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First applied to the platform’s messaging feature, Translation Engine will eventually be used for all user-generated content, according to Airbnb officials. We caught up with the Airbnb team to learn just how work has progressed and what comes next.  

Aktuel Translations, a United Kingdom-based company specializing in translation and localization services, was sold to an employee-owned trust earlier this month.

Regardless of the language they are primarily immersed in at home, newborn infants have a well-documented penchant for identifying the slightest differences in the sounds of the world’s languages.

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) announced Friday that it has revised and published its requirements and recommendations for simultaneous interpreting delivery platforms (SIDPs).

Since the onset of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainians’ attitudes on language policy appear to be shifting, according to a recent survey of people residing in the country.

If one of the works win, it would be the first time a novel in translation won the award in the prize’s 25-year history.

Just in time to close out this year’s Māori Language Week, Fujitsu and Straker Translations announced today that they’ve teamed up to offer Māori translation on ServiceNow.

When a group of Advanced Placement (AP) Spanish students in Martha’s Vineyard stepped in to act as impromptu interpreters for non-English-speaking migrants last week, mainstream media outlets presented it as a touching, good Samaritan-esque detail in part of a larger, more unsettling story. However, professional interpreters and others working in language services raised a couple of eyebrows at th...

Monday was another big night for international entertainment with an Emmy win for Lee Jung-jae and Hwang Dong-hyuk of Squid Game . 

An interpreter working for the Dubai-based news channel Al Arabiya likely learned that lesson this past week after accidentally leading an audience to believe that King Charles III was pleased to announce the death of his mother.

The Nimdzi Language Technology Atlas 2022 comprehensively assesses the language-technology landscape, as it does every year. For most people in the industry, this Atlas is essential.

We joke about the preponderance of jargon in the financial services industry, yet each term, description, and acronym carries meaning that may be codified in law or in accepted local usage. In financial services, as in any other highly regulated sector, language really matters.

It’s common to see game reviews like this: "The game needs to add support for Turkish. It’s not fun play- ing without it." Does this mean that the game needs to be translated into Turkish or any other language that can be mentioned in the review? Not necessarily.

Arriving in America as a refugee with almost nothing to her name, Faiza Sultan quickly established herself as a hardworking and reliable linguist, which set the foundation for a career of impressive achievements. 

Asking the entire world to start calling Turkey “Türkiye” without a really convincing justification is sort of akin to asking a group of 40 undergraduate linguistics students to call a pen a “skopliotron.”

Fact is, in the 20th century, the most influential linguists decided that writing was so secondary to spoken language that the two were barely related. What is missing, dear readers, is the richness, range, and multi-angled consideration of writing that we see at work in even relatively small linguistics programs.

This month's issue highlights Faiza Sultan, who arrived as a refugee in the US and used her skills as a linguist to open her own business, and work for some of the biggest companies in the world. The September issue also includes  how-to guides covering the use of reviews for quality assurance in game localization and a deep dive into the nature and origins of place names, just to name a few.   

From naked mole rats to whales, all sorts of MT-like programs have been developed to help humans better understand their animal counterparts, but there’s still quite a long way to go before we’re able to accurately pinpoint the nuanced meanings underlying meows and purrs.

Despite the prevalence of automatic speech recognition software, it’s obvious that these tools could use some improvement, especially when speaking with a non-standard accent or in a slightly noisy environment . According to the team of researchers behind the paper, this can be particularly difficult to get right in Mandarin Chinese.

The Globalization and Localization Association (GALA) has released the results of a survey on support to Ukraine , conducted with 40 respondents of its community .

A business professional with over 20 years of experience in marketing roles, Jolls announced his hiring by Lilt yesterday on LinkedIn, sharing a video where he detailed his reasons for joining the team.   

The NAD’s Policy Institute recently conducted a study assessing the ASL access practices at each state’s press briefings, ranking them according to the visibility of interpreters and the frequency of their presence — just last month, the institute published its findings.

Easy access to the internet and smart devices have democratized learning. Knowledge is now just a click away because eLearning has harnessed the full power of the latest technologies. And language services have paved the way for exchange of information at a global level.

“Children easily acquire language from quantities of data that are modest by the standards of modern artificial intelligence (AI),” reads a paper published in Nature Communications earlier this week.

A popular application allowing users to access Google Translate directly from their desktop (as opposed to their browser) has turned out to be a “crypto miner malware campaign” that’s affected thousands of users across at least 11 countries.