Yamli – Arabic Without an Arabic Keyboard
NPR’s All Tech Considered has a great story about Yamli - a very cool technology helping users connect through Arabic.
You can use your regular...
Bowlingual 2.0
Japanese toymaker Takara Tomy has announced a new and improved version of the IgNobel-Prize-winning Bowlingual “translator” of dog-to-human communication. The device was displayed at...
Moving pictures: new tool claims to help build correct picto-translations
Edongba facilitates modern hieroglyph use.
Zmnsoft has released a Windows application allowing users to create documents and messages using Dongba hieroglyphs, the only hieroglyphic writing...
Clever toolbar for translators
The folks at Qabiria have put together a handy Firefox and Internet Explorer toolbar for translators.
Of course, being supplied by a consulting/translation house, the...
Nifty typing aid for Latin script characters
There is a free online editor for typing ‘special’ characters in Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, IPA (English), Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian,...
Google Translator Toolkit: Share and Share Alike?
By now, you have probably seen all sorts of chatter on Google’s new Translator Toolkit. Just as with anything Google does, it seems clean...
Getting It Sorted
A simple challenge to you: How do you alphabetically sort your translated XML or HTML content?
I’ve been to many L10n/I18n conferences, workshops, and sales...
Crowdsourced translation via cell phone
”...distributing questions to participants in such developing countries via text messages or audio clips could make certain tasks more economical, such as the translation...
DITA: The Obama of Global Content?
Is Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) the answer to all our content globalization problems? On its own, no. The big issues remain fundamentally the...