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How to promote multilingualism and cultural diversity in society
Explore the importance of multilingualism and cultural diversity in businesses and society in this episode. We discuss their benefits for corporate culture, innovation, and productivity, with compelling research insights. Listen in to understand how fostering these aspects not only drives business success, but also contributes to a prosperous, inclusive society.
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6 days ago
Celebrating the next generation of language professionals: The MIIS Class of 2023
We celebrate the newly minted graduates from the renowned Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS) Class of 2023. Listen to the stories of graduates like Leanne Ong and Isela Mosqueira, who are ready to conquer the world of translation, interpreting, and localization. Join us as we honor the next generation of language professionals, shaping the future of our industry.
To watch Maroshek-Klarman’s address and the 2023 commencement ceremony in its entirety, click here.
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May 24, 2023
Event Recap: Running Remote Conference 2023 — Uniting Remote Work Advocates and Industry Pioneers in Lisbon
In this episode, we navigate through an enriching two-day conference that assembled remote work champions, seasoned professionals, and industry pioneers from across the world. With over 900 in-person and virtual attendees, the event became a hub for intensive discussions on remote and hybrid work, company culture, and the management of diverse workforces.
For more information about Running Remote, including details about the event, speakers, and upcoming conferences, click here.
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May 19, 2023
It’s All in the User Experiences You Create
Unravel the world of User Experience (UX) with us! We explore why UX matters, its impact on business growth, and its distinction from User Interface (UI). Learn about the intimate link between UX and localization, and discover how cultural nuances influence design decisions. Learn the best practices for creating engaging, effective, and culturally-sensitive UX designs.
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May 19, 2023
Content Marketing Strategy for your Global Audience
Lee Densmer discusses how to tailor content marketing strategies for global audiences, emphasizing cultural understanding, localization, and the need for specific roles in a global content team.
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May 19, 2023
Chatbots More than a marketing tool
Join us as we unravel the journey of chatbots from mere automated helpers to Digital Assistants, shaping the future of work. Discover how advancements in AI and Natural Language Processing are transforming chatbots into sophisticated tools that don't just communicate, but perform tasks, revolutionizing industries like localization. Will our job roles be usurped by these new age DAs or can we evolve and adapt to co-exist? Tune in to find out!
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May 19, 2023
7 Ways to Make Localization Essential for Marketing
Tune in as we delve into the transformative relationship between Localization and Marketing. Discover why bridging these two can unlock unprecedented success in our globalized world. Will these disciplines finally become best friends?
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May 16, 2023
Google unveils generative AI tools at developer conference
Discover the latest AI tools unveiled at Google I/O, including the powerful PaLM 2. Get ready to dive into the exciting future of AI and Google's competition with OpenAI's ChatGPT. Don't miss this insightful episode!
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May 1, 2023
Ai and the Globalization Industry Careers and opportunities
AI is predicted to power 95% of global customer interactions by 2025. Our knowledge is encoded in language, Marciano says. For a machine to be intelligent, it must understand languages. Natural language processing (NLP) has been a huge part of AI since the beginning, he points out. MT is a subset of NLP.
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May 1, 2023
Take the Plunge How to dive into vendor management and enjoy it
Camila Amici reviews Carmen Cisneros’ Take the Plunge — How to Dive into Vendor Management and Enjoy It, and had more than a few flashbacks to the year 2016.
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Apr 20, 2023
AI, Singularity, and us Humans
With the emergence of new AI tools and solutions practically every week, the concept of singularity in artificial intelligence (AI) comes once more to the spotlight. This hypothetical future in which AI will have advanced to the point of gaining self-awareness, becoming sentient, and surpassing human intelligence potentially leading to unforeseen changes to human civilization is a matter of understandable concern for many.
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Apr 19, 2023
Live Machine Translation A new dawn for conference interpreters?
Advancements in communication technology are helping bring the world closer together without ever having to leave the house. Oddmund Braaten from Inerprefy analyses the benefits an limitations of AI in remote interpreting.
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Mar 9, 2023
Dubbing professionals on strike in Italy
Translators have long debated over what advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) could mean for their jobs. Interpreters too. It’s no surprise, then, that improvements in AI-powered dubbing tools have been causing a stir among those who work in audiovisual localization.
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Mar 8, 2023
Recap: ELIA’s Together 2023 conference brings language professionals together with engaging panels, networking sessions, and good food
The European Language Industry Association (ELIA) hosted its seventh edition of Together 2023 from Feb. 22 to 24, 2023 in Rome, Italy. More than 250 attendees joined them at the Barceló Aran Mantegna hotel.
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Mar 6, 2023
Localization leaders discuss ChatGPT’s potential impact on the industry at Custom.MT event
Ever since its launch this past November, ChatGPT’s become something of a household name. Although it may not produce the most impressive content just yet, educators, copywriters, and translators — just to name a few — have all brought into question its ability to affect the landscape of their respective career paths.
That question was at the forefront of Custom.MT’s “ChatGPT in Localization” webinar on Wednesday.
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Mar 4, 2023
From written to spoken: the challenges and possibilities of AI interpretation
While AI may be able to perform some tasks traditionally carried out by translators, it is unlikely to fully replace the role of human interpreters in the near future.
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Mar 3, 2023
The Week in Review: March 3, 2023
It doesn’t seem like ChatGPT will be leaving the news cycle anytime soon now — this week, OpenAI announced that it’s releasing an API that’ll allow businesses to build the technology into their own applications.
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Mar 1, 2023
Artificial intelligence in the classroom: Scholastic and SoapBox Labs partner up on AI-powered curriculum
Scholastic and SoapBox Labs have recently come together to make speech recognition technology accessible to elementary schools across America.
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Mar 1, 2023
The Great Gap: Will MT ever be on par with human translators?
The debate around human parity in machine translation — whether or not we’ll achieve it in our lifetimes and its potential impact on the language services industry — is hotly contested. Here, MultiLingual’s Andrew Warner dives into the history of this topic and gains insight from language industry experts to see how close we are to reaching human parity in MT and what it could mean for human translators.
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Mar 1, 2023
Real-world AI-driven Applications are Signaling a New Frontier in MT | February 2023
At GlobalSaké’s Q3 Interactive Virtual Event this past September, innovative localization teams from companies like BLEND and Subway — yes, the sandwich company — shared how they incorporate artificial intelligence into their localization workflows. Here, Stefan Huyghe recaps some of the technology and
perspectives that folks shared at the event.
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Mar 1, 2023
Jack Welde: Simplifying the process | February 2023
At the most recent LocWorld conference in San Jose, Jack Welde won the Process Innovation Challenge prize for a new program feature that supplies translators with invaluable context. Better context means better, more accurate translations. How does it work? Well, perhaps it’s better if the man himself explains it directly.
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Mar 1, 2023
Machine Translation’s Role in Literary Translations | February 2023
Although machine translation already has a big role to play in other areas of the field, literary translators haven’t quite adopted it so readily — and perhaps it’s for good reason. In this article, Angela Gabrielle Fabunan looks into the role of machine translation when it comes to translating literary works.
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Mar 1, 2023
Innovators Journal: Disentangling blockchain, NFTs, metaverse, Web3, and Web 3.0 | February 2023
If you’ve been trying to wrap your head around the concepts of blockchain, Web3.0, or the metaverse, look no further. Nimdzi’s Nadežda Jakubková has you covered with this in-depth report in the Innovator’s Journal on these pressing topics and how they could impact the language industry in the near future.
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Mar 1, 2023
The Ultimate Top 3 of MT | February 2023
With the democratization of AI, an engineer can build an MT model in one day. However, beating Google or DeepL in quality, performance, and market presence is another story. So, who are the teams that are able to compete, stand tall, and beat the odds in the market of MT? Here are some of our top picks.
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Mar 1, 2023
Education after Singularity | February 2023
When we reach the singularity in machine translation, there’s a good chance it will change the way we teach our future language professionals — MultiLingual sought out expert insights from language educators all across the world to learn a bit more about how they anticipate technological innovation will impact higher education.
