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Post Editing, Katie Botkin
Poems from the Edge of Extinction, Katie Botkin
Localizing Employee Communications, Libor Safar
Localization Business School: Game yourself to the top, Andrew Lawless
Off the Map: Growing global challenges to content creation, Kate Edwards
Essential data to ensure that your next game is multilingual, Rebecca Ray
So you want to be a games localizer, Tugdual Delisle
Game quality essentials, Daria Tvorilova
Design and evolution of the localization pipeline in Snowdrop, Virginia Boyero
The future is here, Cristina Anselmi, Inés Rubio
Localizing a whole new Western world, Loreto Fueyo
Insider secrets to breaking into the Chinese game market, George Tong
Gender and the Italian localization of Tomb Raider, Mirco Carlini
Why localization without personalization misses the mark, Scott Abel
XLIFF mixed with XML functionalities, Angelica Zerfaß
Français libre, Ingrid Cruz

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How to reduce localization costs in six steps

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March 24, 2020

How to integrate cultural distance into your app development

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March 16, 2020

Book Review

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Why localization without personalization misses the mark

Getting content wrong means missing out on new revenue streams worth $1.7 trillion to $3 trillion, according to an estimate by McKinsey & Company analysts. When you make it inconvenient for consumers to find the information they need, they’re likely to turn to a web search engine or a virtual assistant for help.

Scott Abel
MultiLingual March/April 2020

Speech: An old frontier and a new approach

Speech is one of the fundamental modes of linguistic communication. It’s so close to unconscious, mainstream society only notices it when it’s missing. We call our industry a “language industry,” yet the majority of all our tools and methods are text based. Even the most famous language tool from all of history, the Rosetta Stone, is a scribe’s aide — a rock with textual information in three written languages.

Gilbert Segura
MultiLingual January/February 2020