Posts with tag.: translation

A presidential word contest drew 2,123 proposals from 593 Estonians; the winner, taristu, replaces the borrowed infrastruktuur and enters the dictionary as a real Estonian word.

Crisis Commons found a global network of Creole speakers to translate emergency texts after Haiti's earthquake, and is now recruiting translators for Pakistan.

St Stephen's College opened a Centre for Translations to move academic and cultural texts between India's languages, and to train the translators who would do it.

Foreign governments and foundations are funding their own way into the US book market, tackling the 3 percent problem that keeps translated literature off American shelves.

Argentina used its Frankfurt Book Fair guest slot to build SUR, a subsidy fund that paid for 300 translations in 14 months and outlived the fair itself.

Iran’s ICRO has been handed a state mandate to translate Islamic and humanities books into world languages. Selecting the right titles is the hard part.

An American indie bookseller launched an Against Amazon blog while serving as a judge for the Best Translated Book Award, which Amazon now funds with a 25,000 dollar grant.

Two thirds of Europeans can speak English and it is the first foreign language taught in every school system outside Britain and Ireland, a Eurostat survey found.

Only seven Chinese titles made it into the 348 translated books published in the US last year. The bottleneck is not talent, it is the translation pipeline.

Thailand tried to grow Thai Wikipedia with statistical machine translation. The idea was right and the mechanism was wrong, for reasons every localization team now recognises.

Google bundled translation into a service for exporters. The ads were the cheap part to translate; the checkout, the support and the keyword research are where campaigns fail.

Moscow’s Library of Foreign Literature wants an Institute of Translation, a House of the Translator, to push Russian authors abroad through better foreign translations.

USP proposed prescription labels in plain language, larger type and the patient's preferred language. The 'once' problem shows why a bad translation is worse than none.

New York must replace 250,900 street signs at a cost of $27.6m because federal rules found all-caps lettering is slower to read and more dangerous at speed.

Google is redesigning Translate for discoverability, not accuracy, and adding a page that explains how statistical machine translation actually works.

Google search volumes suggest only 8% of companies translating a website ever consider international SEO. Why keyword research should decide what gets localised.

Estimates of the translation market span a tenfold range because nobody agrees what to count. What is not disputed is why it exists, or which tiers automation actually took.

A primary school principal in Izmir has recorded 4,500 Romani words from three neighbourhoods, building the first Turkish-Romany dictionary from scratch.

The University of Pune is compiling the first Pali-Sanskrit-Tibetan dictionary, closing a gap that has forced Buddhist scholars to work through two reference books at once.

Machine translation is a triage tool in cross-border litigation, not a substitute for human legal translation. Where it saves money and where it loses cases.

Search terms, tokenisation and blocking statutes: why e-discovery quietly fails on foreign language documents, and how cross-border review teams build around it.

Africa Talks Climate found that many indigenous languages have no words for the science of climate change, leaving warnings unintelligible to the people most at risk.

Google added Latin to Google Translate, announced it in a blog post written entirely in Latin, and predicted the results would be among its most accurate.

Rio state has put eight linguists on a public phone line to answer questions on accents, syntax and agreement. The anxiety behind the service is the real story.

A translated exhibit is testimony, not evidence, and the other side can attack it. How certified translations of evidence are challenged and what makes them survive.

The Welsh Language Measure gave Welsh official status and put public bodies under a duty to provide services in it, creating steady demand and an unexpected quality problem.

Brazil's events boom and inbound investment pushed demand for translators and interpreters upward, opening a market young professionals had written off.

US demand for translators and interpreters kept climbing through the recession, with global spending on language services estimated at $26 billion a year.

Helsinki startup XIHA offered content in 56 languages and, unlike LinkedIn, paid its translators. The premise outlived the platform.

An EU-commissioned report valued Europe's language industry at $12bn and growing 10% a year. Why the sector stayed invisible and what the investors saw first.

Google Conversation Mode turns Android phones into speech translators, but background noise, accents and fast talk still expose the limits of machine interpreting.

Haryana Agricultural University will require overseas students to study Hindi. In India, a language mandate is never just an educational decision.

Arabic web users grew 2,000% and Chinese is overtaking English online. How Google Translate and human projects like Meedan are keeping the web readable.

Google prototype Conversation Mode records speech on Android and plays it back in another language, promising travellers real time translation that still depends on battery and signal.

The NYCLU says riders who speak little English are denied interpreters in transit court, a due-process failure that quietly decides cases before they are argued.

Occitan, Breton, Basque, Corsican and Alsatian all survive in a country whose constitution recognises one language. A guide to the languages spoken in France.

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Learn how to get certified English translations accepted first time, from choosing translators to notarization, apostille, formatting, and legal requirements.

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MLA job listings stop falling but do not recover, leaving new PhDs in English and foreign languages fighting over a shrunken pool of tenure-track posts.

