpreting and Technology. Berlin: Language Science Press, 1–12.

Fantinuoli, C. (2025) “The Technological Turn in Interpreting and Its Short-Term Implications”. Colloque international. Nouvelles approches didactiques de la traduction et de l’interprétation, Knowledge Commons, 26 January. doi: 10.17613/w2asp-c2t87.