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Mar 1, 2023
The Red List: Sankofa | February 2023
In his latest column for MultiLingual, Tim Brookes of the Endangered Alphabets Project decides to take a look at how ChatGPT fares when it comes to chatting about endangered alphabets. Testing it out with his friend Olgierd Uziemblo, he’s less than impressed with the results — learn why in this column.
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Mar 1, 2023
l9Ng69g1: The secret to encryption | February 2023
Are you a code talker? If you’re not, that might change after reading Ewandro Magalhães’ most recent piece for MultiLingual. Here, KUDO’s chief language officer takes a look at how ciphers work and the fascinating history of cryptography.
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Mar 1, 2023
How to Future Proof Today’s Machine Translation | February 2023
Did you know that the amount of content produced by humanity each day is estimated to be 2.5 quintillion bytes? That's more bytes of text than there are stars in the observable universe. In this piece for MultiLingual, Bart Mączyński takes a look at how the translation industry is coping with the explosion of content and the challenges it faces in meeting demand.
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Mar 1, 2023
A World of Difference: GALA celebrates 20 years of language work
After two decades in operation, GALA’s become an undoubtedly prominent organization in our field. Here, Cameron Rasmusson takes a few steps back with GALA leadership to trace back the organization’s history and learn a bit more about what’s in store for GALA’s future.
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Mar 1, 2023
Human Translation Skills Needed Today and After the Singularity | February 2023
The translation industry will still be home to many jobs after singularity is achieved, but Adam Wooten thinks those jobs are likely to look different. In this piece for MultiLingual, he proposes a few thoughts of his own on how the singularity will affect the language services industry and change the role of human translators.
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Mar 1, 2023
Creative Destruction or Creative Enhancement? Understanding the impact of hyperautomation and workflow orchestration in the language industry | February 2023
The latest wave of industrial automation with technologies like hyperautomation, workflow orchestration, and generative AI has the potential to widen the range of tasks and jobs software can perform, raising concerns about the impact on jobs and transformations of roles. As we face these questions, Bruno Bitter takes a look into the past to gain some insight on where the the language industry is headed.
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Mar 1, 2023
LangOps: Where’s the beef? | February 2023
After reading the features on LangOps in MultiLingual’s 2022 issue, Kirti Vashee’s still not quite sold on the concept, noting that it overcomplicates things a bit. Here, Vashee presents his thoughts on LangOps and attempts to develop a better, more simplistic approach to talking about it.
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Feb 25, 2023
Embracing AI technology, yes! But all that glitters is not gold
The year 2022 was filled with impressive human-quality claims in the machine-learning field with large language models and general pre-trained transformers, but experts have raised their voices about some serious issues.
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Feb 24, 2023
The Week in Review — Feb. 24, 2023
If you’ve been following MultiLingual for a while now, you may remember our “Weekly Shorts” series from a while back, where we rounded up a week’s worth of language and language industry news every Friday. Though we ended the series in the summer of 2021, we’re pleased to bring back a revamped version today: “The Week in Review.”
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Feb 22, 2023
Phrase CEO Georg Ell talks new releases Orchestrator and Analytics
It’s a big week for LSP Phrase, with the company announcing the most massive product release in its history, and company CEO Georg Ell is excited to talk about it.
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Feb 21, 2023
Celebrating multilingual education on UNESCO’s International Mother Language Day
On Tuesday, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) celebrated International Mother Language Day with a series of panels on multilingual education.
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Feb 21, 2023
What other creative professions can learn from translation about the effects of artificial intelligence
This same technology that enabled neural machine translation to improve machine translation is now finding its way into seemingly unrelated products (think ChatGPT or Dall·E). The translation “problem” has not been solved with the latest advancements in NMT, but there are lessons to be learned in other professions from how the professional translation community has been affected by and adapted to the widespread use of NMT both by translators and by end users.
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Feb 17, 2023
The language industry’s top six companies in 2023
While Nimdzi is still working hard to compile this year’s edition of the Nimdzi 100 — the ranking of the largest language service providers (LSPs) in the world — they can already confirm the top six positions on our ranking.
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Feb 16, 2023
The number of language service providers in the world
How many language service providers (LSPs) are there in the world? In some ways, this question is similar to asking how many grains of sand there are (though maybe not quite as speculative as that).
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Feb 15, 2023
Oregon senate bill generates debate among interpreters, LSPs, labor organizers
A recently introduced senate bill in Oregon is drumming up a bit of controversy among healthcare interpreters and language service providers (LSPs) that work in the state.
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Feb 13, 2023
Music To My Eyes: Rihanna’s ASL interpreter and a brief history of signed music
Rihanna wasn’t the only star at the Super Bowl halftime show last night. Justina Miles interpreted Rihanna’s performance in American Sign Language (ASL), allowing audience members who were deaf or hard of hearing to enjoy the lyrics and essence of Rihanna’s performance in their language.
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Feb 10, 2023
New competition for ChatGPT? Google announces Bard and other AI advancements
Move over, ChatGPT — there’s a new generative AI tool in town.
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Feb 7, 2023
The bill to boost the Hawaiian language in the state’s schools
‘Ōlelo Hawai’i (that is, the Hawaiian language) just might be getting a boost in the state of Hawaii’s public schools soon. Last month, state representative Diamond Garcia introduced House Bill 157, which would drastically increase the number of students in Hawaiian schools studying the language by making it a mandatory subject.
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Feb 6, 2023
Proz.com announces new pro bono translation and interpreting service
ProZ.com, the world’s biggest translation network and networking marketplace, is mobilizing volunteers to offer free (or “pro bono”) translation and interpreting services to nonprofits across the globe in a wide range of sectors. Just a few months old, this new project is already hitting some key milestones.
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Feb 6, 2023
English PEN announces 15 winners of flagship literary translation awards
Fifteen literary translators and their work received high accolades earlier this week, with the announcement of the PEN Translates awards.
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Feb 2, 2023
Blockchain and the language industry: What to know
MultiLingual caught up with blockchain expert and former director of Lionbridge AI Jane Nemcova to learn a bit more about what blockchain is and whether or not language industry professionals should indeed be keeping their eye on developments in blockchain technology.
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Feb 1, 2023
Learning from Each Other: The surprising story of an LSP ‘exchange program’ | January 2023
Most people understand the value of a foreign exchange student program. But what if the concept of an exchange program wasn’t the exclusive domain of students? For LSPs Kobalt Languages, based out of Spain, and Creative Words, based out of Italy, that simple idea sparked into a fully formed project.
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Feb 1, 2023
The Rise of OPI, VRI, and Interpretation Management Systems in Healthcare | January 2023
This month in The Lab, Mark Shriner looks at trends in the delivery of interpretation services in healthcare. Specifically, drivers of the growth in this space and a few of the key attributes of the technology that supports the delivery of interpretation services.
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Feb 1, 2023
Dubbing, Voiceovers, or Subtitles: What’s the best choice for reaching global audiences? | January 2023
Multimedia post-production offers various ways to reach your audience. The most popular of these include dubbing, voiceovers, and subtitling. Each method has its own benefits and drawbacks, so it’s important for a company to evaluate all pros and cons in order to choose the right one for its goal.
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Feb 1, 2023
Medical Writing and Medical Communication: A strategy for differentiating services for LSPs | January 2023
As the pandemic from which we are painstakingly emerging has taught us, making correct scientific information available to the public is not only a question of professional ethics for those who work in communication, but also a question of public safety.
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Feb 1, 2023
The Shelfie | January 2023
When COVID arrived, or more exactly when Zoom arrived shortly afterwards and we all invited the world on a video tour of selected parts of our homes, we all faced interesting design/disclosure questions. What did we want the world to see, and not to see?
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Feb 1, 2023
How LSPs Can Contribute to Language Conservation | January 2023
Having such committed partners is the first step in being able to provide clients with high-quality translations in low-resource languages. The Akorbi team is delighted to be at least a small part of the ongoing effort to keep Hawaiian growing and evolving, as they also do with languages like Ilocano and Samoan. In the story of this collaboration, one can find a real-life example of how language services providers can have an impact on the status of endangered languages.
