In Technology, Things Never Slow Down
I am of an age where I can recall the pre-email intra- and extra-office communications process. Both were served by what is now called...
Considerations in choosing an enterprise-level TMS
It can be difficult to put the variety of offerings into context simply by studying and comparing marketing materials or feature lists. Begin instead with a list of your own criteria. Enterprise customers may be interested in TMS for a variety of reasons, including automation, cost savings, transparency, process ownership, branding consistency across business units, improved context, increased speed of workflow, multivendor support and the list goes on. How do you choose?
Commenting on JSON files in Passolo
If you are localizing JSON files using Passolo 2016, they’ve added a feature that you may be unaware of. With this new functionality, JSON...
Today’s new machine translation releases
Our January 2018 machine translation (MT) issue has just gone online, prominently featuring a host of new case studies on neural MT. It happens...
Conversational UI Language Design at LocWorld35
Conversational UI localization and language design skills are central to a great user experience. CUI means we moved from a "user"-centric concept of design to a human-centric one. After all, what could be more "natural" that talking to a computer? Both humans and computers "converse" in dialog, and it's the language design knowledge for such a conversation that's critical to delivering a natural, human-like interaction between the two.
Localizing mobile apps with over-the-air updates
The digital version of our issue on mobile apps just hit the internet, so if you’re a subscriber, check it out. Meanwhile, here’s a bonus...
Career question: Do I really need to learn Trados?
(with recommendations influenced by analysis of 200+ job postings)
As an employer and a professor, I have often heard the question, “Do I need to...
Google Translate’s deep AI upgrade represents the future of machine translation
Artificial intelligence may seem like science fiction, but it’s technically existed for decades. In 1951, students at the University of Manchester created a program...
Language at the ❤ of Conversational Interfaces
A Chat About Language and UI
Chatbots and conversational interfaces are all the rage right with startups, VCs, innovators and users alike. Messenger apps have surpassed...