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What is wire monitoring?

A task related to, but different from, transcription/translation is wire monitoring. Wire monitoring is, like transcription/translation of recorded evidence, a hybrid skill involving elements of both translation and interpreting. The monitoring process, like transcription/translation, may be summarized under two underlying skill-sets: the listening comprehension skills of the interpreter and the written expression skills of the translator. However, one major difference is that monitors are required to extract and summarize what is pertinent from a given conversation.

Unlike the wire monitor, document translators, interpreters and forensic transcribers/ translators are not required to spot the significant but, instead, are required to render the source conversation or document in its entirety.

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