In general, technology should serve to make our lives better. Software can automate manual steps, reducing the human workload. Translation, like most language-related tasks, is complex. Translation technology has not yet gotten to the point where it can use language the way people can. Translation is, at a minimum, two times more complex than just…
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C’est indéniable : parler une, voire plusieurs, langue(s) étrangère(s) est un véritable atout qui permet de voyager sans encombre dans un pays étranger, de communiquer avec des gens qu’on ne comprendrait pas autrement, de se plonger en profondeur dans une culture qui n’est pas la nôtre et, plus prosaïquement, de savoir ce que l’on commande…
In the coming months, SDL plans to expand Language Cloud to include subscription access to machine translation for use in the translation process. Web content management, analytics and social intelligence specialist SDL introduced Language Cloud, a cloud translation platform that allows organizations to communicate across languages. The solution provides on-demand access to translation services and…
Words that don’t have a direct translation into English, but which we really wish did. The joy of languages is that for all the similarities you can find between some of them (like Celtic languages such as Irish and Welsh, or Swedish and Danish), it’s the differences that can be most interesting. The cliché that…
People often ask me if translation is music or science. The reality is, it’s a combination of both. A good parallel for the translation profession is the music industry, which has been revolutionized by technology. See this video from Smartling , “Why Translation Is Like Music,” below. There is definitely an art to creating the…
English grammar schools have widened the gap between rich and poor, according to a new study published today. Researchers have reached this conclusion after analysing the pay of more than 2,500 people born between 1961 and 1983. They found a much bigger gap between the wages of the highest and lowest paid individuals born in…
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