Live human interpreters · Dhaka
Your buyer speaks Korean. Your surgeon speaks Bangla. Your auditor speaks Mandarin and your notary speaks neither. We put a trained human in the middle — in the room, on the call, or in the booth.
Seven ways to be understood
Most people ask for "an interpreter." What they actually need depends on how many listeners there are, whether the meeting can afford to run at half speed, and whether anyone is wearing a headset. Here is the honest version of each.
Three to five seconds behind, delivered into headsets from a booth or a portable transmitter. The meeting runs at full speed and nobody waits.
The speaker stops every one to three minutes; the interpreter delivers from notes. Plan for the meeting to take roughly twice as long — and to be twice as precise.
The interpreter sits beside your guest and whispers the meeting as it happens. Simultaneous speed without a single piece of equipment in the room.
Airport pickup, factory floor, showroom, hospital corridor, dinner. Both directions, informal register, and enough sector knowledge to know what a PP meeting or an OT slot is.
You dial, we bridge an interpreter in, and the call proceeds consecutively. No travel time, no half-day minimum, billed in blocks.
Zoom, Teams or Google Meet — consecutively as a participant, or simultaneously on a separate language channel where the platform supports it.
Where your programme carries an accessibility commitment for persons with disabilities (PwD), sign language is the measure that reaches deaf and hard-of-hearing attendees. BdSL interpreters for ceremonies, government programmes, training, televised events and donor-funded activities. Platform position, lighting and sightlines get planned in advance — we will tell you where the interpreter needs to stand.
Booth brief
Four questions. You get the mode we would actually recommend, how many interpreters it takes, what goes in the room, and an indicative price — before you speak to anybody.
How the number is built
Interpretation is priced on time, not words. Below is how we build a quote, so nothing on the invoice is a surprise.
| Mode | Half day 4 hrs | Full day 8 hrs | Team |
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Corporate accounts are invoiced with 50% on confirmation and the balance within 7 days of the assignment. One-off bookings are settled in advance by bKash, Nagad, bank transfer or card. Cancellation inside 48 hours is charged at half the booked value — the interpreter has already turned other work down.
Where we work
A fluent speaker who has never stood on a knitting floor will translate "GSM" as a phone network. We staff by sector first, language second.
Buyer visits, PP and fit meetings, line walks, price negotiations and social or technical audits. Interpreters who already know what a lab dip, a shade band and a CAP are, in Mandarin, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Turkish and Spanish.
Chinese, Korean, Japanese and German engineers installing lines, training operators and handing over manuals. Long assignments, technical registers, and interpreters who stay for the whole install rather than the first morning.
Consultations in Dhaka hospitals, and support for patients heading to India, Thailand, Singapore or Türkiye — pre-departure briefings, doctor calls, discharge summaries read back in plain Bangla to the family.
Statements, affidavits sworn before a notary, contract signings, arbitration sittings and inheritance matters. Faithful rendering only — the interpreter never advises, summarises or answers on your behalf.
Visa interviews, biometric appointments, application-centre visits and pre-interview practice, coordinated with THB Visa Services when the file and the interpreter should come from the same desk.
Donor missions, multi-day workshops, field visits and board sittings for NGOs and development partners. Booths, receivers and a technician if you need them; a rapporteur summary afterwards if you ask.
Delegation programmes, MoU signings, courtesy calls and protocol events. Discreet, briefed on titles and forms of address, and comfortable working to a fixed order of proceedings.
Arabic-speaking escorts for Umrah and Hajj groups, plus tour and delegation escorts arranged with THB Go! so the interpreter, the visa and the itinerary sit in one file.
The roster
Everything below runs against Bangla or English. If a pair has no direct interpreter in Bangladesh — Bangla to Amharic, say — we relay through a pivot language and tell you plainly that we are doing it.
No match on the roster. Ask the desk — we place rare pairs through partner networks regularly.
Equipment
Rented with a technician who stays for the session, tests every receiver before doors open, and hands them out and collects them back so your team doesn't have to.
A pocket transmitter for the interpreter and lightweight receivers for listeners. Works while walking — the reason it is the standard for factory floors and site visits.
Sets of 25 · additional receivers by the unit · charging case included
A sound-isolated tabletop or full booth with console, headsets and a clear line of sight to the stage. Required for anything long enough that the interpreters need to rotate.
1–2 booths · 2 consoles per booth · installed the evening before
Delegate microphones, chairman unit, speakers and a mixer, patched to the interpreter feed so the booth hears the room clearly rather than through it.
Wired or wireless mics · press-to-talk delegate units · lectern mic
Configuration and a dry run of language channels on Zoom or Teams, with a backup audio bridge in case a channel drops mid-session.
Platform check · rehearsal call · standby technician on the day
Countdown to the room
Interpreters do not read minds; they read your material. The preparation window is where the quality actually comes from.
Date, times, venue, language pair, who is in the room and what they intend to achieve. We confirm mode, team size and rate in writing and hold the slot.
Send agendas, decks, contracts, product specs, prior minutes, names and job titles. The interpreter studies them under NDA and returns a term list for you to correct — your house terms win over the dictionary.
For simultaneous or remote work: equipment installed and tested, or the platform channels rehearsed on a dry-run call. For on-site work: route, gate pass and PPE confirmed.
The interpreter arrives 30 minutes early, meets both sides, and agrees signals for "slow down" and "repeat that." Your coordinator is reachable on WhatsApp throughout.
Term list and any noted action points sent to you. Working files are deleted on request. If the assignment continues, the same interpreter continues with it wherever possible.
The rules our interpreters work under
Every interpreter placed by THB signs the same code before an assignment is confirmed. You can ask for a copy.
Before you ask
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