Should Translators Be on Clubhouse?
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, translation is in the house – the Clubhouse, that is. Billed as the cool new social media app...
Mars Landing Broadcast in Spanish
Mars rover mission Perseverance lands on Mars tomorrow and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) plans to broadcast its arrival in Spanish. The...
Boise government to up language access
The city of Boise, Idaho is currently looking to improve language access, according to local news site BoiseDev. Right now, the municipal government purchases...
Localization Metrics and Return on Investment
While humankind was still grappling with the new reality of the pandemic, LocWorldWide42 (LWW42) was presented to localization professionals and other participants attending virtually...
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?
It's one thing to train a machine translation engine and quite another to continue improving it. This is Inuktitut speakers' concern.
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...