Tag: language
Emergency services dispatcher hung up on Spanish-speaking caller in fatal fire,...
Lehigh County, in the eastern US state of Pennsylvania, is the subject of a lawsuit filed in federal court on October 20 alleging, among...
What Can AI Teach us about the Human Brain?
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) believe that artificial intelligence (AI)-powered language models may...
Babbel Set to List on Frankfurt Stock Exchange
Babbel, the popular Berlin-based online language learning platform, announced Sept. 7 that it would list on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (FSE) this year, according...
Why Language Service Experts Need to Think Twice Before Saying Localization...
A common saying in the language industry is that localization is best when it goes unnoticed. This reflects important lessons learned from the many...
OpenAI Develops English to Code Translation System
On Aug. 10, OpenAI released an improved version of its Codex AI model to developers — Codex AI can translate commands written in natural,...
The Need for Multilingual Science-Focused Content
It’s no secret that the recent COVID-19 pandemic has shed light on the importance of science literacy and the problems surrounding limited language access...
When Doctors Double as Medical Interpreters
An anthropological study published earlier this year in Sage Journals suggests that hospitals in the United States may be asking a bit extra of...
What makes a language foreign?
Minari, a film by Korean-American filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung, won the award for best foreign language film at the Golden Globe awards on Sunday,...
It’s All Greek to Us!
It may have passed unremarked by many, but February 9th was International Greek Language Day, a day to celebrate the language that has contributed...
Swiss Supreme Court — Now in English?
The Swiss Supreme Court may soon accept English as one of the languages it will draft in arbitrations, as part of the Swiss Parliament’s...
Vive La French Tech! Chatbots, French Style
Conversational UI, that natural interaction between human and technology, is a hot topic worldwide, and the localization requirements for creating a great contextual natural user experience are fascinating and challenging, none more so than in the case of chatbots.
Catch the Pidgin at the BBC: Digital Flight of Fancy?
So what is pidgin, exactly? The BBC describe it as "a mix of English and local languages enabling people who do not share a common language to communicate".