Localization Today

Although we typically associate learning disorders like dyslexia with school kids, they can have a profound impact on adults as well. In this article, translator and interpreter Pauline Surgo takes a look at some of the creative strategies she’s developed to overcome dyslexia, dysgraphia, and dyscalculia in her career and shows how you can incorporate them into your practice as well.

Key principles, best practices, and real-world examples of how artificial intelligence and machine translation are being used to reduce costs and turn-around times, while improving both quality and security of life sciences-related translations.

How about switching between scripts? Endangered Alphabets Project founder Tim Brookes examines a series of seemingly disparate structures — Stonehenge, the Congolese Mandombé script, and trees — to propose an interesting argument about the role of patterns and chaos in scripts (and beauty!).

When the business, and marketing's much broader scope, begins to creep beyond just one country or language, the complexity can begin to seem overwhelming. 

For Tolkien, language was life, not some lesser academic interest but a cornerstone of human civilization brimming with power and depth. 

We are now living in a data-centric era, in which data is crucial to corporations, governmental agencies, research groups, and even language service providers when making decisions.

Brave Software, the San Francisco-based company behind the privacy-focused browser Brave, announced earlier this week that it has added more than 90 languages to its Brave Translate tool, bringing the total number of languages offered on the platform up to 108.

The state of Colorado recently announced that it is working with CyraCom, a Tucson-based language service provider, to launch a new service to improve language access for individuals with limited English proficiency who are voting in the upcoming election .

The number of Arabic-to-English literary translations published in the United Kingdom and Ireland between 2010 and 2020 rose by about 92% from the two decades prior, according to research recently presented at the Frankfurt Book Fair .

Musixmatch, a company that allows users to view time-synced lyrics on music streaming platforms, announced that it has begun producing automatic transcriptions of popular podcasts as well.

In an effort to create artificial intelligence (AI)-powered translation programs for unwritten, predominantly oral languages, Meta claims it has developed the first such program for Hokkien, a southern Chinese language that does not have a standardized writing system.

Summa Linguae Technologies, a Krakow, Poland-based language service provider (LSP), announced its acquisition of Warsaw-based GET IT on Tuesday. 

With Hiventy under its wing, TransPerfect — which is already the largest LSP in the industry, according to this year’s Nimdzi 100 — is poised to expand its audiovisual services, thanks to Hiventy’s suite of international offices and a team of roughly 300.

In an Oct. 10 blog post, the company announced that clients can now use Wordly’s platform to create a translated transcript of recorded audio content.

The DOE’s Office of English Language Acquisition has spearheaded the National Professional Development (NPD) program to build, strengthen, and support a nationwide network of educators suited to working with students who are learning English as a second or other language.

While these emotive little symbols can add a bit of character to an otherwise dull text message to friends or family, brands must be careful not to confuse or offend their audience when using emojis in their marketing content.

The WBEC Metro NY awarded Eriksen Translations with the awards, honoring the LSP’s work to help city and state agencies in the New York City metropolitan area provide quality language access services.

Over the last decade, we have seen localization for video games continuously expand into new regions, and most recently there has been a significant increase in demand for localization and testing for Southeast Asia (SEA) regions.

On Oct. 3, New York launched its new Office of Language Access, which will oversee the state’s recently adopted language access policy and facilitate the translation of government communications into 12 of the most widely spoken languages across the state .

Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Apple may have competing interests, but they’ve recently found one thing to work together on: All five of these big tech companies have joined forces to support the Speech Accessibility Project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

We have heard much in language services about technology shifts and about M&A. Let’s talk about the individuals involved — the freelance linguists, the new hires with poor remote onboarding, and the leaders struggling to prevent the Great Resignation from getting too close to home.

Finding and reading news articles from another country could be getting a whole lot easier, thanks to a new feature Google has in the works for its Search function.

Zingword has just released ZingChat, designed as a team chat program specifically geared for translators. Robert Rogge, CEO of Zingword, took the time to answer a few questions about the work that went into the new tool.

NeuralSpace, a natural language processing startup based in London, announced earlier this month that it's completed its seed round of finding with $2.8 million.

The Association of Translation Companies (ATC) announced the winners of its annual Language Industry Awards on Thursday, celebrating high-achieving language service providers (LSPs) and their workers.