Remote interpreting
video call or telephone
Supplier catch-ups every Monday, a consultation, sixty minutes of recruitment interview: none of that warrants sending a professional across the province. Instead, the interpreter signs into your Teams, Zoom or Meet session, or picks up the phone.
1 h
Minimum booking
48 h
Usual notice
0
Travel expenses
70+
Languages available
The formats we cover remotely
Two options: the interpreter joins your online meeting, or connects you through a three-way call.
Video conferencing
The interpreter opens the link you send, on Teams, Zoom, Google Meet or Webex, and works in liaison or simultaneous mode depending on what the tool allows.
Telephone connection
A three-way call, useful when understanding has to be immediate and nothing could be arranged in advance.
One-to-one interviews
Job interviews, appraisals, meetings with a social worker or a doctor. Sessions that run under an hour, where travelling would outweigh the interpreting itself.
Recurring meetings
Project reviews with a supplier, steering committees, assessments run between teams spread across several countries.
Rare languages
Since physical attendance is not required, the pool covers the whole of Belgium and often reaches other countries.
Unforeseen situations
A patient arriving alone without the language, an administrative formality grinding to a halt: we look for a connection straight away.
Everything hinges on the sound
A laptop's built-in microphone, a room that echoes, participants talking over one another: in those conditions no interpreter, however good, will render the exchange properly.
That is why we put ten minutes of technical checking on the table beforehand, at no charge. The interpreter then opens the session with two ground rules: nobody talks over anybody, and each idea ends with a short pause.
With those conditions met, a video call serves as well as being in the room for an interview or a working meeting, without the journey or the half-day blocked out.
- Technical test at no cost
- Teams, Zoom, Meet, Webex
- Billing from one hour onwards
- No travel expenses
What a video call allows and what it does not replace
It deserves to be spelled out: some situations are simply not suited to a screen.
Short formats
Sixty minutes on a screen represent a small share of what half a day in the room would come to once travel is counted.
Easier to schedule
An hour with no journey attached slots into a diary far more readily than a full half-day.
Difficult combinations
For a language with few speakers available, this is often the only workable route at short notice.
Less suited to decisive moments
Hearing in Nivelles, signature at the notary's, tense negotiation: being in the room keeps the advantage, since gesture and gaze are part of what gets across.
The sound governs everything else. With a built-in microphone, a room that echoes and participants talking across each other, the rendering stays approximate even with an excellent interpreter. Ten minutes of technical checking clears up most of the problem.
Four steps, and 48 hours is enough
Setting up a remote session takes far less time than organising a journey.
- 01
You book a slot
Give the date, the time, the expected duration, the languages and the tool in use. The first hour is indivisible, after which counting runs in half-hours.
- 02
Ten minutes of testing
If you wish, we check the link, the sound and screen sharing the day before. Ten minutes well spent.
- 03
The interpreter joins
Five minutes before the start the interpreter enters the virtual room, introduces themselves and explains how the floor will be shared.
- 04
Counting the actual time
A session that stops early remains due up to the minimum. A session that overruns follows the pro rata announced.
Is a multilingual video call on the calendar?
Send us the time and the language. Two days' notice covers most language pairs.
Our guarantees at a distance
From one hour onwards
No half-day package: billing follows the time genuinely spent.
Every platform
Teams, Zoom, Meet and Webex are covered. Interpretation channels are put to use wherever they exist.
Technical test at no cost
Sound levels, meeting link and speaking permissions get tested beforehand, instead of being discovered live while your counterparts watch.
A wider pool
The interpreter may live anywhere in the country, which opens up pairs that are hard to cover on site.
The same confidentiality
Confidentiality undertakings apply online too. The interpreter works alone, headset on, and nothing is recorded.
No add-on charges
Nothing is added to the hourly rate: no mileage, no equipment hire, no travel allowance.
Frequently asked questions
Can I book half an hour?
The first hour is indivisible: the interpreter blocks the slot, prepares the subject and connects in advance. After that, counting runs in half-hours, so a meeting of an hour and forty minutes does not cost two hours.
What if the connection drops?
The interpreter reconnects at once and alerts you through the agreed channel. If the break comes from our side and prevents the session from continuing, it is not billed. The preliminary test exists precisely for that.
Does simultaneous work over a video link?
Teams and Zoom allow it: each participant picks the language they listen to. On other tools the session runs in liaison mode, with everyone speaking in turn and the interpreter rendering between contributions.
Do you handle meetings spanning several countries?
Every day. Many sessions bring together a site in Walloon Brabant, a parent company outside Europe and partners in two or three countries. French, English and a third language then circulate in the same meeting: the number of interpreters is set on the pairs genuinely in use, not on the list of nationalities connected.
And what about a hospital appointment?
For a follow-up, passing on information or explaining a treatment, the format works. For announcing a diagnosis or collecting consent we recommend being in the room: at those moments gaze and silence weigh as much as the sentences.
Get your free quote within the hour
Send us your document or your date: firm price, precise deadline, no obligation. You then decide, with everything in front of you.