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Feb 1, 2023
Best Practices in Vendor Management | January 2023
One can easily imagine a small LSP where there is no separate vendor management function — likely project managers perform this role. Ultimately, it is the PM who is responsible for all key aspects of a project — budget, time, and resources. But mature providers have a dedicated team of vendor managers, who take over much of the PM responsibilities.
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Feb 1, 2023
Wayne Bourland: Director of Translation at Dell Technologies | January 2023
A company as massive as Dell Technologies has no shortage of need for translation and localization services. And Wayne Bourland, director of translation, is the man heading up that operation. Though he didn’t originally envision a career in language service, his career took him in an unexpected direction, and now he oversees the translation of words by the millions or even billions.
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Feb 1, 2023
Book Review | Galateo Per Traduttori: Regole e segreti per un rapporto di successo con le agenzie di traduzione | January 2023
Galateo Per Traduttori: Regole e segreti per un rapporto di successo con le agenzie di traduzione (Italian for A Translator’s Etiquette: Rules and Secrets for a Successful Rapport with Translation Agencies) is the latest joint publication by Marco Cevoli and Sergio Alasia, managing director and owner, respectively of Qabiria, a language consulting company based in Barcelona, Spain. Giada Gerotto of Creative Words gives her review of the book.
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Feb 1, 2023
Gridly vs. Google Sheets, or Changing outdated practices in a localization pipeline | January 2023
For as long as Denis Ivanov could remember, his localization team worked with Google Sheets. Everyone was comfortable and familiar with it. But at some point, the thought popped into their heads that there must be something better. When they went searching, they discovered Gridly, a localization platform.
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Jan 30, 2023
Rushed Spanish translation of Prince Harry’s memoir shapes media coverage
What happens when the translation of a book comes out before the original text? That’s what happened earlier this month with Prince Harry’s memoir — albeit, inadvertently so. The Spanish translation of his book Spare went on sale nearly a week before its official release date on Jan. 10, prompting some premature media coverage of the book’s contents in the Anglosphere.
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Jan 25, 2023
KUDO showcases AI-powered speech-to-speech translation tool at launch event
On Jan. 24, KUDO held a launch event announcing its forthcoming artificial intelligence (AI)-powered speech-to-speech translation tool, KUDO AI.
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Jan 24, 2023
How AI Tools Will Make Global Communication Better for Everyone
Generative AI tools have arrived, quite loudly, onto center stage, and in my opinion, this is not just part of another tech hype cycle. Rather, they deserve our eager applause.
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Jan 20, 2023
Gibberish translations marred disaster relief effort in Alaska
A California-based language service provider (LSP) is in hot water this week, after reports came out that the company provided the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) with nonsensical translations into Indigenous languages.
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Jan 18, 2023
DeepL, Write, and penetrating AI
Cologne-based DeepL has announced the beta launch of DeepL Write, an AI-powered authoring tool intended to improve texts by fixing errors and making suggestions for word replacements while keeping an eye on style, grammar and formatting.
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Jan 18, 2023
BLEND launches 2022 Localization Hall of Fame
BLEND, a Tel Aviv-based language service provider (LSP) specializing in localization and translation, recently unveiled its 2022 Hall of Fame initiative to highlight some of the year’s most successful and creative localization projects.
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Jan 12, 2023
The Translation People completes management buyout with backing from Mobeus
Mobeus, a London-based investment firm, supported The Translation People’s MBO as a platform investment, making its first investment in the language services industry.
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Jan 6, 2023
A conference banned ChatGPT-generated text in its call for submissions. Can it enforce that policy?
In its most recent call for submissions (which opens Monday, Jan. 9), the ICML included a note in its “Ethics” section prohibiting the use of text generated by ChatGPT and other LLMs, unless “presented as part of the paper’s experiential analysis.”
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Jan 5, 2023
The future of branding (for LSPs)
Knowing when to make a change in strategy is possible only when clients or prospects trust their provider enough to give honest feedback. And sometimes providers just try something new because they believe in it, and measure success as they do so. These are the trailblazers, but they do this at a huge risk — reputationally and financially. Marketing and experienced media agencies can help analyze markets, provide special opportunities, and recommend ways to stand out with your marketing.
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Jan 5, 2023
Asian Americans with LEP face unique barriers in healthcare, researchers say
A recent study published by the Washington, D.C.-based Urban Institute found that Asian Americans with limited English proficiency (LEP) face unique language barriers compared to other groups with high levels of LEP.
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Jan 3, 2023
Is my software inclusive?
Software is often the external face of the company. Many people interact with the company exclusively through the software. But what if your software biases some employees to be more successful than others?
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Jan 3, 2023
The missed chance with Catalan
Catalan has often been excluded from some social media platforms on the assumption that Catalan-speaking users would feel comfortable using the Spanish version. Recently, Plataforma per la Llengua (“Platform for the Language”) published the results of a market study conducted in Catalonia that sheds light on the possibility of companies such as LinkedIn and Instagram increasing their market penetration by incorporating Catalan into their platforms.
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Jan 3, 2023
How Data Analysts Have Helped Language-Driven Businesses Sort Their Operations
Organizations are adopting a data-driven culture in order to avoid falling behind their competitors and to see results. According to a Forrester report, data-driven companies “grow at a rate of more than 30% per year.”
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Jan 1, 2023
LangOps: The Vision and The Reality | December 2022
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.
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Jan 1, 2023
How Do You Localize a Font? A conversation with Gerry Leonidas | December 2022
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.
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Jan 1, 2023
How to Leverage a Multilingual Team for Maximum Success | December 2022
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.
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Jan 1, 2023
LangOps: Pipe Dream, LSP´s Heaven or Just a New Hashtag? | December 2022
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.
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Jan 1, 2023
The LangOps Paradigm: Perceptions of machine translation within the translation industry | December 2022
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.
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Jan 1, 2023
The Presentation of Novelty for the Common Good: A critical review of the Global Language Operations concept | December 2022
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.
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Jan 1, 2023
On the Origin of LangOps: The evolution of the localization roadmap | December 2022
The phrase “LangOps” has received quite a bit of buzz lately, but where did it really come from? In this piece, MultiLingual staff writer Andrew Warner takes a look at the phrases’s origins and how it fits into the evolution of the localization industry.
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Jan 1, 2023
Life Sciences 2022: A year in review | December 2022
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.
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Jan 1, 2023
Building a Multilingual SEO Program | December 2022
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.
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Jan 1, 2023
The Pen and the Voice: Language and the voyage of Magellan | December 2022
In this column, KUDO co-founder and chief language officer Ewandro Magalhães tells the tale of Enrique — an enslaved person who served as Ferdinand Magellan’s interpreter in his quest to circumnavigate the world.
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Dec 24, 2022
Interpreters Unlimited spreads Christmas cheer with NORAD
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.
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Dec 22, 2022
Holiday Etymology: It's the most wonderful time of the year!
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.
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Dec 21, 2022
Keeping individuals with LEP up to date on environmental issues
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).
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Dec 20, 2022
Language tech developments at the 8th Google for India conference
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.
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Dec 16, 2022
US mental health crisis may be harder for individuals with limited English proficiency
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.
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Dec 16, 2022
A new policy for Nigerian languages in the country’s education system
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.
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Dec 14, 2022
Linguistic diversity is increasing in the US. What does that mean for language access?
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.
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Dec 14, 2022
Soccer or Football? Beckham and Manning couldn’t solve it, so we did
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.
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Dec 13, 2022
Research from Translated projects that MT is nearing human-like levels of performance
The quality of machine translation (MT) is quickly approaching that of human translators, according to research published today by Translated.
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Dec 9, 2022
What do the words “permacrisis,” “gaslighting,” and “goblin mode” all have in common?
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.
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Dec 9, 2022
NVIDIA researchers win first place in Telugu ASR competition
Researchers at the international tech company NVIDIA recently developed an award-winning automatic speech recognition (ASR) model for Telugu.
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Dec 8, 2022
Looking at Duolingo’s end-of-year report on language learning trends
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.
