Tag: Mobile Apps

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A User Experience Approach to Tone-of-Voice Adaptation

The author presents a case study from ride-hailing app inDrive, detailing how the company addressed a problem with its Spanish-language localization strategy. After analyzing peer apps and gathering user feedback, inDrive was able to successfully adjust its messaging for Latin America and Spain.
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Five Rookie Mistakes to Avoid When Taking a Website (or App) Global

A web globalization consultant describes the top five most common website and app localization mistakes to avoid in order to increase user engagement and create a positive user experience. These include underlocalization, overlocalization, and use of inappropriate photographs.

KUDO Releases Mobile App v3.0 With Expanded Multilingual Capabilities

KUDO Mobile App v3.0 introduces Meet Now, AI speech translation, and new participation modes, enabling real-time multilingual access on mobile.

SpeakShift Revolutionizes Global Communication With AI-Powered Language Translation App

This innovative AI-powered app provides instant translations in over 133 languages, aiming to connect people worldwide by breaking down language barriers.

The presence of Catalan in language learning apps

Catalan, my language, is again in a sadly paradoxical situation. While it is spoken by 10 million people in the world, is native in parts of four European states, and is the only language with official status in Andorra —which means it is recognized by the United Nations— it suffers discrimination that is difficult to understand either in qualitative or quantitative terms.

Musixmatch is making podcasts more accessible

Musixmatch is venturing into a less melodic realm of audio content: podcasts. To help make podcasts more accessible — both for those who are deaf or hard-of-hearing and individuals who simply wish to read, rather than listen to, the content in a podcast — Musixmatch is generating transcriptions of podcasts.

Translated’s New Shopify App Helps Merchants Expand to Global Markets

Translated is proud to announce the release of its official Shopify app that enables the platform's users to take advantage of the same powerful symbiosis between professional native speaking human translators and AI -powered machine translation services.

Interpreters Unlimited offers Uber-like app to book USA interpreters

Interpreters Unlimited (IU) has developed and released IU Customer App, a proprietary program that allows professionals and businesses to book foreign language interpreters and American Sign Language interpreters in-person, over the phone, or via remote video.

Launch of communication app Global Talk marks an end to communication through pantomime

Interpretation service provider Global Talk is launching a multilingual communication app for the Flemish healthcare sector this week. The app enables care providers to ask patients initial medical questions in twelve languages. These are basic questions which are further explored as necessary.