Professional interpreting services Switzerland
As a specialised Swiss interpreting agency, we provide high‑precision simultaneous interpreting, expert legal interpreting for arbitration, and specialised consecutive and liaison interpreting for international organisations, law firms, corporations and public institutions. We also offer a targeted community interpreting service, provided exclusively in medical, insurance‑related, legal and corporate contexts.
Backed by absolute accuracy and strict terminological consistency, our interpreters deliver linguistic clarity, procedural reliability and professional discretion. Whether you are hosting an international conference, a multi‑day arbitration hearing, a confidential board meeting or a technical consultation, we ensure seamless communication at every stage of your proceedings.
Our interpreting services and technologies at a glance
Professional interpreting places complex and varied demands on multilingual communication. Whether your event requires simultaneous interpreting for an international conference, consecutive interpreting for contract negotiations, or remote interpreting for globally distributed teams, we advise you on selecting the ideal methodology and the most reliable technical setup—on‑site or digital. Our guidance ensures that every multilingual interaction is supported with precision, clarity and operational efficiency.
Every assignment is unique. A large international conference with hundreds of participants requires a fundamentally different approach than a confidential arbitration hearing, a strategic board meeting or a specialised medical consultation. As a trusted interpreting service provider in Switzerland, we tailor our methodology to your operational context, ensuring that communication remains accurate, consistent and discreet across all settings.
Drawing on extensive experience in legal, conference and remote interpreting, we provide strategic advice on selecting the right interpreting technology for your objectives. From booth configuration and audio routing to secure remote platforms, we help you design an efficient, discreet and professional setup that minimises linguistic risk in business‑critical moments.
Not sure which interpreting category your event requires? Contact us—our team will assess your setup, advise you individually, and provide highly qualified interpreters matched to your subject area as well as the appropriate technical solution.
Expertise and reliability: Your interpreting network in Switzerland
- Personalised guidance — Your dedicated single point of contact supports you from initial planning through to final execution.
- Over 20 years of experience — Competent support backed by decades of proven practice in professional interpreting services.
- In‑depth market knowledge — Familiarity with Swiss regulatory nuances, regional terminology and linguistic specifics.
- Extensive network — Highly qualified specialist interpreters across all technical, commercial and legal domains.
- Flexible and responsive — Agile deployment capabilities, including short‑notice assignments.
- Nationwide presence — Operating across Zurich, Basel, Bern, Lucerne, Geneva and beyond.
- Uncompromising quality & certification — Compliance with DIN EN ISO 20108; accredited legal interpreters; graduated conference interpreters; AIIC members; certified remote‑interpreting professionals.
Swiss precision and quality in professional interpreting
Our Managing Director, Silvia Cerrella Bauer, is a graduate conference interpreter and an accredited interpreter with the High Court of the Canton of Zurich for German, French, Italian, English and Spanish. For many years, she has worked regularly for the private sector, investigative authorities and institutional proceedings, building an extensive network of experienced interpreters across numerous languages.
She is a former Vice President, former board member and certified member of ASTTI (Swiss Association of Translators, Terminologists and Interpreters) as well as a member of Swiss Label. Her career spans high‑level conferences, corporate assemblies, formal proceedings and major multilingual events. Over the years, she has developed an exclusive network of seasoned interpreters, including AIIC members and accredited legal interpreters covering a wide range of specialist domains.
Your benefits
- Strategic event support — Individual consultation focused on your communication objectives, ensuring the right interpreting format and workflow for your event.
- Access to accredited specialists — Direct access to interpreters selected specifically for your subject matter, accreditation requirements and linguistic profile.
- Assured quality delivery — Legally precise, terminologically consistent and professionally executed interpretation across all settings.
In our blog article “From a whisper to a button in the ear – learn about the different types of interpreting“, we provide you with an overview of the different types of interpreting and interpreting technologies, so you can get an idea of what is needed for your planned event before it goes ahead.
Since 2012, several institutional clients from the private and public sectors, both at home and abroad, have placed their trust in us as their partner for interpreting services.
