Localization Today

To help ease the linguistic challenges for refugees from Central America and Mexico seeking asylum in the United States, a team of researchers at the University of Southern California is working on a project to develop machine translation for speakers of K’iche’, an Indigenous languages that’s in high demand within the US immigration courts.

In an analysis of the 50 most widely frequented gaming websites, BLEND found that nearly half offer a multilingual experience, with 48% supporting four or more languages.

Many of the words derived from Spanish entered North American English first, due to the complicated relationship between the United States and the former Spanish territories in Latin America, particularly Mexico. 

With a history in sound production, Andrea Ballista has been developing a groundbreaking voice technology that's attracted funding from the European Commission and subsequent attention from the localization and language technology communities, gaining a first place at the LocWorld Process Innovation Challenge (PIC).

Airgram , a Singapore-based company specializing in voice transcription, announced recently that it has closed its Series A funding round, having raised $10 million, as it prepares to launch in the North American market. 

As we attempted to reach out to Lionbridge regarding their cyber security breach , we got an out-of-office message from Jaime Punishill, Lionbridge’s CMO.

Meta received some harsh words from frustrated Spanish speakers after a shaky international rollout of its game Horizon Worlds .

If you were to visit localization folks around Europe, what would be some of the undeniable recurring themes? With this question in mind, I set out to meet with a half a dozen industry leaders in the flesh this summer. For the past three weeks, I  traveled around Europe, talking with leaders to get a better pulse on EU localization industry trends. 

TransPerfect, a New York City-based language service provider (LSP), announced this week that it is opening an office in Noida, India, a satellite city on the outskirts of Delhi in the National Capital Region.

The optimal process for translating and localizing mountains of copy has yet to be discovered. It’s a process of trial and error that Derick Fajardo, head of machine translation at Harvard Business Publishing knows all too well. In this episode, he shares his experience and insights in an interview hosted by MultiLingual's Editor-in-Chief, Cameron Rasmusson.

The 2022 version of Trados Studio comes with a revamp of the whole product portfolio around the cloud. Not just Trados Studio, mostly addressed at freelancers, but also Trados Team and Trados Enterprise.

Amazon’s Alexa AI team was recently ranked in first place on a shared task at the International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), which focused on developing a machine translation (MT) system that could produce output with different levels of formality in the target language.

Elden Ring is a massive game. For a game of this magnitude to succeed, localization, culturalization, and transcreation are a must. 

The localization supply chain is very crowded at the moment, and AI is constantly knocking at the door. We should not be scared, but at the same time, we should act for better conditions for everyone. 

We use technology not just to communicate on projects but also to assist in the work, and it's become our competition. 

Two years ago, the Trump administration stripped the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of numerous language access provisions, citing their cost as a burden on the economy. Just a few weeks ago, those provisions were reintroduced along with a handful of other measures that would strengthen language access in the United States’ healthcare system.

Translit, an Ireland-based language service provider (LSP), has helped nearly 40 Ukrainian refugees in County Clare learn the ins and outs of community interpreting.

Deluxe, a Burbank-based media production company, recently announced that it has acquired the German dubbing company Creative Sound Conception Studio (CSC Studio).

In his first-time interview, we ask Freelanly founder Fedor Khatlamadzhiev about his entrepreneurship, work-life balance, and the service he's offering to translators and interpreters around the world.

Over the course of the next eight months, the government of Canada’s Northwest Territories (NWT) will be accepting applications for grants toward the education and career development of Canadian translators and interpreters working in Indigenous languages.

The gaming industry is forecasted to grow at an explosive rate of over 9% in the next three years. One of the fastest-growing industries worldwide, the global games market is set to reach almost $257 billion by 2025, according to Statista. More than 2.5 billion people worldwide now play games regularly. 

Not all literary translators are paid equally — recently released survey results show that the income of literary translators varies significantly across different countries. One thing they mostly have in common, however, is that they largely struggle to earn a substantial income through literary translation alone.

A new study from Weglot and  Nimdzi Insights  suggests that machine translation (MT) is more accurate than some people might expect.

When a warning is added on a product — either voluntarily or due to legal requirements — the “Buy me! Consume me!” message is contradicted by a “Keep away!” message. How do manufacturers resolve that contradiction? In at least one case, the answer seems to be “through inattention.”

As the scientific community largely publishes in high-resource languages, languages like Navajo have been left behind, making it hard to translate scientific work adequately.