Founded by linguists, built around them
SILA Linguists® provides interpreting, translation, transcription and language analysis across the UK, North America, Australia, New Zealand and beyond, with its own app for remote interpreting.
Our story
A company started by experienced linguists.
SILA Linguists® was set up by people who had worked as linguists and knew the industry from the inside. We wanted a company that uses current technology well and treats language professionals fairly, with fair pay and room to develop.
We believe that linguists who are treated well do better work for clients. That principle runs through how we recruit, how we work and how we build our tools.
What guides us
- Useful technology: tools that make interpreting and translation quicker to arrange and easier to use.
- Fair treatment of linguists: fair compensation, professional growth and a supportive network.
- Quality and security: accurate, culturally aware work and careful protection of the information you share with us.
Our technology
The SILA Linguists app and platform.
Our proprietary platform and the SILA Linguists app are at the centre of how we deliver our services: telephone and video interpreting, AI-assisted translation workflows with human post-editing, and secure transcription.
- End-to-end encrypted communication channels.
- An easy-to-use interface for clients and linguists.
- Scalable, cloud-based solutions for organisations of every size.
- Integration with major video-conferencing platforms, with tools to manage multilingual sessions and access.
- Continuous development and regular feature updates.
The story of our logo
A spindle and a single continuous thread.
Our logo shows a spindle. In the Taurus-Zagros region the spindle is known as "Kompau" or "Tashi/Toshi", names that, for us, connect the ideas of counting, summing up and working thread, and by extension of analysing words and language.
We read the spindle as a symbol of women's knowledge. In the Taurus-Zagros region, where the spindle has been part of daily life for thousands of years, it is seen as a symbol of women's knowledge in shaping language and creating new words. The word "computer" has a related history: Latin computare, to count or reckon together.
Spindles appear on ancient monuments from the region, such as Late Hittite funerary stelae from Marash and the Neo-Elamite relief known as "The Spinner" in the Louvre. A single thread drawn from the spindle runs through our whole identity, just as one team runs through every SILA Linguists® service. Select an image to enlarge it.
Detail of a Late Hittite style funerary stele, Marash. Credit: Tayfun Bilgin, Bora Bilgin, 2006 (hittitemonuments.com/maras). Late Hittite style funerary stele from Marash showing a woman holding a spindle. Credit: Tayfun Bilgin, Bora Bilgin, 2006 (hittitemonuments.com/maras). Basalt stele from Marash: a seated woman draws thread from a spindle beside a standing man holding a stylus and writing board. Credit: Tayfun Bilgin, Bora Bilgin, 2006 (hittitemonuments.com/maras). Fragment of the Neo-Elamite bas-relief known as "The Spinner", Louvre.
What SILA Linguists® does
Interpreting, translation, certified translation, transcription and language analysis across sectors.
SILA Linguists® provides interpreting of every type: face to face, by video, by telephone, conference, simultaneous and community interpreting. It also provides translation of every kind, including certified translation, localisation and AI-assisted translation with human post-editing; transcription and subtitling; and language analysis and nationality assessment.
Our vetted, trained and qualified linguists work in the legal sector, healthcare, immigration and asylum, police and justice, councils and the public sector, education, charities, financial services, insurance, engineering, energy, technology, fashion, travel and media. SILA Linguists® provides its services in more than 350 languages and dialects, in the UK, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and beyond.
Work with us
Our bookings team will confirm the details with you and arrange the right linguist. Have the language (and dialect, if you know it), the type of assignment and the date ready.