AI CERTIFICATE

AI for Translators & Interpreters: Prompt Engineering, Tools, Apps & AI Agents (V Ed.)

Certificate in AI for Translators and Interpreters

The Translator's Job Description Is Being Rewritten. Are You Holding the Pen?

The language industry reached an estimated $72.6 billion in 2025 (Nimdzi Insights), and the way that value gets created has fundamentally shifted. In Slator's 2025 survey, 60% of all respondents reported using machine translation, rising to 80% among LSPs, while 72% said they were weighing new AI investments (Slator). AI is no longer the thing coming to your desk. It is probably already on it. The question is whether you are directing AI or being directed by it.

Why "Knowing the Tools" Is No Longer Enough

Here is the tension nobody talks about honestly: adoption raced ahead, but trust lagged behind. That same 2025 research flagged accuracy concerns at 72% and quality concerns at 68% (Slator). This is exactly where trained linguists win. The professionals who thrive are the ones who select their tools carefully, engineer prompts for consistency, evaluate output critically, and design workflows where AI does the heavy lifting and human judgment guards the quality.

From Curious User to Confident Architect

This certificate takes you from writing better prompts to orchestrating tools and AI agents. You will move through practical prompt engineering, hands-on training in the transcription, video creation, QA, and copywriting tools reshaping our field, and finish by exploring AI agents. Every session is built around real translator and interpreter workflows. You will not simply learn how to use AI. You will learn to design how AI works for you.

If you are ready to lead in the era of AI-assisted language work rather than react to it, this is your starting point.


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  • This course includes:
  • Expert coach:
    Ekaterina Chashnikova, training and evaluation of generative AI tools since 2023.
    Teaching AI for translators and medical translation since 2015.
  •  Live activities
  •  Life access to contents 
  •   Downloadable course program
  • In English
  •  Completion certificate
  •  Money back guarantee
  • Learn how to use AI in various translation and localization scenarios
  • Duration: 10 h approx.
  • When:  23-27 November 2026 (18.00 CET)

AI for Translators & Interpreters: Prompt Engineering, Tools, Apps & AI Agents

AI Translation Certificate for translators and interpreters: prompting,
AI tools, transcription, video, QA and AI agents

Session Breakdown

1 Session

Intro + Prompting

2 hours

  • ▸ Basic techniques
  • ▸ Mid-advanced prompt engineering for consistent high quality
  • ▸ Evaluation and refinement
2 Session

AI Tools

2 hours

  • ▸ Sonix and TurboScribe for transcription
  • ▸ Descript for video and podcast editing
  • ▸ HeyGen for video generation
3 Session

AI Tools

2 hours

  • ▸ Cavya.ai for document analysis and QA
  • ▸ Copy.ai for workflows
4 Session

AI Tools

2 hours

  • ▸ Grammarly and Rytr for copywriting
  • ▸ WriteSonic for SEO and copywriting
5 Session

Introduction to AI Agents

2 hours

  • ▸ Intro
  • ▸ Agent vs. chat: how to choose the right mode?
  • ▸ Types of agents and agentic structures
  • ▸ Practical demo: building an ecosystem in Claude Cowork

Course Description

Certificate in AI for Translators and Interpreters

What Is This Course About

Behind all the hype and the doom-scrolling about AI, practical tools are quietly changing how language work gets done. Specialized solutions have matured across the exact tasks translators and interpreters handle every day:

  • ▸ Prompt engineering for consistent, high-quality output
  • ▸ Transcription and subtitling
  • ▸ Video generation and editing
  • ▸ Document analysis and QA
  • ▸ Multilingual copywriting and SEO
  • ▸ Agentic workflows that connect it all

What You Will Learn

In this certificate, you will learn how each of these tools works and how to select the right tool for your own projects. Across five hands-on sessions you will build a real prompting foundation, get practical with tools like Sonix, TurboScribe, Descript, HeyGen, Cavya.ai, Copy.ai, Grammarly, Rytr, and WriteSonic, and then step into the frontier: designing your own ecosystem of AI agents inside Claude Cowork.

