Resource Library

Nothing beats learning on the go for busy freelancers.

Enter HelloAudio, our favorite tool to create a private podcast in minutes. It's as simple as uploading audio or video, adding a short description, and clicking "publish" or "schedule."

We use HelloAudio for our summits, courses, challenges and monthly insiders webinars. Because learning on the go should be fun and easy!

With the power of Loopback, it's easy to send audio from one app to another.

Loopback can combine audio from applications and audio input devices, then make it available anywhere on your Mac.

With an easy-to-understand interface, Loopback gives you the power of a high-end studio mixing board, right inside your computer!

Wish you could crop stuff in the background out of the shot for online meetings?

Looking to crop your webcam so it only captures your green screen?

You can.

Learn to use OBS to look smart on camera in our blog post and video!

Looking to record high-res interviews or podcasts - even from low-res locations?

Enter Riverside.fm, a powerful web-based tool for capturing high-quality audio and video.

Riverside.fm is an easy way to record podcasts and videos in studio quality from anywhere. All from your browser.

Ever asked to transcribe podcasts, interviews or a Zoom meeting? Want to add subtitles to a video for social media and accessibility?

It can be a real slog! But it doesn’t have to be - with Sonix!

We use our favorite semi-automatic subtitling tool, Sonix.ai, to automatically generate captions, then manually edit and review them.

If you’re a techforword insider, you can learn more about Sonix in our techforword insiders webinar.

As a freelancer, it pays to look professional - whether you’re having an online meeting with a client, interpreting from home or collaborating with others on your volunteering activities.

So how do we set up our home office to win over clients?

Check out this column and video to discover tips for looking and sounding great on video calls and discover the portable green screen that will have you looking like a pro in no time.

VB-Audio Cable is a FREE audio routing tool for Windows and Mac.

Simply set it up on your computer and start transcribing, captioning or interpreting simultaneously as you read!

Have you ever known you had a term in one of your glossaries, but couldn't find it quickly enough?

With glossary management tools like interplex, you can:

• Create and edit glossaries with interplex

• Import term lists from Word and Excel

• Quickly search across one or more glossaries

• Look up terms from your iPad or iPhone

Special discount: 20% off with discount code techforword2022

InterpretBank is an AI-based terminology management tool for interpreters.

With InterpretBank, you can:

• Prepare specialized assignments

• Manage and create better glossaries in less time

• Access your data on your Windows/macOS computer and on any mobile device

• Share glossaries with colleagues!

Take 20% off your InterpretBank perpetual license or monthly subscription!

Interpreters’ Help will help you create, edit, build, and manage glossaries for every interpreting assignment.

Some of my favorite features are the intuitive design, best-in-market collaboration, offline Boothmate app for PC, Mac and iPad, and of course, the Glossary Farm, which allows you to search for and modify glossaries built and shared by the interpreting community. (And share your own, of course!)

Take a whopping 25% off Interpreters’ Help with discount code techforword - or use the link below to access the very generous free tier.

If you work with legal or EU-related texts, you need Juremy!

You can search official terminology in all 24 official EU languages, and display terms and concordances in bilingual view.

It’s perfect for finding reliable translations in a flash!

Use the coupon code EUTERMS25 at checkout and receive 25% OFF your first subscription payment, either monthly or annual.

SketchEngine is our hands-down favorite tool to extract single and multi-word terms from documents in no time flat!

Simply head to the OneClick Terms extractor, upload your document (in over two dozen languages), and let the magic begin!

ChatGPT can be a powerful translation tool. But it has its downsides.

Like knowing how to write good prompts, and keep track of them all. Picking the right version of ChatGPT to keep client data safe. Or all that copying and pasting from one window to another.

Imagine a CAT tool that seamlessly integrates AI while protecting confidentiality.

That’s Wordscope.

Some CAT tools have tacked on an AI integration. 😕

But...imagine a tool that was built with AI in mind.

One that uses AI to:

✅ Automatically incorporate your glossaries, TMs and MT output into translations

✅ Flag inconsistent terminology, awkward phrasing, or inaccurate translations

✅ Spellcheck, proofread, suggest alternatives, and fix tags

All while learning your style on the fly and keeping confidential data safe.

That’s Bureau Works.

Get your FREE 14-day trial, then 30% off your first 3 months subscription

Want to add images to a glossary, plus track all of your assignments and payments from a single app?

Looking for a multi-faceted database tool that can be tailored to your needs?

Airtable may be the tool for you!

In our insiders webinar with Airtable expert Conor Martin, you’ll learn to:

• Set up a glossary with Airtable

• Add images to your glossary

• Share glossaries and build collaborative glossaries

• Use tags to organize and create assignment-specific glossaries

• Track assignments and payments

Prefer writing by hand over typing?

Always find yourself taking notes in meetings?

Finally ready to move into the digital age?

Nebo combines the power of handwriting and paperless workflows in over 60 languages. And it runs on iPad, Android, Windows and even Chromebooks!

Read our post and check out our webinar to discover this great handwriting recognition app!

Notion is your one-stop shop for organizing EVERYTHING.

Use Notion to:

• create fact sheets

• build and search glossaries

• log practice sessions

• manage your client relations in a breeze

Have you ever jotted down a task, then lost the slip of paper it was on?

Emailed yourself a reminder, then lost track of it in your overflowing inbox?

If you lie awake at night trying to remember everything on your plate, it’s time to take your to-do list digital with Todoist!

• Add tasks the easy way

• Organize tasks and projects

• See your to-dos as a list, board or calendar

• Filter and sort your tasks based on priority, deadline, and more!