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Dec 6, 2022
Here’s what people are saying about OpenAI’s ChatGPT
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.
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Dec 5, 2022
Talking politics in a low-resource language
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.
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Dec 2, 2022
Deluxe makes eighth acquisition in two years: Post Haste Digital
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.
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Dec 1, 2022
32 countries, countless languages: Linguistic considerations at the World Cup
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.
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Nov 30, 2022
Closing the Gap | November 2022
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.
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Nov 30, 2022
The Magic of Machine Translation and the Future of Translation | November 2022
Though some might describe machine translation as magic, academic translator and entrepreneur Christopher Reid pushes back on this notion.
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Nov 30, 2022
Olivier Marcheteau | November 2022
In conversation with MultiLingual editor-in-chief Cameron Rasmusson, CEO of Acolad Olivier Marcheteau talks a bit about what’s been keeping him and the company busy over the last few years.
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Nov 30, 2022
Making the Most of Trends in Sales | November 2022
Since returning home from this season's conferences, I have had time to reflect, and this article contains several common themes I noticed of how language entrepreneurs are solving the challenges presenting themselves in sales today.
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Nov 30, 2022
Increasing Localization Value as Global Language Operations | November 2022
Bruno Hermann prefers to refer to localization as “global language operations,” a tendency that he says raises some eyebrows when he discusses it with other folks in the language service industry.
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Nov 30, 2022
Media Access Services: What is so important about them? | November 2022
Every day, we listen to music, enjoy our favorite shows, watch the news, listen to audiobooks and podcasts while driving or going to work — but these forms of media are not accessible for everyone.
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Nov 30, 2022
Native, Hybrid, or Localized? HubSpot’s framework for marketing in many languages | November 2022
If you’re a marketer who is tasked with building international marketing programs in many languages and finding it difficult, you’re definitely not alone.
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Nov 30, 2022
How Does Language Shape the Way we Perceive the World? | November 2022
The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis is usually reserved for introductory college linguistics courses — but the debate surrounding it is an undeniably fascinating conversation for language professionals as well.
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Nov 30, 2022
The Alien Communication Handbook Review | November 2022
Have you ever wondered how humans would communicate with extraterrestrial beings in an encounter between the two?
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Nov 29, 2022
Training AI to read your lips — in multiple languages
While widely used speech recognition tools like Siri or Otter generally analyze audio alone, researchers have also made progress in developing visual speech recognition (VSR) models, which rely on visual input to identify what a speaker is saying.
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Nov 29, 2022
A $350 million initiative to improve vaccine rates among underserved communities — including those with limited English proficiency
On Nov. 22, the US Department of Health and Human Services announced a $350 million initiative to boost COVID-19 vaccination rates in underserved communities. That includes efforts to expand on translation and interpretation services to make the vaccines more accessible to individuals with limited English proficiency.
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Nov 29, 2022
Do we have enough (human) translators and interpreters to help vulnerable communities?
Refugee crises across the globe this year — from the European Union to Martha’s Vineyard — have highlighted the importance of maintaining a large, diverse workforce of human translators and interpreters.
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Nov 21, 2022
Machine translation is no substitute for humans when it comes to law enforcement
When officers arrived at the scene of a violent confrontation and questioned a bystander, they relied on a free machine translation tool to communicate with him. MultiLingual spoke with Utrilla last week to learn more about the case and how his testimony on speech technology and MT factored into the bystander’s eventual acquittal.
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Nov 18, 2022
NYC Marathon winner brings sports interpreting into the spotlight
Evans Chebet, a long-distance runner who hails from Kenya, received a lot of attention not just for his impressive finish time at the NYC Marathon, but also because he spoke to the media in Kiswahili with the aid of a volunteer interpreter and his coach, rather than using English.
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Nov 18, 2022
Canadian interpreter’s workplace injury highlights on-the-job health risks
The government of Canada is currently investigating the conditions that led to a particularly bad case of acoustic shock in an interpreter working on Parliament Hill last month.
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Nov 18, 2022
Zoom adds sign language interpretation feature
Zoom announced earlier this month that it’s added a new feature to make its video communication platform more accessible to deaf and hard-of-hearing users: a specialized view for sign language interpreting.
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Nov 18, 2022
UNM launches research center to support acquisition of Diné and other Indigenous languages
To promote language revitalization efforts among Native American communities and better understand the role children can play in such projects, the University of New Mexico (UNM) announced Tuesday that it’s launched the Indigenous Child Language Research Center.
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Nov 9, 2022
Humans still beat machines when it comes to literary translation
You wouldn’t use Google Translate to churn out an English-language (or any language, for that matter) version of a novel like Gabriel García Márquez’s Cien años de soledad — or would you?
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Nov 7, 2022
Listenbourg: The fictional country that baffled and entertained Twitter
Have you ever considered the value of localizing for the Listenbourg market? According to Twitter, it’s a beautiful, upwardly mobile region of western Europe that should be attractive for any brand seeking aggressive expansion.
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Nov 7, 2022
Tarjimly receives a big boost from Boeing
Boeing announced Thursday that it has formed a partnership with Tarjimly — an app that allows refugees to access free language services — to help the app expand its reach.
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Nov 7, 2022
California makes progress on dual-language immersion goals
Demand for dual-language immersion programs has been steadily increasing in the United States. The state of California just made a $10 million investment toward meeting that demand.
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Nov 2, 2022
Straker reports strong growth in quarterly report
Straker Translations reported on Friday that it has earned $33 million NZD (19.37 million USD) in revenue during the first half of Fiscal Year 2023 (FY23) — a 42% increase from the same period just one year before.
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Nov 1, 2022
GPT-3 and DALL-E 2 on interpreting
This post, originally posted by Claudio Fantinuoli of KUDO, was written entirely by the GPT-3 AI without any editing.
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Nov 1, 2022
J.R.R. Tolkien's Life in Languages | By Cameron Rasmusson | October 2022
For Tolkien, language was life, not some lesser academic interest but a cornerstone of human civilization brimming with power and depth.
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Nov 1, 2022
The Language Game: How improvisation created language and changed the world
In their book The Language Game, linguists Morten H. Christiansen and Nick Chater propose a series of novel concepts about the nature of language and how it’s developed. In his review of the book for MultiLingual Magazine, Stefan Huyghe wholeheartedly recommends the book to language lovers looking to learn a bit more about how we acquire our first languages.
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Nov 1, 2022
How MT Helps with All Four Legs
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.
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Nov 1, 2022
Bolingo’s African Country Guides Senegal, Tanzania, and Togo
Bolingo is back with three more installments in its African Country Guide series, in an effort to help localization professionals learn a bit more about how to best adapt content for Senegal, Tanzania, and Togo. While the guides won’t leave you an expert on these countries, MultiLingual Magazine staff writer Andrew Warner argues that they may still serve as a useful launching point to kickstart research for localization projects in these markets.
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Nov 1, 2022
The Stonehenge Syndrome Writing as Pattern
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!).
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Nov 1, 2022
Making the Link Between Marketing, Revenue, and Localization | By Nataly Kelly | October 2022
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.
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Nov 1, 2022
Translating and interpreting with learning disorders: How my coping skills help me provide better language services
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.
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Nov 1, 2022
Asian Languages Translation A quality guidebook for novices
While 1-StopAsia’s book Asian Language Translation is a friendly and approachable work that provides an interesting and straightforward introduction to Asian languages for localization projects, MultiLingual Magazine reviewer William Dan worries that it veers into the territory of Orientalism and oversimplification. Still, he argues that it does have some merit for localizers who don’t have any previous familiarity with Asian languages.
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Oct 31, 2022
How language companies can stay on top of the game in a data-driven world
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.
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Oct 31, 2022
Brave adds 93 languages to its privacy-oriented machine translation feature
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.
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Oct 28, 2022
Colorado is making it easier to vote for residents with limited English proficiency
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.
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Oct 27, 2022
The number of Arabic literary works translated into English is rising fast
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.
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Oct 27, 2022
Can AI translate an unwritten language? Meta thinks so.
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.
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Oct 27, 2022
Musixmatch is making podcasts more accessible
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.
