Byte Level Research, a company dedicated to best practices in web and content globalization, has just released its 2018 Web Globalization Report Card. Below is a description of the report from its author, John Yunker. “The 2018 Web Globalization Report Card is the most ambitious report I’ve written so far and it sheds light on […]
How do you Translate Trump?
Photo by History in HD on Unsplash Much has already been written on the difficulty that translators have when they have to translate Donald Trump’s speeches and messages into other languages. The president’s frequent mangling of the English language has left interpreters and translators scratching their heads the world over. What follows is an article […]
Provider of Free Machine Translation Exposes Highly Sensitive Information in Massive Privacy Breach
Translate.com’s website offers a free machine translation service powered by Microsoft Translator. Because the site’s highly coveted domain attracts heavy web traffic, thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of unsuspecting users looking for quick machine translation found their confidential data exposed on the internet. The following article was written and published by Florian Faes, Co-Founder […]
Optimizing LSP (Language Service Provider) Performance in the Artificial Intelligence Landscape
The following article was written by Danny de Wit – CEO & Founder of Tolq. Excel Translations does not endorse, recommend, or make representations with respect to its content. Boom. There it was in the news: Google NMT makes all LSP’s redundant with their Neural Machine Translation efforts! And if not now, then surely within […]
The Data Security Issues Around Public Machine Translation — A Translator Perspective
What follows is a very interesting article written by Mats Linder, a freelance translator, writer and editor, regarding data privacy and security issues around the use of public Machine Translation (MT) services. Excel Translations does not endorse, recommend, or make representations with respect to its content. How (un)safe is Machine Translation? Some time ago there […]
The Strange, High-Pressure Work of Presidential Interpreters
Interpreters, who help bridge the language gap in presidential meetings, serve as confidants, fact-checkers, and de facto diplomats. The following article was published by David A. Graham, a staff writer at The Atlantic. Excel Translations does not endorse, recommend, or make representations with respect to its content. In any meeting with a foreign leader, the […]
Trump in Translation — President Stumps Translators & Interpreters
“Translators and interpreters describe grappling with Trump’s mannerisms for an international audience: ‘We try to grasp the context, but it’s so incoherent.’ What follows is an article published in The Guardian. Excel Translations does not endorse, recommend, or make representations with respect to its content. In 2017, when he announced the USA would withdraw from […]
Nine Strategies from Cisco’s Continuous Localization Expert
The following article was published by Kerri Lu, a marketer at OneSky. Excel Translations does not endorse, recommend, or make representations with respect to its content. What does it take to introduce, then implement an entirely new localization strategy at the “number 1 IT company in the world”? This was the challenge that Cisco’s Internationalisation […]
The Translation Industry by 2022
What follows is an article published by Jaap van der Meer, a language industry pioneer and visionary. The article tries to determine how the translation industry will have changed by the year 2022. Translation companies and the translation industry of today will not be the same in 2022. We’ll see a split in translation tech […]
Brexit Could Lead to the Development of a New Form of the English Language: Euro-English
What follows is based on an article published by Ian Johnston, a correspondent for The Independent. The EU may develop its own unique form of English and could swing the global balance on American versus English spellings of words like ‘harbor’ and ‘organization’. Europeans who speak English are already showing signs of developing their own words, […]
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