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Friday Roundup | November 27, 2020
SDI Media shortlisted for two Broadcast Tech Innovation Awards
SDI Media has been shortlisted for the two Broadcast Tech Innovation Awards for its remote recording...
Mario Bros Anniversary, Nintendo Localization Stumbles
Nintendo is celebrating the 35th anniversary of Super Mario Bros this year, but the game that centers around two fictional Italian plumbers may have...
Nuremberg Trials, 75 years of Simultaneous Interpretation
75 years after its first use at the Nuremberg Military Tribunals, simultaneous interpretation is still modeled largely after the process implemented by the Allies...
Friday Roundup | November 20, 2020
CPSL announces partnership with DreamTech
To step up efforts toward technological development and offer comprehensive digital solutions, Barcelona-based language service provider CPSL is embarking on...
Language Services Mean Access and Justice
We spoke with Karina Rodríguez about working as a language services provider in veterinary medicine, renters' rights, and childhood learning in California.
Friday Roundup | November 13, 2020
Lilt Labs opens registration for upcoming webinar, Rethinking Your Customer Engagement Strategy, with CSA Research
Join Lilt Labs next week when CSA Research shares insight...
MIT CSAIL and Reviving Lost Languages
Can the evolution of language inform machine translation models for extinct languages? Researchers at CSAIL think so. Jean-Francois Champollion did too.
If not for ancient...
CITLoB Elects 2020-2022 National Governing Body
In a statement, CITLoB president Sandeep Nulkar outlined the new body's mission to meet the unprecedented demand for Indic language services and cultivate global...
Washington Post Implementing Localization Solutions
As major news publications reckon with decreased readership, the Washington Post has turned to solutions that emphasize localization and regional outreach.
The Washington Post has...
Lionbridge AI Unit Acquired by Canadian Telecom
TELUS International, a digital customer experience division of Canadian telecom giant TELUS, agreed to acquire Lionbridge AI, the crowd-based training data and annotation platform...
Friday Roundup | November 6, 2020
Kathy Laster appointed chair of Australia's VITS Language Loop
Professor Kathy Laster, director of Victoria University’s Sir Zelman Cowen Centre, has been appointed chair of...
GALA Announces Candidates for Upcoming Board Election
The election features 18 candidates from several corners of the industry all making their case to fill the four open positions to the GALA...
Study from CMU Illuminates the Divided US Political Lexicon
As the US transitions into post-election fallout, a recent study from Carnegie Mellon University might demonstrate how language has defined the nation’s dividing lines.
Researchers...
Was Amazon’s Giant Translation Gaffe a Marketing Ploy?
“It felt like a huge prank,” said translation industry business consultant Anne-Marie Colliander Lind in a conversation about Amazon’s botched launch of amazon.se in...
Friday Roundup | October 30, 2020
SYSTRAN partners with TAUS to offer COVID Crisis Translation Models
SYSTRAN has struck a partnership with TAUS to provide global access to secure and accurate...
What Languages Will the New Constitution of Chile Reflect?
After this week's vote to compose a new constitution, a debate is occurring in Chile about whether Indigenous groups will be represented in the...
Insights from Managing Canadian Indigenous Language Projects
When we think of the translation landscape in Canada, the first thing that comes into many people’s mind is the unique English-French bilingual environment....
Lilt Hosts Successful Virtual Conference
Lilt, an AI-powered enterprise translation company, held its first Lilt Ascend virtual conference yesterday, October 22. The theme was localizing at scale in a...
Friday Roundup | October 23, 2020
LicenseLogix, Interpreters and Translators, Inc., and Network Support Co. form The Supply Change Alliance to aid minority entrepreneurs
LicenseLogix, LLC (LLX), Interpreters and Translators, Inc....
Calendar
Calendar
September
3rd International Translation Technology Summer School
September 3-7, 2018, Antwerp, Belgium
KU Leuven, www.arts.kuleuven.be/transtech-summerschool
Content Marketing World
September 4-7, 2018, Cleveland, Ohio USA
Content Marketing Institute, http://contentmarketingworld.com
ND Focus –...
In other words: Using terminology to facilitate humanitarian communication in Nigeria
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In other words: Using terminology to facilitate humanitarian communication in Nigeria
When I worked as a professional translator, back in the mists of time, I...
Resemble.ai Launches AI Tech That Mimics User Voice
The new voice localization AI from Resemble.ai will translate the user’s voice across languages, initially supporting English, French, German, Dutch, Italian, and Spanish.
Resemble.ai, which...
Jeju Province to Expand Language Services for Workers
Receiving thousands of requests for translation and interpretation services each year, the Jeju Province has decided to expand its language services to include seven...