Live interpreter app

This item appears on page 82 of the March 2011 issue.

Language Services Associates has an iPhone/Android app, INTERPRETALK® Mobile, which allows users to connect to a live interpreter, for any of 15 languages, in less than 30 seconds.

Using your smartphone anywhere you have cell phone and Internet service, download the free app from the iPhone App Store or Android Market, enter your contact and credit card billing information, request an interpreter from the language list and click on the “connect” button. While the interpreter is on the line, you are charged $2.89 per minute.

Support is currently available in Arabic, Cantonese, Czech, French, Hindi, Korean, Mandarin, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Somali, Spanish, Urdu and Vietnamese.