interpreting by phone

[DaveAgain]

I watched an athlete interview earlier where the language barrier between the russian-athlete and british-interviewer was bridged by an interpreter on a mobile phone.

When I first saw the journalist holding the phone I thought they were going to be relying on a voice recognition app for the translation, glad to know people can still compete with AI

The interview took place in Thailand.

[leosmith]

I watched an athlete interview earlier where the language barrier between the russian-athlete and british-interviewer was bridged by an interpreter on a mobile phone.

When I first saw the journalist holding the phone I thought they were going to be relying on a voice recognition app for the translation, glad to know people can still compete with AI

The interview took place in Thailand.

That was interesting! UFC interviews are a lot of fun to watch; good language practice for me. Portuguese and Russian are the most common languages, but Spanish and Mandarin also occur.

[DaveAgain]

:lol: That was interesting! UFC interviews are a lot of fun to watch; good language practice for me. Portuguese and Russian are the most common languages, but Spanish and Mandarin also occur.

In the post fight press conference the journalists tried to get her opponent Smilla Sundell to speak some Thai, it didn't go so great.

[leosmith]

In the post fight press conference the journalists tried to get her opponent Smilla Sundell to speak some Thai, it didn't go so great.

Lol, those were some really bad instructions from that interviewer. Yeah, I forgot Thai - in addition to the languages I listed above, I've seen Thai, Japanese and Tagalog interviews on ONE.