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Membership Office Hours (August 2023)
If you're new to GALA and want to learn how to make the most of your membership and get involved, register for Membership Office Hours. During this 30-minute call you will get an orientation to GALA and member benefits, have the opportunity to ask questions, and start connecting with other new members.
These meetings are open to members and non-members who want to learn more about GALA.
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Membership Office Hours (July 2023)
If you're new to GALA and want to learn how to make the most of your membership and get involved, register for Membership Office Hours. During this 30-minute call you will get an orientation to GALA and member benefits, have the opportunity to ask questions, and start connecting with other new members.
These meetings are open to members and non-members who want to learn more about GALA.
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The Impact of Generative AI in the Translation Industry and beyond
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We live in a world that is evolving so rapidly that we often feel overwhelmed by the number of innovations being introduced each week. We feel the pressure to incorporate them into our operations to maintain our company's competitive advantage. In the field of artificial intelligence (AI), the hype is at its peak, so the pressure is even greater. But the truth is that we are all learning, and the winners will be those who can execute faster. Don't believe everything and get your hands dirty!
For our indus...
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Congratulations! You’re going Global!
Unlock the secrets to your brand's international success
Expert speaker Hinde Lamrani will guide you through all the essentials you need to skyrocket your global growth journey:
The power of language in international markets
Understanding and catering to user preferences worldwide
Effective website localization strategies (and the consequences of untranslated websites)
Why international SEO is not SEO translation
CMS, TMS or both: the must-haves to your global marketing tech stack
To AI-translate or not to AI-translate
Scaling your team for international suc...
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Euro-Com International ranked as local leader in Benelux region
Renkum, the Netherlands, June 22, 2023
Nimdzi’s most popular the Nimdzi 100 (published Feb/March) lists the 100 largest language service providers (LSPs) in the world.
This year, for the first time, Nimdzi Insights has now also published a ranking in May of the top providers per geo region. The Nimdzi Geo Rankings are based on the Nimdzi 100 ranking of the largest LSPs in the world.
In this new Geo Ranking, the Holland based Euro-Com International is recognized as local leader in Benelux 2023 appearing in the top 10, along with larger LSP peers as Acolad and Jonckers.
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GALA Global - Call for Content 2023
Every quarter, GALA publishes a Call for Content to invite translation, localization, and interpreting professionals to share their expertise by creating and contributing relevant content.
Submitted content should be original, informative, and engaging. It should address topics relevant to the industry. This can include localization and interpreting best practices, emerging trends and technological advancements, case studies, and industry insights.
You can write a blog post, an article, present a webinar, moderate a panel discussion, or do an interview with us. Opportunities ...
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Welocalize Introduces First ChatGPT Plugin for Insight into the Quality of…
TranslationRater plugin for ChatGPT evaluates the language model’s translation and provides an instant rating.
Welocalize, a pioneer of tech-enablement within language services, announces the launch of its newest innovation: TranslationRater, a plugin for ChatGPT. A first in OpenAI's plugin store for ChatGPT, the new tool allows users to gain more insight into the quality of text translations provided by the language model or input by users.
The plugin works in a simple and efficient way. When a user prompts ChatGPT to translate a given text into a specified target la...
Article
The Vendor Manager Role in a Localization Team
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In the localization industry, everyone is familiar with the role of the vendor manager, particularly on the language service provider side.
Vendor managers are the individuals responsible for ensuring that providers have the best translation talent out there, building good relationships with them and ensuring that their needs are met and respected. But what about vendor managers on the buyer's side? What role do they play in their team? And how do you decide if your team needs one?
Vendor man...
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Hindi Translation Services for the Textile Industry
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India has a highly prominent textile industry that is growing from strength to strength. Major global fashion brands have approached multiple textile mills and textile recycling service providers to help them remain competitive in a global marketplace. Luckily, India is very capable of delivering to the highest standards.
However, with Hindi being the major language spoken in the country, many in the textile industry will require accurate and precise Hindi translation services to ensure that there i...
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CLEAR Global champions language inclusion for refugees on World Refugee Day…
Garden City, ID, USA—20 June 2023 - Refugees struggle with language barriers. Over 100 million people have been displaced worldwide, a staggering number. The need for inclusive language solutions has never been more pressing.
Aimee Ansari, CEO, CLEAR Global emphasizes the importance of language inclusion:
“Language is often overlooked. This means that language exclusion exacerbates the challenges faced by refugees. Today and every day, we celebrate the resilience and strength of refugees. It is also a time to recommit to our work to ensure that all refugees have access to the i...
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Where Advertising Goes, Money Follows: Opportunities for the Localization…
The internet that we experience today has been shaped by advertising that provided an easy and obvious way for companies to generate revenue. Its growth has been fueled by brands shifting a huge proportion of their marketing budgets into online ads, which became the main source of funding for most websites and social networks. Behind those digital ads, a market estimated at US $600 billion in 2023, there is a vast infrastructure designed to collect data events and target custom audiences with multitude of services.
In this webinar, Sabina Jasinska tries to demystify the complex structure of...
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Intento’s State of Machine Translation 2023 Report Evaluates 37 MT Engines…
Intento, the Enterprise Machine Translation Hub, and e2f, a language intelligence pioneer, teamed up to study the Machine Translation and Generative AI market and present the State of Machine Translation 2023 report (the seventh consecutive year for Intento).
