Translation technology

Website translation has long been viewed as essential for companies wanting to consolidate their international business. However, the recent pandemic and the resulting focus on digital working for companies across the world has made website translation – or website localisation as it is sometimes called – even more crucial for success. Those who previously lagged…

After a hard day’s work there is nothing better than getting home and popping on your dressing gown, or your bathrobe (…or is it your housecoat?), getting comfortable on the sofa, or couch…or should that be settee (?!), and then tucking into a barm, or a cob…or even a bread roll or muffin! All these…

The demand for remote interpreting software has increased by more than 200% since March of this year, according to translation thinktank Common Sense Advisory. Businesses have had to find solutions to the problem of having discussions, conferences and meetings in different languages during the travel restrictions brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, and there are…

At this time, more than ever, a company needs to communicate effectively and engage with its employees, wherever in the world they may be located, and a key success factor will be to communicate with them in their native language, which is where e-learning localisation becomes crucial. Whilst business for many may be experiencing a…

Machine translation (MT) is nothing new, with the first live demonstration done back in the 1950s. But as Google Translate and similar products prove, MT output has become usable and accessible for anyone with a reliable Internet connection. This technology (usually enterprise-level machine translation engines) is used extensively in the translation industry for certain types…

Now is an exciting time for the translation industry. With such massive technological developments taking place year after year, the traditional image of a translator sitting at their desk, sheets of paper everywhere and a well-thumbed dictionary to hand is, without doubt, a thing of the past. Nowadays, it’s all cloud-based glossaries, real-time translation memory…

  With the launch of Skype Translator, technology has taken its first steps into a future where humans can speak in any language at the click of a mouse button. Automated interpretation of spoken language may sound hugely ambitious but Microsoft has invested billions in Skype since its acquisition in 2011, and the early results…