Judith Platter (Mag. Dr. phil.) is senior lecturer at the Centre for Translation Studies of the University of Vienna where she teaches speech-to-text interpreting (STTI), plain and easy language, audiodescription and specialized translation at BA and MA level. She also teaches STTI at the University of Graz and at the Postgraduate Centre of the University of Vienna, where she was in charge of three academic post-graduate STTI training courses. She holds an MA in Interpreting Studies and a PhD in Transcultural Communication from the University of Vienna. In her PhD thesis she examined the professionalization of STTI in Austria. She is part of the Vienna Interpreting Research Group. Her main research interests include interpreting/translation didactics, accessibility and translation, intermodality/intermediality in translation as well as professionalization. Judith Platter has been a freelance translator and interpreter since 2003 and her working languages are German, Italian, English and French. She is a trained and certified speech-to-text interpreter herself and founding member as well as current chair of the Austrian Speech-to-Text Interpreters’ Association OESDV, representing professional interests at national and international level, amongst other within FIT. In 2022, she was head of the organization committee of the 6th European Conference of Speech-to-Text Interpreters, ECOSVienna 2022.
