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Old 04-15-2008, 04:15 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by MikeWaters View Post
I think you are your friend are misinformed. The conference talks are translated in advance of the broadcast, not on the fly. I actually know someone who is a translator/broadcaster.

So it would simply be a matter of translating the spanish talk to English, and then distributing the English talks to the other translators.
Not all talks stick to the script, so the translators still have to be able to do real-time translation. This was told to me by a guy in my branch that did English to Bislama translation in the past for General Conference.
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