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Communicating for the ALC

by Jonny Henchman April 23, 2013 International

As part of our continued drive to increase co-operation between language companies, we worked alongside Dynamic Language in Seattle to provide an information delivery system for the Association of Language companies (ALC) of which we are both members. Our aim, and that of the ALC, is to improve quality and systems within the translation industry [...]

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Are Bad Translators Driving Out Good Translators?

Are Bad Translators Driving Out Good Translators?

by Annie Pagano March 8, 2013 Case Studies

this is a guest post written by our partner company Interpreters and Translators, Inc. from Manchester, Connecticut USA Paul Sulzberger on his blog, The Translation Business, recently asked whether bad translators are driving out good translators. Paul’s posting tackles the issue of how the need for translation is growing steeply but the fees translators earn [...]

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No Hashtags, Please, We’re French

by Alison Kroulek January 30, 2013 Languages
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In recent years, the guardians of the French language have had trouble keeping up with the influx of English-language loanwords from the tech world. Buzzwords like “cloud computing” and services like Twitter and Facebook leave an unmistakable, and unmistakably English, impact on the language.

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The Pope Tweets in Latin

by Alison Kroulek January 24, 2013 Languages
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Change sometimes comes slowly to the Catholic Church. However, last month the Vatican’s communications strategy took a huge leap forward when Pope Benedict XVI joined other world leaders on Twitter, under the username @Pontifex. At first, his Holiness tweeted in English on his main account, with 7 other accounts dedicated to tweets in languages including [...]

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Kindle Paperwhite Now Speaks Japanese

by Alison Kroulek October 26, 2012 Technology
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After 5 years, Amazon has finally released its popular Kindle and the Kindle Store to the Japanese market. A Japanese version of the new Kindle Paperwhite is now available for pre-order in Japan, as are the Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD tablets. Considering Japan’s reputation as voracious consumers of all things tech, why did [...]

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Translating Fast Fashion

by Richard Brooks September 25, 2012 Case Studies

We recently developed a solution for a very large European retailer to help them to localise (translate) all of their packaging for their dynamic range of clothing. The challenge in this space is to provide translation that is ‘on trend’, error free and makes best use of all the previously translated material, which helps to [...]

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BBC Cymru Wales Plans to Double Welsh Language Users

by Alison Kroulek August 10, 2012 Publishing
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Technology is a double-edged sword for many minority languages. On the one hand, it can be instrumental in preserving these languages, teaching them to others and connecting fellow speakers. On the other hand, English is one of the dominant languages on the web, and people who speak both English and a minority language are often [...]

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Man Builds “Translation Glasses”

by Alison Kroulek August 8, 2012 Technology
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The tech world has been eagerly awaiting Google’s “Project Glass” ever since it was announced, and Google’s dramatic demonstration of the project at the Google I/O conference in April has only fueled the fires of anticipation. In fact, one developer was so impatient that he went ahead and build his own version of the augmented [...]

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A Premium Price for Irish Text Messages

by Alison Kroulek July 19, 2012 Languages
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Want to send a text message in Irish? Irish mobile phone users recently awakened to an unpleasant truth: it’s much more expensive to send a text in Irish than it is in English. In fact, according to the Belfast Telegraph, it’s cheaper to send a picture message than it is to send a full-length text [...]

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Sign Language Translation Gloves Win Imagine Cup

by Alison Kroulek July 10, 2012 Technology
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A team of Ukrainian students won first prize at Microsoft’s Imagine Cup for their prototype of a device to translate sign language into speech. The EnableTalk gloves are similar in concept to this Fingual sign language translation glove, but with a few significant improvements: they translate sign language directly to speech instead of translating to [...]

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