Organization
Argo Translation, Inc.
Argo Translation has been providing exceptional tailored translation solutions for more than 29 years — whether it’s to help companies sell more products to an international audience or to clearly engage with employees through a variety of languages. With a focus on communicating with the client at a personal level, even as technology continues to be more advanced, we continue to uphold the same spirit of great customer service that the company began with as we continue to create understanding in every language around the world....
Event
Headless TMS: Evolving the localization ecosystem to break free, scale, and…
Are you curious about the latest innovation in localization technology? Join us for a webinar on headless TMS, where we will explore this cutting-edge concept and its potential applications for localization buyers, language service providers, and localization technology vendors.
In this webinar, Jose Palomares (Coupa) is joined by Kirti Vashee (Translated), Johan Sporre (IKEA), and István Lengyel (BeLazy) to break down the complex concept of headless TMS and explain it in easy-to-understand terms. They cover its origins, what it looks like, and most importantly, how it can address the chal...
Press_release
Terra Localizations Launches Brand Refresh
Last week, Terra Translations’ video game division, Tera Localizations, announced the launch of a brand refresh that can now be seen throughout their website, social media platforms, and marketing materials.
Terra was proud to partner with Savage Solutions, a Milwaukee-based creative agency that works with emerging brands specializing in positioning their brand for growth, in particular from a messaging and visual standpoint, building or rebuilding a brand to put it out to the world.
The previous website was characterized by a space theme that burst with beautiful ill...
Press_release
Welocalize achieves ISO 14001 Certification to Further Strengthen its…
The seventh ISO certification in the language service provider’s quality portfolio recognizes a commitment to reducing its environmental impact and implementing sustainable practices.
Welocalize, a global leader in the language services industry, has achieved ISO 14001:2015 certification, showcasing its commitment to environmental excellence and sustainability.
ISO 14001 is a globally recognized standard that sets guidelines for environmental management systems (EMS). It requires companies to implement a structured approach to managing their environmental impact and reducing the...
Press_release
Win & Winnow Renewed Its Carbon-Neutral Certification
[May 2023] – Win & Winnow, a translation and localization company, proudly announces its renewed carbon-neutral certification. Demonstrating its unwavering commitment to environmental sustainability, the company has taken proactive steps to offset its carbon emissions and pave the way for a better future.
By offering high-quality translations, interpreting services, and localization solutions, the company contributes to global communication and information accessibility. However, Win & Winnow understands that these activities have an environmental impact and is determine...
Press_release
TAUS-memoQ Partnership Enables Machine Translation Quality Estimation in memoQ…
Amsterdam and Budapest, May 31, 2023 – TAUS, a leading provider of human-powered language data for AI solutions, and memoQ, known for their unparalleled collaborative translation environment and TMS, have partnered to make the TAUS DeMTTM Estimate API available in the new memoQ release, enabling machine translation quality estimation.
TAUS DeMTTM Estimate API seamlessly connects to existing content workflows and provides real-time quality scores customized with user data so that the results match their organization for accuracy, tone, and authenticity. With the release of memoQ 10.1, Esti...
Blog
GALA Champion Johan Botha
In this series of interviews, GALA members share their insights on the pursuit of globalization & localization.
For more from GALA Experts, subscribe to our YouTube Channel
This month's GALA Champion is Johan Botha, Director of Folio Online. Watch the interview, in which Johan talks about his career in localization and shares his insights on the African market.
Here are a few snippets from the interview.
Starting out in localization
My father is an Afrikaans teacher, so languages have always been in my genes, but I actually studied both Afrikaans lin...
Press_release
Contentech Announces Participation in LocWorld 2023
Dubai - May 30th, 2023:
As a globally recognized leader in multilingual content solutions, Contentech is excited to announce its participation in the highly anticipated LocWorld Conference 2023, set to take place in the vibrant city of Malmö, Sweden, from June 6-8.
Contentech’s participation in the mega industry trade show comes in line with the brand’s commitment to staying at the forefront of innovation and collaboration in the localization industry.
With an extensive track record of outstanding successes within the MEA region and beyond, Contentech will take the oppo...
Article
Mobile App Localization - Flutter From a Business Decision Perspective
Sign up for our newsletter on globalization and localization matters.
BLUF - Bottom Line Up Front
It has long been known that mobile applications are a high-impact market, one that is still growing exponentially every year. It has also been long-standing knowledge that localization is an important marketing force multiplier, but is all too often overlooked and treated as an afterthought. Furthermore, implementing localization in something as complex as a mobile application presents a unique set of challenges with it: developers need to allocate extra time and effo...
Press_release
Argos Multilingual Achieves Silver-Level Sustainability Rating from EcoVadis…
Boulder, CO – May 25, 2023 – Argos Multilingual, a leading global language solutions provider, is proud to announce that it has achieved a Silver-level sustainability rating from EcoVadis. This rating is based on four pillars of environmental, labor practices, fair business practices and sustainable procurement.
“We are thrilled to receive this recognition from EcoVadis,” said Véronique Özkaya, CEO of Argos Multilingual. “This rating serves as an important milestone for us in our journey towards becoming a more sustainable company.”
The EcoVadis sustainability ratings help ...
Press_release
Welocalize Beta Testing Enhanced Workflow for Managing Expansion of…
New functionality will support large corporations by leveraging generative AI to automate complex high-volume content, quality evaluation, and routing of work.
NEW YORK, NY, USA -- Content supply chains will be profoundly disrupted as corporations adopt generative AI technology to create marketing, product, and other forms of content.
