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2015
The Tea Time Translation News #12
Every week, we go all over the Internet to find the best translation news We liked this article drawn from the English-speaking press this week: The translation process: art or science? (source: translatorsfamily.com) From a translator’s point of view, their job is kind of an Art, while from a project manager’s point of view, it is all about scientifically maximising efficiency. Even though the two perceptions…
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2015The Tea Time Translation News #11
Every week, we go all over the Internet to find the best translation news Here are some articles that interested us this week: Regional languages are the lynchpin to India’s Internet boom (source: Thehindu.com) The number of Internet users is growing rapidly in India. The country is actually expected to have the second largest Internet user base in the world by the middle of next year. If…
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2015The Tea Time Translation News #9
Every week, we go all over the Internet to find the best translation news We selected the following articles for our English-speaking audience this week: Found in Translation: Language tools for building a global audience (source: Youtubecreator.blogspot.co.uk) YouTube is available in 76 different languages and 2/3 of the people who watch a video come from outside of its creator’s home country. Therefore, to be sure…
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2015The Tea Time Translation News #7
Every week, we go all over the Internet to find the best translation news We selected those articles for our English-speaking audience this week: Why Data Should Guide Every App’s International Growth (source: Business2community.com) ASO, or App Store Optimisation, has its own rules to make international growth possible. We couldn’t agree more about the fact that localisation is the most important thing to think about when…
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2015The Tea Time Translation News #6
Every week, we go all over the Internet to find the best translation news Here are two articles we selected in the English-speaking press: Google Translate error sees Spanish town advertise clitoris festival (source: Theguardian.com) The Galician “Feira do Grelo” – “Rapini Festival” in English – was translated as “Feria Clítoris” in Spanish by … Google Translate. That’s not the end of the joke though as…
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2015The Tea Time Translation News #5
Every week, we go all over the Internet to find the best translation news Here are articles we specially selected for our English-speaking readers: LORELEI Imagines Rapid Automated Language Toolkit (source: Roboticstomorrow.com) Armed forces and humanitarian assistance often act in places where people speak such rare languages that there is no interprets nor automatic translation applications available to help them. LORELEI is a computational linguistics program…
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2015The Tea Time Translation News #4
Every week, we go all over the Internet to find the best translation news This week, the following articles caught our attention: Microsoft Translator for Windows 10 Mobile Exits Beta, Adds Full Universal App Features (source: News.softpedia.com) Microsoft Translator for Windows 10 Mobile is now in full swing, and users can now access all its features ranging from simple translations into 50 different languages to camera…
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2015The Tea Time Translation News #3
Every week, we go all over the Internet to find the best translation news This week, we wanted to share with our readers the following articles in English: Learning the lingo: Here’s how Google Translate copes with even the rarest languages (source: Zdnet.com) Among the 7,000 languages spoken in the world, 40% could disappear. Google thinks that the Internet is a way for them to…
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2015The Tea Time Translation News #1
Every week, we go all over the Internet to find the best translation news Here is what we found out for you this week in English: The art of proofreading Braille (source: Bostonglobe.com) Testimony of Pearcy, a young Braille proofreader from the USA, about how important her job still is in a digital society where audio versions increase. ‘Spring Awakening’ Melds Song and Sign Language (source:…