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Leveraging Data to Drive Results
Every team has data, but do they know how to use it to their advantage? In the global market, using this knowledge to make better decisions demonstrates expertise while allowing your team to work smarter and faster. Join Business Intelligence Director Declan O’Droighneain as he shares United Language Group’s (ULG) BI journey and hear how analytics provided solutions to various challenges.
ULG is a language service provider providing translation, localization, and interpretation services across the world to clients from varied industries. Looking to transform BI capabilities, they implem...
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Flitto Localization Enters Japanese Market with ‘Flitto Enterprise,’ a…
Seoul, July 20, 2023: Flitto Localization, the professional translation business division of Flitto Inc., South Korea’s leading language service provider, announced the official launch of Flitto Enterprise in the Japanese market.
Flitto Enterprise is a multilingual translation management system for corporate clients that offers a comprehensive user interface where clients can start translation projects, receive quotations, track real-time progress of ongoing projects, and manage previous projects all in one place.The platform also facilitates streamlined communicatio...
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Celebrating Success: E4NET Secures a Place in the Top 30 Language Service…
SEOUL, July 18, 2023 - E4NET has been named for the fourth consecutive year in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region's Top 30, in the rankings of 'Language Service Providers' announced by the global market research specialist, CSA Research (https://csa-research.com/).
CSA Research determines its annual rankings based on multiple indicators, such as revenue and staff size, from language service companies worldwide. E4NET's consistent presence in the Top 30 since 2020 has been recognized as a testament to its steady growth.
E4NET operates a systematic and flexibl...
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2nd International Conference "Translation and Cultural Sustainability:…
The aim of this second gathering is to discuss the numerous challenges, research and development avenues and new scenarios (physical, technological as well as social and cultural) that we face in the field of Translation and Interpreting, be they in professional, research, intercultural mediation or teaching-learning activities.
6 keynote lectures, 5 roundtable discussions (including on the translation/localization industry), and 5 parallel sessions for papers.
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GALA to Showcase Global Expertise and Inspire at Going Global Live LA
SEATTLE, USA -- The Globalization and Localization Association (GALA) is delighted to announce its participation as an exhibitor and keynote presenter at Going Global Live LA, the premier event for businesses seeking to expand their reach globally. The event will take place 20 - 21 September 2023 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. GALA's prominent presence is set to bring a wealth of knowledge and insights to attendees.
As an exhibitor, GALA will showcase its commitment to fostering excellence in the language industry, connecting professionals, and promoting collaboration on a ...
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GALA Announced as Bronze Sponsor for IV Language Industry Conference in Latin…
SEATTLE, USA -- The Globalization and Localization Association (GALA), the leading global nonprofit trade association for the language industry, is delighted to announce its participation as the bronze sponsor for the upcoming IV Language Industry Conference in Latin America (CLINT) hosted by Translated in Argentina. The event is scheduled to take place on 01 - 02 September 2023, in the beautiful city of Córdoba, Argentina.
#CLINT2023 promises to be a unique opportunity for attendees to explore the latest trends, innovations, and challenges in the language industry. The conference wil...
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GALA Champion Luis Miguel (AvantPage)
GALA Champion Luis Miguel is the CEO at Avantpage, Inc. He is responsible for Avantpage's mission to provide immigrants with the opportunity to reach their American dream. Luis is passionate about helping clients communicate effectively with immigrants in language they can both understand. With over 20 years of leadership experience in the translation industry, Luis works to the benefit of clients and the immigrant community.
Watch this interview in which Luis discusses his career in localization, his company's values and the importance of volunteering.
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Going Global Live Expands into Los Angeles on the 20th & 21st of September…
Going Global Live has arrived in LA! It will be running alongside The Business Show and showcasing hundreds of products and services for businesses that are looking to expand internationally, export products, or set up overseas operations.
Across the two days, the show will welcome an audience of 6,000 SMEs and startups, 150 exhibitors, 100 insightful seminars and interactive masterclasses, informative live panels led by industry experts, and endless networking opportunities. Going Global Live provides you with a fast track of information sharing all you need to know about trading in ...
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Successful women in the software industry - Girls in ICT Day at memoQ
Worldwide, only 28 per cent of workers in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) are women; in Hungary, this figure is even lower: more than 90 per cent of those working in engineering, science and ICT - the fastest growing and best-paid sectors - are men. It is precisely for this reason that every year on Girls in ICT Day, the Association of Hungarian Women in Science gives secondary school-age girls the opportunity to challenge themselves and gain insight into professions once considered the preserve of men, by visiting companies in these fields. This year, present and futur...
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Translating Politeness from English to Hindi
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Despite the multitude of linguistic differences between all the languages of the world, they all have one thing in common and that is that they contain levels of politeness, making politeness a universal language factor. Since politeness is socio-culturally determined, the context in which a polite request or statement is made can have devastating consequences when translating from a target language into a source language if not done correctly. For example, inadequate levels of politeness may lead to conflict and misu...
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Problems With Text-to-Speech Conversion for Asian Languages
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Text-to-speech conversion systems are used to convert text into speech that comes as close as possible to the speech of a native speaker of the language reading that text. Prime quality text-to-speech conversion has been the focus of researchers for more than two decades and we can see this from the text-to-speech converters available today. The needs for text-to-speech conversion are many. To mention some: telephone response systems, computer interfaces, reading for the blind and other text-to-speech system...