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Oct 27, 2022
Got it! Summa Linguae acquires Polish LSP GET IT
Summa Linguae Technologies, a Krakow, Poland-based language service provider (LSP), announced its acquisition of Warsaw-based GET IT on Tuesday.
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Oct 27, 2022
TransPerfect now owns more than 90 recording rooms after Hiventy acquisition
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.
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Oct 17, 2022
Wordly adds new feature to platform: Automatic Transcript Translation
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.
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Oct 17, 2022
US Department of Education awards $120 million to improve education for English learners
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.
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Oct 17, 2022
Do you know your
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.
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Oct 17, 2022
Eriksen Translations wins awards from Women’s Business Enterprise Council Metro NY
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.
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Oct 9, 2022
Video game industry meets booming demand for localization in Southeast Asia
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.
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Oct 6, 2022
New York launches Office of Language Access to support state’s language policy
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.
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Oct 5, 2022
UIUC partners with tech companies to improve speech recognition for individuals with disabilities
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.
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Oct 3, 2022
Lessons learned in times of Covid
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.
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Oct 3, 2022
Google Search to begin translating local news into user’s preferred language
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.
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Sep 29, 2022
Zingword CEO Robert Rogge talks ZingChat release
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.
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Sep 29, 2022
NeuralSpace completes seed round with $2.8 million
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.
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Sep 27, 2022
ATC announces winners of annual Language Industry Awards
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.
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Sep 27, 2022
Airbnb breaks down Translation Engine progress
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.
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Sep 27, 2022
Founder sells Aktuel Translations to employee ownership trust
Aktuel Translations, a United Kingdom-based company specializing in translation and localization services, was sold to an employee-owned trust earlier this month.
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Sep 26, 2022
Study sheds light on infants’ acquisition of native language phonology
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.
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Sep 23, 2022
ISO publishes revised, more collaborative international standard for RSI technology
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) announced Friday that it has revised and published its requirements and recommendations for simultaneous interpreting delivery platforms (SIDPs).
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Sep 21, 2022
War in Ukraine spurs decline in Russian-language use, survey shows
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.
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Sep 19, 2022
Two literary translations shortlisted for $60,000 prize in Canada
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.
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Sep 19, 2022
Fujitsu and Straker Translations collaborate on Māori translation initiative
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.
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Sep 19, 2022
AP Spanish students are no substitute for professional interpreters
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 the detail.
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Sep 19, 2022
Squid Game wins Emmys for best actor, director
Monday was another big night for international entertainment with an Emmy win for Lee Jung-jae and Hwang Dong-hyuk of Squid Game.
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Sep 19, 2022
Al Arabiya interpreter goes viral for questionable error in King Charles III speech
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.
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Sep 15, 2022
How to Analyze Game Localization Quality Using Reviews | September 2022
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.
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Sep 15, 2022
Language Technology in the Year 2022 | September 2022
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.
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Sep 15, 2022
The Golden Rule of Global Financial Communication | September 2022
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.
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Sep 15, 2022
Faiza Sultan | Pursuing the American Dream | September 2022
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.
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Sep 15, 2022
Postediting | September 2022
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.
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Sep 15, 2022
The Missing Language Syllabus | The Red List | September 2022
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.
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Sep 15, 2022
What's in a name? | Everything and nothing, all at once | September 2022
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.”
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Sep 12, 2022
“Animal translation” generates media buzz — does it work?
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.
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Sep 12, 2022
Researchers share framework for more accurate speech recognition
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.
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Sep 12, 2022
GALA urges continued support for Ukraine from localization community
The Globalization and Localization Association (GALA) has released the results of a survey on support to Ukraine, conducted with 40 respondents of its community.
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Sep 8, 2022
Andy Jolls joins Lilt team as CMO
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.
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Sep 7, 2022
National Association of the Deaf publishes ranking of states’ ASL access during COVID-19 briefings
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.
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Sep 6, 2022
Nine strategies for multilingual eLearning success
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.
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Sep 6, 2022
AI is learning how to do your linguistics homework
“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.
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Sep 6, 2022
Popular unofficial desktop version of Google Translate contains malware, researchers say
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.
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Sep 6, 2022
Developing machine translation to help Indigenous refugees navigate immigration courts
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.
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Aug 31, 2022
Localization a key part of gaming industry’s recent, future growth
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.
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Aug 29, 2022
Home on the Rancho: Exploring the English language’s Spanish loanwords
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.
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Aug 25, 2022
Groundbreaking Tech to Voice the Unvoiced
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).
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Aug 24, 2022
A speech tech boom? Airgram raises $10 million in Series A
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.
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Aug 24, 2022
Jaime Punishill to Leave Lionbridge
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.
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Aug 24, 2022
Meta fails to localize Horizon Worlds before launching in Spain and France
Meta received some harsh words from frustrated Spanish speakers after a shaky international rollout of its game Horizon Worlds.
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Aug 19, 2022
Localization impressions around Europe: Is there a silver lining?
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.
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Aug 18, 2022
TransPerfect announces the opening of new office in India
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.
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Aug 17, 2022
Derick Fajardo | Testing the Limits of Machine Translation
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.
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Aug 16, 2022
Trados Studio 2022 | An Accelerated Journey to The Cloud
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.
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Aug 16, 2022
Alexa AI's machine translation controls for formality, ranks first place
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.
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Aug 16, 2022
Localizing Elden Ring
Elden Ring is a massive game. For a game of this magnitude to succeed, localization, culturalization, and transcreation are a must.
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Aug 16, 2022
For the Best Translations, Humanity is Key
We use technology not just to communicate on projects but also to assist in the work, and it's become our competition.
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Aug 16, 2022
The Pieces of Cake at the Localization Party
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.
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Aug 15, 2022
Proposed rule quashes Trump administration’s language access changes
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.
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Aug 10, 2022
Translit helps Ukrainian refugees become trained community interpreters
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.
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Aug 9, 2022
Deluxe acquires German studio behind dubs of Stranger Things and The Crown
Deluxe, a Burbank-based media production company, recently announced that it has acquired the German dubbing company Creative Sound Conception Studio (CSC Studio).
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Aug 9, 2022
Freelanly founder talks about new service for freelance linguists
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.
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Aug 8, 2022
Canada’s Northwest Territories opens up grant applications for Indigenous translators and interpreters
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.
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Aug 5, 2022
Where to take your games abroad: a practical guide
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.
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Aug 4, 2022
Experienced literary translators ‘hardly make a living,’ says CEATL report
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.
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Aug 3, 2022
Study assesses machine translation for marketing purposes
A new study from Weglot and Nimdzi Insights suggests that machine translation (MT) is more accurate than some people might expect.
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Aug 3, 2022
Careless Localization: A surprising story
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.”
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Aug 1, 2022
Translating scientific jargon into Navajo
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.
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Jul 29, 2022
IIT Madras launches institute for AI and language technology
The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) announced earlier this week that it's launched an institute specifically dedicated to the development of language technology for Indian languages.
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Jul 28, 2022
Deaf and hard-of-hearing patients file lawsuit against Washington healthcare provider
The largest healthcare provider in the state of Washington is currently facing a lawsuit over its use of faulty video remote interpreting (VRI) technology.
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Jul 26, 2022
Following outcry, Google Translate removes offensive example phrase for Arabic entry
While brushing up on some Arabic vocabulary, one user pointed out that Google Translate's entry for the Arabic word meaning "plan" was accompanied by an example phrase that means "planning to blow up the car."
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Jul 25, 2022
Design thinking: why it matters in global growth and localization
This non-conventional way of creating innovative products passes through five phases — empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test — and is most useful to tackle ill-defined or unknown challenges. So how can we best translate these phases with localization in mind?
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Jul 25, 2022
Interpreters Unlimited offers Uber-like app to book USA interpreters
Interpreters Unlimited (IU) has developed and released IU Customer App, a proprietary program that allows professionals and businesses to book foreign language interpreters and American Sign Language interpreters in-person, over the phone, or via remote video.
