Working as an Interpreter in a Liberty Conference
Consecutive Interpretation
To perform consecutive interpretation, the interpreter must join the conference as a regular participant.
No additional steps or extra configuration are required. The interpreter must perform the interpretation, as directed by the courtroom staff.
Simultaneous Interpretation
To perform simultaneous interpretation, the interpreter must join the conference as a regular participant and then be assigned as an interpreter by the conference manager. Once assigned as an interpreter, additional controls will automatically be added onto the interpreter's user interface, as seen in the screen captures below.
When the court assigns the interpreter functions to a participant, the Courtroom and Client buttons will appear on the interpreter's user interface. These controls determine where the simultaneous interpretation audio (spoken by the interpreter) will be sent.
Click the Courtroom control to send your audio into the courtroom and to all participants in the conference. Both the courtroom and all of the conference participants will hear your audio. In this mode, the Courtroom control will appear in pink.
Click the Clients control to only send your audio to those participants who have chosen to listen to the simultaneous interpretation. In this mode, the Clients control will appear in green.
Non-Interpreter Participants
For conference participants who are not interpreters, they will see two new controls on their application interface, as circled in the screen capture below. Participants who want to listen to the simultaneous interpretation must check the Listen to Interpretation checkbox and then control the balance of the audio using the Balance control. Moving the Balance to the right will cause more audio from the interpreter to be heard, while reducing the courtroom audio. Moving the balance to the left will cause more of the courtroom audio to be heard, while reducing the interpreter audio.
Participants not wanting to listen to the simultaneous interpretation should ignore these additional controls.