The NOTIS Legal Division invites you to join:
Enhancing Interpreting Skills with AI
Presented by Édgar Hidalgo García
Workshop Overview: This course is designed to equip court interpreters with practical skills to enhance their simultaneous, consecutive, and sight translation techniques. Using AI tools like ChatGPT, participants will learn to create custom exercises tailored to their needs, improving speed, accuracy, and fluency when interpreting in a variety of contexts.
Objectives:
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Learn how to develop customized interpreting exercises using AI tools.
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Improve speed and accuracy in simultaneous, consecutive, and sight translation through AI produced practices.
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Creation of glossaries for assignments.
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How to use AI tools in real life interpreting scenarios.
Course Outline:
I. Introduction to AI Tools for Interpreters (0.5 hours)
II. Developing Simultaneous Interpreting Exercises (0.5 hours)
III. Creating Consecutive Interpreting Practice (0.5 hours)
IV. Sight Translation and Terminology Building (0.5 hours)
V. Customizing Exercises and Practical Application (1.0 hours)
When:
Saturday, November 8, 2025, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. PST. Check-in at 8:50 a.m.
Where: 
You will receive reminder emails with log-on instructions three days before and again the day before the event. If you don’t receive a reminder, please email info@notisnet.org or text 425-615-6741.
Cost:
$55 for NOTIS members, $98 for nonmembers (Click to Join NOTIS)
Requirements:
Before you register, make sure that your online setup meets the equipment and connectivity requirements. Please read these Requirements before proceeding with your registration.
CE Credits:
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Credits Requested |
Approval Status |
| WA AOC |
3 general |
Pending |
| OJD |
3 general |
Approved |
| ATA |
3 credits (Category A) |
Approved |
| CA CIMCE |
3 hours |
Approved (CIMCE#:L7883) |
Credit status will be updated upon approval.
Agency Codes:
WA AOC - Washington Administrative Office of the Courts
OJD - Oregon Judicial Department
ATA - American Translators Association
WA DSHS - Washington Dept. of Social and Human Services
CA CIMCE - California Court Interpreter Minimum Continuing Education Credit
CCHI - Certification Commission for Healthcare Interpreters
IMIA/NBCMI - International Medical Interpreters Association/The National Board of Certification of Medical Interpreters
NOTIS will not be responsible for refunds in the event of unapproved continuing credits by the entities listed above.
Who is teaching?
Édgar Hidalgo García is an interpreter, translator, educator, and public speaker with over twenty years of experience in legal, medical, immigration, education, and community interpreting. He is best known as the Director and Lead Instructor of TransInterpreting, the online school he founded and directed for nearly a decade, where he designed training programs and continuing education courses that have prepared hundreds of interpreters across the United States. He has held key leadership and academic roles, including Academic Coordinator of California State University, Fullerton’s Legal Interpretation Program and instructor in the Court Interpreter Training Program at UC Riverside. In these roles, he developed curricula, supervised instructor training, created specialized courses in simultaneous, consecutive, and sight translation, and ensured compliance with California’s judicial interpreter certification standards.
Certificates of Attendance will be awarded to all who arrive on time and stay for the entire workshop. Please allow yourself enough time to log on and sign in before the webshop begins. While latecomers are welcome to stay for the educational value of the webshop, we will not provide CE credit if you arrive late, for any reason.
No refunds can be given after five days prior to the workshop date. A $15 processing fee will apply for refunds requested before the date. Contact NOTIS for cancellation. Transfer of credits to another workshop is not allowed. No refunds will be given for reasons unrelated to this content, such as unstable internet connection, issues with the third party applications, not receiving reminders, or problems with system requirements.
Be sure to read System Requirements for Zoom.
NOTE: This workshop will be recorded, and the recording will be available for registrants to view for one month after the workshop date.
Questions about registration?
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