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Jul 22, 2022
TikTok begins rolling out translation, updated transcription feature
TikTok, a popular video-based social media platform, just became the latest big tech company to launch its own translation feature.
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Jul 21, 2022
Song title translation on Spotify complicates search for users
Spotify recently addressed user concerns regarding the automatic translation of song names into English, making titles in languages such as Chinese particularly difficult to find on the platform.
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Jul 20, 2022
BigScience launches open-source LLM, BLOOM
BigScience, an artificial intelligence (AI) research initiative, recently launched BLOOM, an open-source large language model (LLM) that aims to make such technology more accessible.
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Jul 20, 2022
The Evolution of Airbnb’s Localization Strategy
In 2018, Airbnb began a major transformation in its localization strategy and operations, developing and executing countless decisions, projects, products, processes and improvements — which have not only collectively produced strong business results, but also garnered external validation.
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Jul 18, 2022
ATRAE president elaborates on open letter to Iyuno-SDI
In a statement to MultiLingual, Iris Permuy, president of ATRAE, elaborated on the open letter, which claimed that subtitlers and audiovisual translators face low rates and “appalling” work conditions that naturally lead to a decline in quality.
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Jul 18, 2022
Creating a language access plan for an unwritten language
Translating a well-documented, widely spoken language is hard enough. Translating one that doesn’t even have a standardized writing system is even harder. That’s the dilemma Nye County, Nevada is currently facing.
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Jul 18, 2022
User feedback: the only quality measure that counts in localization
User feedback — direct information from those who use your product — is both the most important aspect of any good methodology and also key to any localization effort.
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Jul 18, 2022
Turkish translators at Disney+ warned about translating “sensitive” topics
A month after Disney+ launched in Turkey, local media reported that the company’s Turkish subtitle translators received an email with directions on certain content and sensitive themes that they should flag when working on translation assignments.
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Jul 18, 2022
Meta reaches 200-language milestone in No Language Left Behind initiative
The announcement comes just a few months after the company announced that it would begin a project to develop a machine translation (MT) tool that can translate the majority of the world’s 7,000 or so languages.
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Jul 18, 2022
Verbit to lay off 10% of its workforce
Verbit is undergoing an organizational change involving about 50 layoffs in the U.S. and 30 in Israel. It will employ a total of 520 employees following the cutback, 50 more than it had when it announced its latest funding round.
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Jul 15, 2022
Squid Game makes history as first non-English nominee at the Emmys for outstanding drama
Squid Game, the subject of everyone’s favorite subtitling debate, has become the first non-English series to receive a nomination for outstanding drama at the Emmy Awards.
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Jul 15, 2022
EasyTyping.net launches to facilitate transliteration
A new translation and transliteration tool with a particular emphasis on Southeast Asian languages allows users to easily write in non-Latin scripts without the use of a different keyboard or settings.
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Jul 15, 2022
Continuous localization: Why you shouldn't wait with localization until the end of the production cycle
So what are the elements that a company must have in place to conquer global growth in an agile way?
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Jul 15, 2022
ENCO acquires TranslateTV to improve efficiency of Spanish closed captioning
ENCO, a Michigan-based company specializing in technology for radio and television broadcasting, announced July 6 that it has acquired TranslateTV (TTV) and Sentinel Solutions.
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Jul 15, 2022
Lionbridge addresses outage issues affecting users
Reports of service outages across several Lionbridge platforms have kept the language service provider’s (LSP) engineers busy over the past week.
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Jul 6, 2022
Speechmatics raises $62 million in Series B for inclusive speech recognition
Speechmatics, a startup developing speech recognition technology, announced June 27 that it raised $62 million in Series B funding.
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Jul 5, 2022
Settlement agreement mandates that Chicago public schools provide interpreting and translation services for IEPs
On Friday June 23, the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) and the Board of Education of the City of Chicago agreed to a settlement with a group of parents who filed a federal lawsuit after being denied interpreting and translation services.
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Jun 29, 2022
Translators, interpreters rally for employment status in Department of Labor hearing
Dozens of independent contractors, including translators and interpreters, turned out today for a U.S. Department of Labor Zoom forum over proposed rule changes to employment regulations.
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Jun 29, 2022
One year after acquiring MT startup, Zoom launches translation feature
Zoom announced earlier this month that it will be rolling out a machine translation (MT) feature along with a suite of additional offerings in its new Zoom One package.
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Jun 28, 2022
Illinois passes bill on interpreters in public school, effective immediately
Illinois’s House Bill 5214 (HB 5214) — which expands access to interpreters in the state’s public schools — was approved earlier this month, going into effect immediately as of June 10.
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Jun 27, 2022
Top-10 details to include in the ideal transcreation brief
As businesses become more globally aware, the world of transcreation continues to blossom. So, what should go in an ideal transcreation brief? Here are a few tips to improve turn-around, save you money, and set you up for success.
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Jun 27, 2022
Accent-translation startup raises $32 million in Series A
Sanas, a Palo Alto, CA-based technology startup, received $32 million in Series A funding, according to an announcement earlier this week.
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Jun 27, 2022
Scots literary works and translation projects receive grants
The Scots Language Resource Network recently announced that it is funding the translation and publication of nine literary works in the Scots language.
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Jun 23, 2022
Oregon's healthcare interpreter law goes into effect next week
House Bill 2359 (HB 2359) addresses a major loophole in the state’s Health Care Interpreter Program, which sets language access regulations for healthcare providers that receive reimbursements from public funding. Going into effect on July 1, the bill will require healthcare providers to work with healthcare interpreters certified by the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) in their interactions with individuals who have limited English proficiency or primarily use sign language.
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Jun 22, 2022
Mapping cross-linguistic similarities with Lexibank
Inspired by databases that store genetic information, an interdisciplinary team of researchers has developed Lexibank — a database that aims to help shed light on the world’s linguistic diversity and language evolution.
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Jun 20, 2022
DALL·E 2 AI program baffles scientists by inventing new language
Two researchers at the University of Texas Austin working on the DALL·E 2 program have come to a stunning conclusion: The artificial intelligence (AI) program is now inventing its own language.
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Jun 18, 2022
$7 million in grants allocated to Native American languages
Earlier this week, 45 Native American tribes and tribal organizations received $7 million in funding for Indigenous language preservation efforts.
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Jun 17, 2022
Rhode Island Superior Court rules to enhance education for English learners
A Rhode Island judge ruled in favor of English-language learners earlier this month in a case that questioned whether or not the state’s education system was providing them with adequate support.
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Jun 16, 2022
Mistranslated advertising hinders campaign for San Francisco’s Proposition A
A botched translation of promotional material could have cost the election for supporters of San Francisco’s Proposition A.
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Jun 14, 2022
Study says interpreters can bridge gap between doctors and LEP parents
A study recently published in JAMA Pediatrics showed that parents who have limited English proficiency (LEP) are less likely to feel comfortable asking doctors and other hospital personnel follow-up questions about their child’s care or treatment.
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Jun 13, 2022
Sonoma County corrects erroneous translation of voter guide
Earlier this month, Sonoma County’s Registrar of Voters Office noted that a Spanish translation of the county’s voter information guide included three factual errors.
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Jun 10, 2022
Language advocacy groups outraged over airline’s Afrikaans language test
Ryanair, Europe’s largest airline by number of passengers, has come under a wave of criticism after forcing UK-bound travelers flying with a South African passport to prove their nationality by taking a test in Afrikaans.
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Jun 9, 2022
Can images be used to enhance machine translation output?
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the University of California at San Diego (UCSD), and IBM have developed a machine learning model that just might shake things up in the field of machine translation (MT): VALHALLA.
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Jun 7, 2022
Hearing-related injuries cause interpreter shortage in Canada
Unlike other instances of interpreter shortages that have been reported in recent months, this one has not yet been linked to low pay rates.
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Jun 6, 2022
RRR an international hit for Indian cinema with dozens of dubs planned
Indian cinema is taking the world by storm this year with the success of RRR, a big-budget Tollywood action epic set in the Britain-controlled India of the early 20th century.
