No Icelandic for Disney+
Popular streaming service Disney+ has launched in Iceland, but not a single one of the movies it offers has been localized into Icelandic.
Companies that...
Hospital adapts language plan after LEP deaths
Latino patients who don't speak English are 35 percent more likely to die from covid-19, Brigham and Women’s Hospital research suggests. Located in Boston,...
Microsoft Adds Inuktitut, but is that good?
Microsoft Translator has added Inuktitut, but is that a good thing?
“Any new tool to encourage language use and learning — especially in Inuktitut —...
4Q revenue up for some LSPs, says GALA
The Globalization and Localization Association (GALA), an international trade group for language services providers (LSP) and their clients, has released its fourth quarter (Q4)...
One Year In, Kinyarwanda Google Translate Still Flawed
One year ago this month, Google Translate added Kinyarwanda — a language principally spoken in Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Tanzania. And...
Weekly Shorts | January 29, 2021
Daily News reports on "low" interpreter wages
This Sunday, New York Daily News reported on language services provider (LSP) Linguistica International paying what the paper calls...
Virtual LocWorld Kicks Off
Industry conference Localization World officially kicks off its second virtual version today. Not to be daunted by coronavirus lockdowns, LocWorldWide43 follows up on the...
12 Top Language Industry Podcasts to Listen to in 2021
According to podcast production company Podcast Insights, more than 850,000 separate podcasts are out there in the world, waiting to be listened to today....
Weekly Shorts | January 22, 2021
TransPerfect revenue up 11.5 percent
TransPerfect has announced a 2020 year-end revenue of 852 million USD. This is a roughly 11.5 percent increase over 2019's...