Do you want to be sure that your event is in the best hands and that the interpreting services meet your quality standards?
Interpreters and interpreting equipment - we take care of it all
We support you in selecting the ideal interpreting mode and match you with qualified interpreters who precisely meet your subject‑matter requirements. In addition, we manage the complete organisation of your conference technology—from soundproof simultaneous‑interpreting booths to portable tour guide systems (TGS) for mobile, hybrid or on‑site settings.
With the support of our dedicated specialists in interpreting technology, we provide expert guidance to ensure that your hybrid, multilingual or large‑scale events run seamlessly—precise, efficient and professional.
Leave the planning to us: we coordinate the interpreters, the technical infrastructure and the operational flow, allowing you to focus entirely on your core content.
Languages covered by our professional interpreting services
As a specialised Swiss interpreting agency, we support international organisations, law firms, corporations and public institutions with precise, high‑quality interpreting solutions. Whether for a conference, an arbitration hearing or a board meeting, we provide experienced conference interpreters and legal interpreters who ensure absolute linguistic accuracy, procedural reliability and the highest level of professional discretion.
For your events, we provide professional simultaneous interpreters and legal interpreters in the key language pairs:
Swiss national languages
- Interpreting English-German / German-English
- Interpreting English–French / French–English
- Interpreting English-Italian / Italian-English
- Interpreting German–French / French–German
- Interpreting German–Italian / Italian–German
European and international languages
- Interpreting English–Portuguese / Portuguese–English
- Interpreting German–Portuguese / Portuguese–German
- Interpreting English–Russian / Russian–English
- Interpreting German–Russian / Russian–German
- Interpreting English–Ukrainian / Ukrainian–English
- Interpreting German–Ukrainian / Ukrainian–German
- Interpreting English–Arabic / Arabic–English
- Interpreting German–Arabic / Arabic–German
Beyond these core languages, we arrange qualified interpreters for numerous other European and non‑European languages – precisely matched to your specialist fields (conference, legal, medical, corporate).
Do you require interpreting services in another language or language combination? We look forward to receiving your enquiry.
Sign language interpreting: for greater social inclusion
Our mission is to break down barriers and make communication accessible to all. That is why, as well as offering interpreting in many languages, we are also experts in sign language interpreting.
Sign language is a unique and important form of communication for deaf and hard of hearing people. Our highly qualified sign language interpreters translate conversations, meetings, events and more so that all participants have an equal opportunity to be heard and to express themselves.
Read more about the main features of sign language interpreting and how it differs from traditional interpreting in our blog “Key features and differences between interpreting and sign language interpreting“.
Interpreting, translation and everything related
Is your conference already planned, but you still have some documents or other texts (programme, speeches, presentations etc.) that need to be translated before or after the event? Then let us know and we will make sure that everything is rendered consistently in the target language, so that your event is a success.
Are you planning an international conference or do you need an interpreter on short notice for a meeting or negotiation? We can support you with our professional interpreting solutions. Do not hesitate to contact us for advice or a non-binding quote.
"I would like to thank you for the fast, straightforward, and efficient cooperation and especially commend the outstanding performance of your English-German simultaneous interpreters during the live broadcast of the interview with Elon Musk and Alice Weidel. Their ability to seamlessly assume the roles of each speaker ensured an accurate and dynamic interpretation of this complex dialogue."
Burkhard Müller-Ullrich, CEO and founder Kontrafunk, Steckborn
"At a three-day conference with a Brazilian delegation of education policy makers, researchers and philanthropists from various foundations, CB Multilingual's English-Portuguese simultaneous interpreters provided excellent simultaneous interpretation both on site and during various site visits. CB Multilingual's partner technician also provided perfect support throughout the event, immediately correcting any brief interruptions caused by an external signal. We are very grateful for the excellent cooperation with CB Multilingual, which contributed greatly to the success of the event. The entire organisation ran smoothly and very professionally. Even in the case of a spontaneous assignment, Ms Silvia Cerrella Bauer immediately organised a consecutive English-Portuguese interpreter, who also did an excellent and extremely pleasant job. All the interpreters are very good at what they do. We can highly recommend CB Multilingual."