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Jun 3, 2022
Lionbridge and Le Monde partner up to offer English news service
Lionbridge announced earlier this week its partnership with Le Monde, a widely read newspaper based in Paris, to launch the newspaper’s English-language version.
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Jun 3, 2022
Kingdom of Characters: How linguistic innovation turned China into a modern powerhouse
Kingdom of Characters, a fascinating new book by Yale University professor and historical scholar Jing Tsu, argues that China’s most daunting challenge after its meteoric economic rise over the last century was a linguistic one: making the Chinese language more accessible in a world increasingly designed for the Roman alphabet.
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Jun 2, 2022
Turkey floats idea of officially changing name to reflect native spelling, Türkiye
The Turkish government recently announced plans to change its official name in the United Nations’ registry of country names to “Türkiye,” which reflects the country’s name in the Turkish language.
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Jun 1, 2022
NY court interpreters propose class action against state
A group of courtroom interpreters has proposed a class action suit against the New York State Unified Court System for discriminatory pay practices targeting immigrant groups.
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May 31, 2022
Looking at future trends in localization in the 2022 Imminent Research Report
Translated, a Rome-based language service provider (LSP), has released the 2022 Imminent Research Report, providing information on future trends in the field of localization.
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May 31, 2022
Language activists gather in Belfast to support Irish
On Saturday, May 21, thousands of activists marched through the streets of Belfast to show their support for legislation that would support and protect the use of the Irish language within Northern Ireland.
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May 31, 2022
Could Google’s AR glasses break language barriers?
Earlier this month, Google gave the public a sneak peek at its latest piece of translation technology: a pair of augmented reality (AR) glasses that translates spoken language in real time.
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May 31, 2022
Los Angeles Chargers reverse-localize schedule release with anime spot
The Los Angeles Chargers not only came up with relevant content, but they also showed us that localization can be used in delightfully unexpected ways with the release of their 17-game football schedule.
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May 25, 2022
Africa Day 2022: Developing a more equitable tech landscape for African languages
Today marks the 59th year of Africa Day, a worldwide celebration commemorating the founding of the Organization of African Unity (OUA, from the French “Organisation de l’unité africaine”).
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May 24, 2022
Weekly Review — May 24, 2022 — Rikkert Engels
MultiLingual's Editor-in-Chief Cameron Rasmusson discusses the launch of HelloTranslate with Xillio owner Rikkert Engels to get an inside look at what this new translation solution brings to the industry.
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May 20, 2022
Dual-language immersion programs call for more accessible certification process
Educators in dual-language immersion programs across the United States are calling on the Educational Testing Service (ETS) to improve language access on the company’s Praxis teacher-certification exam.
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May 19, 2022
Translated announces merger with ModernMT
Translated, a Rome, Italy-based language service provider (LSP), announced May 19 that it has finalized plans to merge with the machine translation (MT) provider ModernMT.
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May 19, 2022
Using AI to assess literary and religious translations
A recent study published in the journal IEEE Access is shining light on ways in which artificial intelligence (AI) tools can be used to assess the quality of a human-created translation.
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May 19, 2022
Netflix expands translations on Global Accessibility Awareness Day
Netflix is making it easier for everyone to enjoy its content — on Global Accessibility Awareness Day, no less.
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May 19, 2022
RWS shares drop 19% after BPEA abstains from takeover
RWS shares declined sharply this morning as Baring Private Equity Asia Fund VIII (BPEA) announced that it would not be making an offer for the language services provider (LSP).
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May 16, 2022
Bill supports New York City Chinatown’s English-Chinese street signs
Since the 1960s Manhattan’s Chinatown has featured bilingual street signs, but recently these signs have begun to disappear.
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May 16, 2022
Applying corpus linguistics in the courthouse
It looks like the next group of professionals to hone their understanding of corpus linguistics could be lawyers.
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May 13, 2022
24 languages added to Google Translate using zero-shot translation
Earlier this week, Google announced that its machine translation (MT) platform, Google Translate, will now offer 24 more languages.
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May 12, 2022
Meta gives researchers full access to its large language model, OPT-175B
Earlier this month, Meta announced the development of its large language model Open Pretrained Transformer (OPT-175B), which has been trained on 175 billion parameters from public datasets.
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May 11, 2022
Should coding count for foreign language requirements?
A bill in the Louisiana State Senate could allow schools to offer programming languages in place of a foreign language.
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May 10, 2022
Microsoft adds Ukrainian to Reading Progress platform
Earlier this month, Microsoft announced that its Reading Progress tool — a free platform that allows teachers to assess students’ reading progress — will include Ukrainian in its list of available languages.
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May 9, 2022
Weekly Review — May 6, 2022 — Gabriel Cruz and Bill Hindle
There is an increasing call for interpreters and bilingual speakers, but why is the word "certified" left out so often? Marjolein talks to Bill and Gabe — the founders of language testing company ParrotUSA about the meaning and importance of verified language skills today.
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May 9, 2022
HelloTranslate launches, bringing new approach to translation
There’s a new player in the content translation space. And thanks to an innovative new business model, HelloTranslate aims to make content translation more affordable for smaller players.
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May 9, 2022
What are the most important African languages in emerging markets?
A February article in Business Insider Africa listed the 10 largest African economies to invest in as of 2022. Those economies come with their own array of important African languages.
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May 9, 2022
French Canadian Language Activist Michel Thibodeau wins victory against airports
A Canadian Federal Court has ordered two airports in Alberta and Newfoundland and Labrador to pay thousands in damages for official language rights violations, stemming from complaints by language activist Michel Thibodeau.
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May 6, 2022
How should large language models be regulated?
A 134-page report from the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy warns researchers and policymakers alike against the potential dangers of large language models (LLMs), which have been on the rise in recent years.
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May 5, 2022
Machine translation and slang: A new approach
A team of researchers at the University of Toronto has introduced a new framework for interpreting slang in natural language processing (NLP).
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May 2, 2022
Dialect or language: What separates one from the other?
Beyond the theoretical definitions, the distinction between what we call a language and what we call a dialect gets a lot murkier very quickly. Quite often, politics play an important role in whether something gets labeled a language or a dialect.
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May 2, 2022
The Great Translation Movement translates Chinese social media, public opinion
A team of anonymous Chinese speakers is attempting to shine light on misinformation and propaganda on Chinese-language social media. The group launched The Great Translation Movement in March 2022, gaining more than 145,000 followers in just a matter of weeks, in the hopes of “raising awareness about the state of public opinion in China.”
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May 2, 2022
Courtroom interpreters on verge of walkout in Colorado
The supply of courtroom interpreters in Colorado isn’t the only thing that remains low — wages are too. According to the Denver Post, the state’s courtroom interpreters are “among the lowest-paid in the nation.”
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Apr 29, 2022
States address need for interpreters in education
While the need for professional interpreters in settings like courtrooms, healthcare institutions, and conferences has long been established, interpreters have been somewhat absent in the U.S. education system.
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Apr 27, 2022
Algospeak: a new language to circumvent AI-powered content moderation
Recently, social media saw the birth of a whole new language coined Algospeak, employing code words and phrases to prevent posts from being removed, demoted in rank, or demonetized by automated content moderation systems.
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Apr 27, 2022
New India Foundation announces recipients of Translation Fellowships
The New India Foundation (NIF) has launched a new fellowship promoting the translation from ten different Indian languages into English.
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Apr 25, 2022
Ten more mistakes to avoid in localization
Recently, we highlighted five mistakes to avoid when planning and envisioning a localization project. But what about the pitfalls that arise when you get into the work of localizing content?
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Apr 25, 2022
Private equity firm eyes RWS takeover
Confirmation that private equity firm Baring Private Equity Asia Fund VIII (BPEA) is eyeing a takeover of translation and localization juggernaut RWS sent the stock market into a tizzy Thursday.
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Apr 25, 2022
Weekly Review — April 22, 2022 — Stefan Huyghe
Stefan Huyghe and Marjolein Groot Nibbelink unpack the influence of Dutch on English, language evolution, and the shift in writing education in the US.