This edition analyzes the performance of 37 MT Engines across 22 language pairs and 9 content domains, providing the latest overview of the rapidly evolving MT landscape.
Key highlights include:
● Out of the 37 Machine Translation Engines evaluated, 23 are best-performing in some language pairs and domains
● 5 Large Langua...
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Flitto Sets New Localization Milestone with Cutting-Edge 'Flitto AI+…
Flitto, a prominent language data and professional translation service provider from South Korea, recently announced the public beta launch of "Flitto AI+" service.
Flitto operates an integrated language platform with a global user base of 13 million, offering a diverse range of services such as AI translation, Crowdsourced Translation, and an engaging quiz-type reward program called Flitto Arcade. The platform utilizes Flitto's proprietary AI translation engine, which has been meticulously trained with a comprehensive collection of high-quality multilingual corpus data generated by crowds...
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AI Commoditization: Is the Machine Translation Industry Concerned?
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AI commoditization is now a confirmed fact for several AI domains. From a general perspective, the general public is constantly looking for freeware versions for their software needs, so there is a high expectation of freeware. At the same time, GAFA offer free services to monetize their users’ data.
Regarding the AI implementation part, the following parts of AI have been significantly commoditized because of low technological effort for the customer to access the technology, good quality result, and l...
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How to Lead Productive Translation Team Meetings
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Did you know that 71% of meetings are considered unproductive?
Translation team meetings are no exception and can be a pain in the neck. On the one hand, you often have busy and stressed managers of production, projects, or vendors. On the other hand, you have a brigade of translators trying to find quick solutions while drowning in the flood of daily assignments. So the goal is to bridge this gap and find a happy medium.
Digging deeper, the biggest problems of ineffective and unproductive meet...
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GlobalSaké In-Person Event + Party in San Francisco
GALA Members can get 20% off the event ticket using the code, InPerson20
GlobalSaké is excited to invite you to the Grand In-Person Industry event held on June 22 in San Francisco's historic landmark--The Presidio, at Edge & Node, House of Web3. If you'd like to learn more about the sponsorship and cultural performance opportunities at this event, email us at [email protected].
This event is a coming together multicultural celebration dedicated to The Global Outlook on the Cultural Code--New Markets' Insights. Spoiler alert: We'll have a Sake & matcha cocktails reception...
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Seattle Localization User Group MeetUp
Cultural Interoperability: The Biggest Challenge to the Metaverse and Beyond
As media and gaming spaces are the foundation for what is envisioned to be the forthcoming "metaverse", most of the current discourse is about technical interoperability, i.e., how we enable diverse platforms to seamlessly work together. However, this focus almost completely overlooks the most challenging aspect of cultural interoperability, i.e., how people from diverse worldviews and geographies will achieve equal access and common ground. This is especially problematic when our current world ...
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GLOBO Acquires LUNA, Delivering to Customers the World’s Most Empathically…
PHILADELPHIA - 2 June 2023 – GLOBO, the industry leader in health equity-focused language access, today announced it has acquired LUNA, the leading language services company in the midwest, to deliver the world’s most robust, data-driven and empathically-designed multilingual communication solution. Combined, the teams will represent the largest network of ASL interpreters in the nation.
American Sign Language (ASL) version of this announcement
Spanish version of this announcement
Together, GLOBO customers will benefit from LUNA’s on-site language expertise, robust interpreter n...
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Going Global Los Angeles
Going Global is back for 2023, arriving at The LA Convention Center on the 20th & 21st of September!
On the 20th & 21st of September, the leading event for taking your business overseas will be arriving in LA to equip business professionals with the tools they need to expand into international territory.
This year Going Global Live will be providing businesses with everything they need to grow internationally and trade overseas. From globally recognised brands through to world-class seminars hosted by leading professionals, this event will be the one stop shop for all bran...
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Sandberg announces transition to employee ownership
London, UK - June 7, 2023 - Sandberg Translation Partners, a leading UK-based language service provider specialising in the Nordic languages, has announced its transition to employee ownership. The move, which took place on May 31, 2023, represents a significant shift in the company's ownership structure and paves the way for a promising future.
Previously owned solely by Jesper Sandberg, the Founder and Chairman, and Anu Carnegie-Brown, the Managing Director, the shares of Sandberg Translation Partners are now owned by an employee ownership trust (EOT) on behalf of the current a...
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ATC-EUATC Ethical Business Summit
Welcome to the Ethical Business Summit!
What exactly is ethical, sustainable business for language service companies?
How can you build and grow a successful business while doing good for the environment, your team, your clients, and your suppliers? What do diversity, equity and inclusion mean in our multicultural and multilingual context?
The Ethical Business Summit is organised by the UK’s Association of Translation Companies in collaboration with the EUATC to bring language service company owners and managers from across the UK, Europe and the world together with sustainability...
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ATC-EUATC Ethical Business Summit
Welcome to the Ethical Business Summit!
What exactly is ethical, sustainable business for language service companies?
How can you build and grow a successful business while doing good for the environment, your team, your clients, and your suppliers? What do diversity, equity and inclusion mean in our multicultural and multilingual context?
The Ethical Business Summit is organised by the UK’s Association of Translation Companies in collaboration with the EUATC to bring language service company owners and managers from across the UK, Europe and the world together with sustainability...