US Attorney working with ALS in Los Angeles

ALS has contracted with governmental clients for many years and has worked with several different sects of the US Attorney’s Office. For the past several months, the LA Criminal division of the US Attorney’s Office has contracted with ALS to assist them with transcription and translation projects in Armenian, Cambodian, Vietnamese and English for an ongoing criminal case. 

In May, the US Attorney’s Office contacted ALS to provide transcription services from English to English and Armenian to English for the same ongoing case. For this particular project, ALS was given 2 hours of audio in CD format. A majority of the audio was in English, but also had a substantial amount of Armenian language mixed in on the audio files. Once the project was formally approved by the client, ALS’s Operations team sourced the English audio to our best English typists and sourced the Armenian portions to our best Armenian typists who have partnered with ALS for years to provide excellent transcription, translation and interpreting services. Our typists used transcription equipment to assist them with accuracy and efficiency during the course of the project and both English and Armenian to English transcripts were delivered to the client on-time. 

The US Attorney Office continues to contract with ALS regarding their language needs for this particular criminal case as well as their other translation and transcription needs.

ALS assists Hewlett-Packard with Conference Interpreting and Equipment Needs

May was a busy month for large scale conferences and Hewett Packard was one of the many companies that came to ALS to assist them with their conference interpreting and equipment needs. 

The Hewett Packard Discover 2011 Conference was a 3 day event starting on 6/5/11 and ending on 6/7/11. Interpreting in 3 different languages was requested, included Mandarin, Korean and Japanese. The event was held at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, NV and according to the HP website, it was held as a new Enterprise Business event for all alumni of HP Software Universe, HP Technology Forum and HP Technology@Work. The event allowed its participants to experience HP’s entire portfolio products, solutions and services and many of HP’s high profile members were in attendance. The event included online content, select breakdown sessions, demos, exhibitors, streaming video, track keynotes plus post-event activities as well.  ALS scheduled 2 interpreters per language per day for the event and scheduled linguists with technology expertise to better assist the participants. 

ALS also assisted HP in equipment rental for the event which included portable transmitters for each interpreter and headset & receiver sets for each of the participants requiring interpreting services. Before the event, our interpreting department scheduled the interpreters several weeks in advance and provided the speakers with all pertinent information to successfully interpret for the assignment at hand. The client was sent all confirmation materials and all equipment was quality checked before leaving our facilities. The event was a successful one and ALS looks forward to working with this client for all their future language and equipment needs.