Get 2 months free on your Todoist Pro subscription using the link below - AND we’ll give you free access to our insiders webinar, Tech tips to tackle your to-do list!

Unsure how much to charge for an assignment?

Feel like projects take longer than planned?

Afraid you’re wasting time?

Time-tracking tools to the rescue!

Introducing Toggl, our favorite free tool to track your time and boost productivity.

It’s ideal to:

Track how long you work on each project

Use time-tracking data to charge profitable rates

Plan work time and breaks to avoid overwhelm

Check out Toggl for free, or learn more in our insiders webinar, Time-tracking and income planning for translators and ‘terps!

Wondering how we create those fancy xl8.link and tfw.rocks short links you see everywhere?

We created our own branded link shortener with Bl.ink, which offers dynamic links that reroute based on user language, country, operating system, time of day, and tons more.

(Sure, it’s geeky, but it’s also incredibly useful for creating easy-to-remember links!)

Need a banner for your website or LinkedIn profile, a marketing graphic for your social posts or a new logo?

You need Canva!

The feature-packed basic version is FREE. Or go Premium for the Brand Kit, Background Remover, a huge template library, and more.

Want to learn how to create a professional branded background for video calls in under 5 minutes using Canva?

Check out our blog post and free video tutorial!

At techforword, we’re all about pushing the boundaries of online teaching and learning. And that starts with community.

Enter Circle.so, the incredible platform where we host the insiders community, live rounds of techforword courses, and many of the interactive components of our summits.

Circle’s flexibility allows us to set up different spaces with tailored layouts - including a dynamic events calendar, FAQ, member directory, job postings spaces, and tons more.

We can pin important announcements, quickly add gorgeous cover images, send private individual and group messages, and tweak notification settings. And there’s even an iOS app to connect on the go!

We send all our techforword emails with ConvertKit, a powerful email tool which allows us to customize messages so you only get the ones of interest to you! 💌

It also includes all sorts of great geeky stuff: tagging, visual automations, rules, sequences, email templates, conditional content, and tons more!

Want to create a short video presentation? Record and edit speeches for interpreting practice or training courses? Use speech recognition to generate transcripts or subtitles in a flash?

Editing video is a ton of work. Professional tools are overwhelming...and the learning curve is pretty steep! Enter Descript!

Record video and edit it just like a text document. Cut false starts, remove long pauses, and get a polished result you can export as video, audio, transcript or subtitles!

If you’re an insider, check out the webinar replay and discover the tool I’ve used to edit every techforword course, video and challenge since late 2021.

LSP.expert is a one-stop project management tool for translators and interpreters.

Jobs, projects, clients, rates, quotes, invoices, expenses, time tracking, outsourcing, reporting, and more.

Streamline the administrative side of your business and focus on what you do best!

Email isn’t always the right tool for getting stuff done. 🤯

Looking for a streamlined way to communicate with members of your team or association? Slack might be just the tool for you.

Our team uses Slack every day. Channels and threads keep all our conversations about a given project or task nice and organized. Plus, we can tweak notifications to fit our needs. Hello productivity! 🤩

Need an evergreen social media manager?

Enter SocialBee.

We schedule all our social media posts with this one handy tool, which links Canva and our Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter accounts and lets us create and automatically post variations again and again!

Other geeky stuff: Hashtag libraries, categories, post and calendar views, bulk editor, re-queueing, analytics, and more!

Sleek, intuitive and highly customizable, Squarespace is a fast and easy way to design a professional-looking website.

With robust analytics, permissions, custom CSS, page duplication, built-in SEO tools, custom redirects, blog post scheduling and customizable URLs, Squarespace is our go-to tool for designing the website of your dreams! 🤩

We could not have run our Innovation in Translation and Innovation in Interpreting Summits without Summit in a Box!

This comprehensive training and resource kit provided templates, guidelines and hours of video tutorials that served as an excellent starting point for building successful summits of our own.

If you want to run an online summit with the hassle and save yourself hundreds of hours of time, you need Summit in A Box!

We host all techforword courses on Teachable.

Teachable offers a user-friendly interface, unlimited video hosting, lecture and course duplication, tracking of lecture completion, certificates, and single sign-on for Circle, our community platform.

Thrivecart is an awesome cart platform.

It offers coupons, installment plan, bumps, upsells, and robust affiliate tracking and links up with Stripe, PayPal, and many of our other tools, including Teachable.

Plus, our students can log in, access and update their invoices and billing information directly, which has saved us hundreds of support hours.

As you can see from this page, we use a TON of different tools to run techforword.

Zapier is the glue to automate all the pieces of an online business.

No-code automations, workflows, and tons more geeky stuff.

Zapier has automated thousands of tasks for techforword - and counting!

Even before the pandemic, Zoom was our go-to tool for virtual meetings and online webinars.

With polls, break-out rooms, and easy screen sharing (including from a smartphone or tablet), Zoom is our favorite tool for live online teaching.

Insiders, check out our short tutorial on interpreting with Zoom.

Looking to refresh or improve your consecutive note-taking skills?

Sophie Llewelyn Smith’s Consecutive Club is just for you! This membership site offers live guided practice sessions as well as tons of video tutorials, practice materials for long consecutive, and symbol ideas on the website.

And with the Flex option, you can join for as little as 15€ a month! (That’s 40% off!)

Just starting out as a translator, but don’t know where to begin?

Struggling to find clients and regular work?

Join the “Club de los Grandes Traductores” for monthly live trainings, mentorships, and a lively community for Spanish-speaking translators from across the globe, run by my friends Fernando and Ruth from Traducción Jurídica.