Localization Today

In the last installment of The Lab for the year, columnist Mark Shriner takes a look at the past year and predicts some trends in the field of life sciences for the coming year. Spoiler alert: Things are looking good for localization folks working in life sciences.

In the latest installment of his column “The Red List,” Tim Brookes has a candid and fascinating conversation with Gerry Leonidas, a professor in the Department of Typography at the University of Reading. The two discuss font creation and the challenges of localizing a font for a specific locale.

In this piece, Dr. Miguel Cerna of Verve Translations does a point-by-point analysis of a previous  MultiLingual  article on LangOps, providing critiques and commentaries on whether or not it’s actually “here to stay” as many others in the magazine have argued.

In this piece, Nimdzi Insights co-founder Renato Beninatto dissects the concept of LangOps, identifying a handful of challenges he foresees for the term as it begins to catch on both within and without the language industry.

While many business people might see a multilingual team as a challenge to overcome, Sophie Jackson thinks it’s the opposite — to her (and many others in our industry) it’s an asset. Here’s why.

In her latest piece for  MultiLingual magazine , Nataly Kelly talks to colleague Karolina Bujalska-Exner, senior marketing manager of international SEO at HubSpot, to gain some insights into how companies can develop an SEO strategy as they expand into new markets abroad.

After attending GALA 2022 this past April, Riteba McCallum was inspired to conduct a survey to determine just how useful professional translators think machine translation is in conducting their day-to-day tasks. Here, she shares the findings of her survey and what she thinks they might mean for the industry.

Sometimes things become reality if you only put the right label on it — in this piece, LT-Innovate board member Arthur Wetzel sets out to determine just what exactly LangOps means, and whether or not “LangOps” is the right label for it.

Each December, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) hosts its NORAD Tracks Santa program, allowing kids to track Santa’s exact location in real time. To spread  the holiday cheer  even further, NORAD and Interpreters Unlimited have partnered up to offer NORAD Tracks Santa in eight languages, making it more accessible to kids from different linguistic backgrounds.

Across the world, these last couple of weeks in the calendar year are jam-packed with holiday celebrations.   As language enthusiasts, it’s fascinating to look at the etymology of the names for these celebrations — here are the origins of names for some common holiday celebrations throughout the world.

Recently, advocates in the US state of New Jersey raised concerns about the state not providing adequate language access services at community meetings on the environment, leading to low engagement levels among individuals with limited English proficiency (LEP).

At the eighth Google for India event earlier this week, Google announced a handful of new language technology developments that it’s rolling out in India.

A recent survey from CNN showed that 90% of adults in the United States believe the country is in the middle of a mental health crisis.  This predicament seems particularly pronounced among children and adolescents — and even worse for children and adolescents who are immigrants or have limited English proficiency.

Nigeria is home to more languages than  all but two countries  on Earth. Still, primary school students in the West African nation have been educated mainly in English for decades, even after the country gained independence from the British Empire in 1960. That may be changing in the near future, though.  

In the United States, the number of people who speak a language other than English at home is rising faster than those who mainly speak English.

If you’ve been watching the FIFA World Cup in Qatar, no doubt you can by now quote parts of the Frito Lays commercial featuring Peyton Manning and David Beckham. 

The quality of machine translation (MT) is quickly approaching that of human translators, according to research published today by  Translated .

As 2022 comes to a close, English-language dictionary publishers are selecting the words that best encapsulate the character and ambiance of the last 365 days.

Researchers at the international tech company NVIDIA recently developed an award-winning automatic speech recognition (ASR) model for Telugu.

Duolingo now gives users insights into their language learning habits for the past year, all in the form of a neatly packed Instagram story-like widget. And following up on that personalized data, the company also released information on language learning trends among all of its users earlier this week in its  2022 Duolingo Language Report .

OpenAI, the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence laboratory behind the large language model (LLM)  GPT-3  and the image generator  DALL-E , launched a new tool on Wednesday: ChatGPT.

A five-day workshop at the University of Kashmir culminated in the completion of a nearly 4,000-word glossary of political science terminology translated into the Kashmiri language.

Almost four months after announcing  it acquired the studio  behind German-language dubs of  Stranger Things  and  The Crown , Deluxe has announced another acquisition: Post Haste Digital, an audiovisual studio that specializes in English-language dubbing.

Often referred to as the biggest sporting event in the entire world, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that broadcasters and organizers of the FIFA World Cup also have to take into account certain linguistic considerations when airing the games on television. 

It can be easy to take our writing systems for granted — we don’t often have to think all that critically about the letters we use on a day-to-day basis, in part because they’ve been around for thousands of years.