For over two decades, leading language services provider Welocalize has used artificial intelligence (AI), particularly machine translation and neural language models, to meet the growing demand for translating large volumes of multilingual content.
Howe...
Blog
The Boardroom Beat #22 - The F word
Sign up for our newsletter on globalization and localization matters.
If you think exploring “Fun” is too fluffy for executive coaching, guess again. With startling frequency executives include the fun factor as they contemplate “next.” They have achieved gravitas, solidified their leadership style, mentored a legion of other talent. By conventional mores they have hit the success benchmarks. But a niggling alter ego in their psyche whispers that there is something more. I regularly partner with leaders making middle to late stage career decisions who delve i...
Article
Mobile App Localization - A Developer’s Illustrated Primer - Part 2
Sign up for our newsletter on globalization and localization matters.
In the first part of this series we looked at all the popular mobile app frameworks, and briefly described Flutter’s first-class support for quickly creating localized apps. Let us now examine this capability in more detail and discuss how it allows developers to move localization from an afterthought to something that’s built into the app from the outset. We’ll do that by looking at an actual localized application that caters to scuba divers looking for dive sites all around the world.
My goal with...
Event
Interpreting SIG - December 2023 Meeting
This SIG will work to identify the unique issues, needs, and challenges in the interpreting and technologies segment and will explore collaborative solutions to advance the interpreting sector as a whole. Meetings are not recorded.
GALA Special Interest Groups (SIGs) are member-only committees that connect members on topics of mutual interest and make meaningful contributions to GALA’s knowledge base. Learn more about participating in SIGs.
...
Event
Interpreting SIG - September 2023 Meeting
Join us this September for a valuable update and catch-up session! Agenda:
July Recap: A brief overview of our last meeting's highlights.
Upcoming Events: An outline of webinars and gatherings planned for the rest of the year.
SafeAI Updates: Discussions on the responsible use of AI in interpreting. It's an exciting and crucial topic!
Women in Loc Insights: Updates from our dedicated women in localization community.
We value your contributions and look forward to an engaging discussion.
About the Interpreting SIG
This SIG will work to identify the unique issues, needs, a...
Event
Interpreting SIG - August 2023 Meeting
This SIG will work to identify the unique issues, needs, and challenges in the interpreting and technologies segment and will explore collaborative solutions to advance the interpreting sector as a whole. Meetings are not recorded.
GALA Special Interest Groups (SIGs) are member-only committees that connect members on topics of mutual interest and make meaningful contributions to GALA’s knowledge base. Learn more about participating in SIGs.
...
Event
Interpreting SIG - July 2023 Meeting
This SIG will work to identify the unique issues, needs, and challenges in the interpreting and technologies segment and will explore collaborative solutions to advance the interpreting sector as a whole. Meetings are not recorded.
GALA Special Interest Groups (SIGs) are member-only committees that connect members on topics of mutual interest and make meaningful contributions to GALA’s knowledge base. Learn more about participating in SIGs.
...
Event
Audiovisual Localization SIG - December 2023 Meeting
Now that we've learned how to set up and prepare a project, set guidelines with the client, and record the product, it's time to prepare it for delivery. Agenda:
Post-production and asset QA
Asset preparation for customer delivery
Managing retakes and pick up
Focus point: Quality control for in audiovisual deliverables
About the Audiovisual Localization SIG
This SIG will work to demystify audiovisual localization, provide a forum for questions and concerns, and try to keep up with the ever-increasing rate of technological change. Meetings will be a mix of service and techno...
Event
The BWX Continuous Language Learning Engine That Could - Powered by GPT
Sign up for our newsletter on globalization and localization news and events.
What if you could work with a single beautiful feed that meshed together your glossaries, translation memories, and machine translation engines into elegant choices that minimize the time it takes to get your translations done?
This is available right now in Bureau Works, but don't take our word for it.
Come see for yourself this live demo with lots of Q&A and the opportunity to revolutionize your translation management.
...
Press_release
Acolad Digital is OpenText’s Partner Navigator Champion
Acolad’s exceptional performance in ensuring customer success was rewarded with this recognition by OpenText
Opentext has been Acolad’s partner for +25 years
May 17, 2023 – Acolad Digital - the business unit of Acolad group focusing on providing content and technology solutions to help brands achieve seamless and optimized digital experiences - has been recognized as OpenText’s Partner Navigator Champion, for their exceptional performance in exceeding shared business goals and their participation and success in the activities of the program.
The OpenText Pa...
Article
AI and GPT Chat DO NOT pose a threat to the Localization and Translation…
Sign up for our newsletter on globalization and localization matters.
In response to the highly debated topic that has recently surfaced regarding the emergence of AI-based language tools, such as GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) Chat, and the concern about the future of human translators and localization professionals, the team at Contentech would like to contribute with its perspective that a closer examination of the capabilities and limitations of these tools reveals that they are not a threat to the localization and translation industry at all.
One o...
Blog
Mobile App Development with Localization In Mind - Or, A Developer’s Illustrated…
Sign up for our newsletter on globalization and localization matters.
BLUF - Bottom Line Up Front
App localization is perceived like a complicated topic with many traps, but I can confidently say that it doesn’t need to be. There are a number of frameworks out there to help with app development in general, and the most popular ones offer at least some degree of localization support. However, not all of these are created equal. In this post, we will be taking a brief look at the four most popular mobile frameworks, with a special eye for their localization support.
The ...