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Apr 22, 2022
Book Translation Program offers grants for English to Kyrgyz translations
The US Department of State is currently accepting applications for grants to translate American English-language literature and other writing into the Kyrgyz language.
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Apr 20, 2022
CITLoB president Sandeep Nulkar on partnership with ATC
In March, the UK-based Association of Translation Companies (ATC) and the Indian Confederation of Interpreting, Translation, and Localisation Businesses (CITLoB) announced a new partnership between the two groups.
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Apr 20, 2022
NOOR, the new largest NLP model for the Arabic language
The Technology Innovation Institute (TII), an Abu Dhabi-based research center, recently announced the development of NOOR, the largest Arabic-language natural language processing (NLP) model to date.
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Apr 19, 2022
Bet you didn't know that much of your English is actually Dutch
Although Dutch might be spoken by only around 28 million people worldwide, the official language of Belgium and the Netherlands has left a considerable stamp on the English language. That's largely because of its importance in maritime history.
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Apr 18, 2022
What AI could tell us about language evolution
If you’ve ever read the work of William Shakespeare, you should be fairly familiar with the phenomenon of language change. Now, a recent study published in Cognition shows that artificial intelligence (AI) can help us better understand — and even predict — changes to a given language.
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Apr 15, 2022
Weekly Review — April 15, 2022 — Olivier Marcheteau
Olivier Marcheteau gives an in-depth interview about Acolad's acquisition of Ubiqus.
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Apr 15, 2022
Department of Justice files statement of interest on language access and housing
According to the plaintiff CNY Fair Housing, a nonprofit that advocates for tenants’ rights, an apartment complex in Syracuse refused to rent apartments to individuals with limited English proficiency. Because this case could have implications for the country’s wider LEP population, the DOJ released a statement of interest explaining the ways in which restricting LEP is a violation of the FHA.
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Apr 14, 2022
How digitization helps preserve languages
With a significant round of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities going toward Native American language digitization projects earlier this year, along with several other recent projects to digitize indigenous languages across the world, it’s worth exploring how these projects can aid in language revitalization.
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Apr 12, 2022
French education programs in Québec come under fire for racist materials
As Quebec’s provincial government attempts to tighten its language policy and adopt more pro-French legislation, many non-Francophones are protesting what they deem nationalistic and xenophobic sentiments.
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Apr 12, 2022
How French made its mark on the English language
An estimated 80,000 English words are of French origin, with expressions like “c’est la vie” or “je ne sais quoi” a common part of English vocabulary. But how did that particular language have such a profound influence on its linguistic cousin?
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Apr 8, 2022
Word Tips survey sheds light on Americans' interest in foreign languages
Perhaps one of the most common negative stereotypes of the average US resident is a general ignorance of other cultures and languages distinct from their own.
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Apr 7, 2022
Linguistic gender bias goes further than you may expect
Researchers at New York University have found that the English word “people” may not be as gender-neutral as you might think.
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Apr 7, 2022
Solving the language gap in scientific research
Just how much scientific research is being obscured due to language barriers?
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Apr 5, 2022
Olivia Rodrigo, other nominees bring ASL interpreters to Grammys
Several news outlets and deaf individuals commended Best New Artist winner Olivia Rodrigo for conducting interviews alongside an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter — such accommodations didn’t stop with Rodrigo’s ASL interpreter, though.
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Apr 5, 2022
Top-five mistakes to avoid with localization
Localization can be a complicated process. There are no shortage of factors to consider when bringing content to a new market. But what are some of the main pitfalls to avoid with your latest localization project? Nataly Kelly, Vice President of Localization at Hubspot, shares her top-five mistakes that can derail a localization project.
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Apr 4, 2022
Acolad CEO Olivier Marcheteau talks Ubiqus acquisition and business future
Last week, Acolad announced its acquisition of Ubiqus, bolstering its localization capabilities ahead of projected industry growth. For Acolad CEO Olivier Marcheteau, the partnership is a perfect fit. After running in the same circles for many years, Acolad and Ubiqus have formed a team they believe will mutually benefit both parties.
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Apr 2, 2022
Differences between US and UK English that language professionals should know
The different dialects of English present an interesting challenge for professionals working in language services.
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Apr 1, 2022
Weekly Review — April 1, 2022 — Geoffrey Koby
Dr. Geoffrey Koby was instrumental in creating the survey that was turned into the sixth annual ATA Compensation Survey, revealing in-depth data on income and pay rates in the language services industry. We discuss how to compete as a translator and I learn more about ATA's long history.
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Apr 1, 2022
Report recommends providing language support training to UK prisoners
The Bell Foundation, a UK-based charity organization specializing in language education, has published a report highlighting the need for better language access services in the UK’s criminal justice system.
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Mar 31, 2022
First Nations provides grants for Native American language revitalization projects
Six Native American tribes and organizations have received grants that will go toward language revitalization programs that foster immersion education in Native American languages.
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Mar 30, 2022
ATA outlines pay rates for language industry professionals in 58-page report
The American Translators Association (ATA) has released the sixth edition of the ATA Compensation Survey, revealing in-depth data on income and pay rates in the language services industry.
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Mar 30, 2022
Running a business in Ukraine in wartime | Interview with Tetyana Struk
MultiLingual's Stefan Huyghe sits down with Tetyana Struk, owner of the Ukrainian LSP Linguistic Center, for a discussion on her situation in Ukraine.
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Mar 30, 2022
Two new languages in Microsoft Translator: Somali and Zulu
Today, Microsoft is adding two new languages to Translator’s ever-growing list of languages—Somali and Zulu! Somali and Zulu text translation is available now in the Microsoft Translator apps, Office, and Translator for Bing.
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Mar 29, 2022
Weekly Review — March 25, 2022 — Jonathan Otis
This week I'm talking with Jonathan Otis, the Director of Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) and Growth Strategy at Nimdzi, talking about the very busy first quarter of 2022.
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Mar 29, 2022
Troy Kotsur secures second Oscar for Deaf community
At the 74th Academy Awards ceremony Troy Kotsur took home the Oscar for best supporting actor, portraying Deaf fisherman and father Frank Rossi in CODA. He is the second member of the Deaf community to win an Oscar.
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Mar 25, 2022
Microsoft introduces updates to Microsoft Translator
Earlier this week Microsoft announced a new upgrade to its machine translation software, Microsoft Translator, which utilizes Z-code.
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Mar 24, 2022
Duolingo reports 485% increase in Ukrainian learners
The number of Duolingo users learning Ukrainian increased by 485% in the weeks following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The company will be donating all of its ad revenue from Ukrainian learners to organizations helping Ukrainian refugees.
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Mar 23, 2022
UK language service professionals form Ukraine Language Support Task Force
In an effort to help Ukrainian refugees who settle in the United Kingdom, six organizations of language professionals have come together to form the Ukraine Language Support Task Force, which recently created a series of translation templates for important documents to aid refugees who arrive in the country get settled.
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Mar 23, 2022
Interpreter Intelligence and VoiceBoxer join the Boostlingo fold
The acquisitions bring a suite of new capabilities to the Boostlingo brand. Interpreter Intelligence specializes in interpreter management and interpretation delivery software, while VoiceBoxer delivers remote simultaneous interpretation (RSI) technology.
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Mar 22, 2022
One of the Biggest Multilingual Shows Ever – Pachinko
Not only does the show need to have an all-Asian cast, but it also needed to be told in three languages: Korean, Japanese, and English, as its characters migrated across the world.
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Mar 21, 2022
Eight tips to launch your app abroad
So you have a dream of expanding your business beyond national borders, but the rest of your management team is out of the loop. Getting organized to sell your app abroad requires a roadmap. Here are eight stops you don’t want to miss.
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Mar 17, 2022
Hong Kong legal system ditches English translations
A recent South China Morning Post report suggests that Hong Kong’s legal system has not been adequately transparent about providing English-language judgments in recent months.
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Mar 16, 2022
LocLunch Founder organizes global music festival to help Ukraine
Recognizing the humanitarian disaster and tremendous need for funds, the benefit Artists for Ukraine music festival launches this coming weekend to feature Ukrainian and international musicians.