Translation

Good Translation Isn’t Free

Good Translation Isn’t Free

Paying for high-quality translation services ensures that you are able to connect and understand others and be understood in return, without looking foolish or being misunderstood.

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Transcription and Translation: The Rise of the Machines
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Transcription and Translation: The Rise of the Machines

While we are extremely close to machines being able to understand monotonous, clear English spoken by a single speaker, problems arise when you have recordings with groups of people, difficult audio, and slang and broken English.

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Does Size Matter in a Translation Company?
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Does Size Matter in a Translation Company?

We all have our strengths and weaknesses, and translators are no different. Because of this, knowing your translators personally and matching their strengths to certain projects should be a consideration for all companies.

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Why Businesses Should Translate Their Materials
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Why Businesses Should Translate Their Materials

In the United States, business materials are usually exclusively in English, even though we’re living through a period of non-English language growth that will only increase in the future. That’s millions of consumers businesses might not be reaching.

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The Seri Language: Recent Growth Against the Odds
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The Seri Language: Recent Growth Against the Odds

In contrast to most languages with few speakers, the Seri language has actually grown over the last century. While there were believed to be just 200 Seri people in the 1920s, as of 2015 it is estimated that there are between 600 and 1,000 native speakers.

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Dialects of Sign Language: Black ASL
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Dialects of Sign Language: Black ASL

With many ignorant of the fact that separate forms of sign language exist in different countries, there’s even less education on the different dialects that populate specific sign language families.

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We Are Still Here: The Yuchi Language Project
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We Are Still Here: The Yuchi Language Project

Yuchi is a fascinating language. It is not known to be related to any other language on the planet, and there was no written alphabet until the 1970s. But, as of 2014, only four first-language Yuchi speakers were still alive.

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4 Major Problems With the Translation Industry
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4 Major Problems With the Translation Industry

The translation industry is booming. But are those in need of translation really getting the best service? Let’s look at some problems that are currently plaguing the industry as a whole, and then at how some are doing things right.

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Your App Must Be Multilingual

Your App Must Be Multilingual

It is incredibly easy to translate and localize your apps for new markets. Better yet, you don’t have to keep paying or pay per customer. You just pay for a translation once, and that’s it.

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Sports and Translation: Bringing the World’s Biggest Sport to All
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Sports and Translation: Bringing the World’s Biggest Sport to All

What’s evident is that while soccer is itself a kind of language, there are still a lot of areas where the existence of multiple languages is causing issues. Translation can help solve these problems.

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