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Acolad partners with Easygenerator to boost e-learning portfolio
Acolad will now support Easygenerator with e-learning content localization for Easygenerator’s customers, all the while adding greater value to Acolad’s own e-learning services with access to this state-of-the-art tool.
July 13, 2023 - Acolad, global leader in content and language solutions, has just entered an agreement with Easygenerator, the award-winning e-learning authoring solution. This collaboration enables Easygenerator users to effortlessly access Acolad's services for translating their global e-learning content, while bringing greater added-value to Acolad’s...
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Translated Levels Up Adaptive MT with Expanded Document Context
The company's machine translation (MT) system now leverages up to 100,000 words of document content to provide translation suggestions, drastically reducing the time to edit MT suggestions. The upgrade is available at no additional cost to translators and clients.
ROME, July 12, 2023 – Translated, a leading provider of AI-powered language solutions, today announced a significant expansion to its document-level adaptation, a standout feature of ModernMT, the company’s award-winning adaptive machine translation (MT) system. ModernMT can now leverage up to 100,000 words of document content...
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Calendar of Events for the Localization Institute
Exciting news! We have recently launched a new page on our website called Calendar of Events, which is designed to provide our followers with easy access to all the upcoming events, both virtual and in-person.
The Calendar of Eve...
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Business Agility: Are We Ready for the Transformation?
Today we are living through a time of accelerated change at various levels. In one way or another, the world is no longer the same. It is now characterized by uncertainty and rapid changes. How can our organizations adapt to this complex world?
The traditional organizations we all know were designed for a different world. Bosses used to control their “subordinates”. Presenteeism and the perfect execution of tasks were valued. Each professional was concerned only with their task, which led to rigid structures, silos, and bureaucracies. Traditional organizations ...
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Practical use cases of LLMs in Localization
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It’s been over six months since the explosion of OpenAI’s chatGPT. What has changed in the localization world so far?
In this webinar, we will escape from the buzz and will focus on actual implementations developed by the industry. Then, we will describe solutions that could be implemented in the short and mid-term. Finally, we will discuss what the future looks like.
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How to Create a Successful Localization Process in 2023
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In today’s globally connected world, localization is crucial to a company’s expansion strategy. And yet, businesses setting up their first localization process – or overhauling their existing approach – are quickly overwhelmed by an overabundance of information, tools, and available language service providers (such as content translation agencies).
Companies without dedicated translation resources, such as an in-house translation manager or a translation department, can be especially ove...
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Loading Chinese Fonts on Your Multilingual Website
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Loading Chinese fonts can be an overwhelming task, however, using your client’s native language is detrimental to being successful in foreign markets. We’ve discussed the topic already and you can read more about that here. Today we will take a deep dive into the technical issues on the way to having your content reach your Chinese audience in the best way possible and in particular loading Chinese fonts.
The Problem With Loading Chinese Fonts
If you’ve never been faced with the task...
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Employee Ownership Trust (EOT) as Exit Strategy - Interview with Jesper Sandberg
In May 2023 Sandberg Translation Partners became an employee-owned trust (EOT). We interviewed Jesper Sandberg, founder and Executive Chairman of the company, to find out what exactly an EOT framework is, why this could be a viable exit strategy for many small-to-medium language service providers, and more.
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A career in localization and building Sandberg Translation Partners
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Language Inspired
Language Inspired was born from a deep love for languages and cultures. Our local teams of linguists, translators, revisors, copywriters, localization engineers, along with other skilled linguistic professionals, are all united by a shared mission to connect people worldwide with the brands they cherish.
We believe that everyone deserves access to information in their native language. Therefore, we provide and stand by the agile localization model, which offers our clients the dedication of an in-house team with the flexibility and speed of an outsourced agency. Our approach has helped over 2...
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BeLazy’s Email Assistant is now powered by ChatGPT
BeLazy's latest software update brings a new integration with ChatGPT, one of the most popular large language models today. The company has worked hard to enhance its machine learning-driven Email Assistant feature - which checks the content of emails to determine whether there is a potential translation job - with this AI technology.
The integration with ChatGPT takes the information extraction skills of the feature to new levels, making it much more accurate and reliable. Thanks to AI power, the system has become much better at identifying key variables (project name, deadline, source lan...
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Impacts of Global Migration Trends on Language Access in Healthcare
As critical, frontline industries prepare to meet the challenges that will be posed by surges in immigration in coming decades, language access strategies will need to incorporate innovative and strategic approaches to meeting the needs of their linguistically diverse constituencies.
This webinar draws on experiences and evidence in the US healthcare and immigration sectors to highlight ways in which global migration trends and emerging technologies are impacting the global language services industry and the way language services are delivered, including:
1) decentralized access to Inter...
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ChatGPT and Bard: Our Experience Being Cautious Early Adopters
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At Win & Winnow, we are early technology adopters, and we believe in leveraging technology to offer better and faster language services to our clients. That is why we love the new horizons the AI industry is widening. However, we understand the need to proceed with caution, especially when it comes to data security.
In this article, we will present some examples of how we have begun to use AI tools such as ChatGPT and Bard without compromising our data.
How Do We Use ChatGPT in Combinatio...