Heidi Riess, Project & Relationship Manager, Wylkomm GmbH, Remetschwil
"We were extremely satisfied with the German-French interpreters at our conference. The French-speaking participants found the quality of their work to be very high! Everything went perfectly!"
"We would like to thank CB Multilingual for their excellent interpreting work. The simultaneous interpreter played a key role in the success of the conference. All of the clients were highly satisfied. Should we need a Hebrew-German interpretation again, we would be more than happy to return to you."
Barbara Schütz, Member of the Executive Board, swissbeautypoint Tobas GmbH, Bassersdorf
"We are very satisfied with the quality of the German-French / French-German liaison interpreting. Our key messages were efficiently conveyed to our business partners".
Caroline Johnson, HR Business Partner DACH, Maisons du Monde, Vertou (FR)
"I would like to thank you for the excellent service you provided and for your positive response within a very short timeframe. The simultaneous German-French interpretation at our delegates' meeting was flawless. The collaboration was excellent."
"The event was a great success! I would like to express my sincere thanks for the simultaneous German-English translation. Our international guests were delighted and thanked you repeatedly for the excellent interpretation. I have no hesitation in recommending your services and will keep your contact details in our system for future projects."
Christian Nicola Schwarz, Junior Brandmanager Hi Trade AG, Baar
"Thank you so much for the great cooperation with you and the English to Czech and English to Hungarian interpreters. The project went according to plan and it was a pleasure to work with you. I hope there will be further opportunities to work with your company."
Nadia Sotirow, Senior Project Manager, Brave Hearts engagement marketing agency, Warsaw (PL)
"The feedback on the simultaneous interpretation services in German, English and French at our medical congress was overwhelmingly positive, with delegates praising the accuracy of the translation. I received excellent all-round support, all the professionals involved (interpreters and technical staff) were punctual, highly motivated and well prepared."
Catharina Cziczkat, Medical Advisor DACH, Wellspect Healthcare, Elz (D)
"I would like to extend my sincere thanks to your two British sign language interpreters for making this event truly exceptional. Watching them in action was incredible - so much so that I found myself watching them more than the speakers themselves. The level of focus, improvisation, motivation and resilience they demonstrated was amazing and perfectly in keeping with the spirit of the conference."
Eleonore Poli, founder Community of Human Analogue Space Missions (CHASM), Lausanne CHASM
"We have never had such skilled German-French interpreters as at our autumn conference in 2023, so we must extend our utmost appreciation. Thank you very much for the simultaneous translation."
Otto Steiner-Lang, President Schweizerischer Verband Network Management, Uetliburg
"We have used CB Multilingual's interpreting services mutiple times and have always been very satisfied. Competent, fast and reliable - thank you very much!"
Evita Schildknecht, Marketing communication, Hoval AG, Feldmeilen
"We hired CB Multilingual to provide German-French consecutive interpreting for our participation in the Swiss Automotive Show in Granges-Paccot. The consecutive interpreter was very open with our customers. After just a few hours, he was actively approaching our customers and explaining the benefits of our products, which was very well received. Especially as 60-70% of the visitors were French-speaking. The consecutive interpreting went smoothly and very well. I am very satisfied and will be using CB Multilingual again next year! Thank you for the professional and straightforward organisation!"
Christopher Kurz, Marketing Manager D/A/CH, Lumileds Germany GmbH, Aachen (D)
"We used French-German interpreting services from CB Multilingual (CBM) for our wholesale customer event in September 2022. We found the entire organisation and coordination together with CBM to be very professional and helpful. The two interpreters were very well prepared and also exceptionally flexible when it came to discussions in the plenary. The feedback from our clients from French-speaking Switzerland regarding the interpreting services provided was extremely satisfactory. The use of the equipment was explained to us in detail, so everything worked excellently.
We would like to thank the CBM team again for the great support and service, which met our expectations. We will certainly consider CBM again for future larger meetings."
"I can only confirm this for 2024, it was again an excellent service and we are completely satisfied and look forward to engaging CB Multilingual for future events."