Course Format

Five live sessions (10 hours total, 2 hours per day), built around real translator and interpreter workflows. Every session is hands-on, with live demos and a worksheet so you can practice on your own, including with the recorded sessions.

Your Coach

Ekaterina is an experienced translator and AI enthusiast. She has been working as an AI evaluator and trainer since July 2023 and now handles bilingual multiformat content creation for her knowledge hub mymedpharm.info with a team of AI agents.

This is a mid-level program with real momentum. If this is your first course on AI in translation and localization, you may want to start with the free AI prompting course to get comfortable with the basics and get the most out of every session here.

Who Is This For

This certificate is built for language professionals ready to work with AI deliberately, not occasionally.

🌍

Freelance Translators and Interpreters

Professionals who want to work with AI deliberately, not occasionally, and keep leading their own workflows.

📁

Localization and Project Managers

Managers who need to design AI-assisted workflows, evaluate output critically and scale quality across projects.

🎬

Subtitlers and Audiovisual Specialists

AV professionals ready to master transcription, subtitling, video editing and generation tools.

✍️

Multilingual Copywriters and Transcreators

Content professionals who want to apply AI to copywriting, SEO and multilingual content creation.

🚀

Curious Linguists and Career-Switchers

Linguists exploring the AI era who want to build a practical, future-proof skillset from the ground up.

If your work touches language, you belong here. No coding background is required.

What You Will Learn

✓

Engineer prompts for consistent, high-quality output

✓

Evaluate and refine AI output with critical judgment

✓

Transcribe audio with Sonix and TurboScribe

✓

Edit video and podcasts with Descript

✓

Generate videos with HeyGen

✓

Analyze documents and run QA with Cavya.ai

✓

Build automated workflows with Copy.ai

✓

Write and optimize copy with Grammarly, Rytr and WriteSonic

✓

Understand agents vs. chat and choose the right mode

✓

Design your own ecosystem of AI agents in Claude Cowork

✓

Select the right AI tool for each translation and interpretation task

✓

Design workflows where AI does the heavy lifting and human judgment guards the quality

Requirements & Setup

Before You Start

This course assumes you have at least a basic understanding of generative AI, large language models, and prompting.

Tools to Set Up

  • ▸ Set up free accounts or free trials in the tools you want to use during live demos, to practice alongside Ekaterina: Sonix, TurboScribe, Descript, HeyGen, Cavya.ai, Copy.ai, Grammarly, Rytr and WriteSonic
  • ▸ A computer with internet access for the live sessions
  • ▸ You will be provided with a worksheet to practice on your own, including with the recorded sessions

Tip: If you are new to AI, you are welcome to take our free on-demand introductory course "Basics of AI & AI Prompting for Language Professionals" before this one, to get comfortable with the basics and get the most out of every session.

Meet

Ekaterina Chashnikova

Ekaterina is a medical writer and a medical translator for the combination English-Russian.

At the 4th year of pharmacy school, she started translating medical publications and fell in love with translation. She later studied linguistics and translation in a 2-year university program for specialized translators.

She worked as a project manager in translation agencies and became a freelancer by the end of 2010.

As freelance translator and auditor, she supported approvals and launches of drug products and medical devices for pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers. She currently works as a medical writer and content creator (CME/CE and publications) in a contract research organization.

Ekaterina moderated a medical writing track at a ChatGPT hackathon in April 2023 and continues to explore practical uses of LLMs in translation and localization. She has been working as trainer and evaluator of generative AI tools since July 2023.

Over the years, she spoke at translation conferences and kept a blog about medical and pharmaceutical translation. She continues sharing her knowledge and expertise on mymedpharm.info, a hub of internet resources and knowledge, using a team of AI agents.
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