The Commission's Directorate-General for Translation opened a public platform to collect hard data on an industry that had never properly counted itself.

Vietnam’s growth is reshaping demand for Vietnamese translation services, and the agencies still using diaspora reviewers are quietly losing the market.

Latin, Greek and Hebrew survive at university because translation turns locked manuscripts into evidence students can argue with, and machines still cannot do it.

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Wikipedia marks its tenth birthday by opening its first office outside the United States in India, betting that growth now depends on local language editions rather than English.

Executive departments spent almost £200,000 translating documents into Irish and Ulster Scots. The row that followed was never really about the money.

Leeds researcher Serge Sharoff has £700,000 from the European Commission to build term banks that could reshape machine translation and language teaching alike.

From Roman Dacia to Church Slavonic, Soviet Cyrillic and the 2023 law that renamed it Romanian, the Moldovan language has always been an argument about politics.

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Lawmakers want every chain pharmacy in New York State to translate prescription labels, extending a 2009 city law after research found most pharmacists rarely translate at all.

Long Beach cut the Spanish simulcast of council meetings, then told housing advocates the promised interpreters were not available either.

Common Sense Advisory surveyed 651 providers in 75 countries: demand is up over 13% a year, translation rates are down, and memory discounts hit 48%.

Vengerian is the Slavic name for Hungarian, a Uralic outlier with 18 cases, vowel harmony and a focus position that machine translation still cannot handle.

New Joint Commission standards force hospitals to provide interpreting, turning a chronically under-supplied role into one of the fastest growing jobs in American healthcare.

English translations turned Tamil and Hindi pulp fiction into respectable reading, and a $2.9 billion Indian publishing market is riding the change.

Spanish has 500 million native speakers across 20 countries and no neutral default, which is why dialect, register and the subjunctive decide every translation.

Google's Mustafa Icil described two systems, speech-to-text and text translation, and the plan to bolt them together into live spoken translation.

A Pennsylvania county paid $5,500 for court interpreters in a year and is asking whether it was necessary. The breakdown answers the question better than the headline.

Fifteen cases, consonant gradation, no articles and a verb that conjugates to say no: why Finnish grammar defeats both learners and machine translation.

Farideh Mahdavi-Damghani, the award-winning Iranian translator, visited Korea and found almost no Korean literature available in Persian, and set out to change that.

How Joint Commission accreditation standards turned medical interpreting from a hospital courtesy into a reimbursement-linked patient-safety requirement.

India has chased UN status for Hindi since 2003, but the cost, the two-thirds majority and its own southern states all stand in the way.

Camera translation, offline packs and voice mode have removed the everyday friction of a foreign city, but they still cannot sign a consent form.

From Rihanna backwards French tattoo to a prison handbook promising an execution yard, the annual Jelly Donut Awards collect the five worst translation errors of the year.

Google built a system to translate poetry with metre and rhyme intact. The experiment exposed exactly where machine translation stops being translation.

Two handwritten pages cut from Chamber of Secrets go on show in a Galloway bookshop. Rowling gave them to fund a Scots dictionary, which is the better story.

Armenia is building a medical tourism sector on European standards and low prices, but growth depends on data, accredited clinics and reliable medical translation.

English speakers still outnumber Chinese speakers online, but the gap is closing fast, and Beijing has banned foreign words in publications without a Chinese translation.

MBC and Showtime Arabia abandoned classical Arabic subtitles for dubbing, because 70 million people in the region could not read the words on screen.

From the docks to the life sciences sector, Liverpool has needed translators for two centuries: what legal, medical and creative language work actually involves.

Automotive translation covers manuals, diagnostics, contracts and marketing across dozens of markets, where a single mistranslated value becomes a safety and warranty problem.

The European Master's in Translation network turned academic courses into a quality label, built to fix a shortage of properly qualified translators.

Cloud translation could let two colleagues talk across any language. Europe’s privacy rules decide where the recording of that call is allowed to travel.

A translation is a derivative work, but it can carry its own copyright. What decides ownership in practice is not the law, it is the contract the translator signs.

The Assembly Government is expanding its Welsh translation unit and upgrading posts while the rest of the public sector shrinks, drawing fire from taxpayer campaigners.

Shanzhai and fangnu made it into the new Oxford Chinese-English dictionary. Two entries, 670,000 words, and a quiet record of what China has been worrying about.

Acrolinx, Asia Online, Clay Tablet and Milengo built a best-of-breed translation stack aimed squarely at SDL, and the seams are where it lives or dies.

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Asian language translation revenue hit $1,312 million in 2008 and was projected to reach $1,516 million, with southern India's factories driving a hiring surge.

UK public sector cuts have wiped out state translation contracts, pushing language firms toward exporters chasing deals in China, India, Brazil and Russia.

Russian translation fails when it is treated as word substitution. Cases, aspect, register and culture decide whether the result reads as native or as machine output.

Villagers in Rockfield want the Welsh name Llanoronwy scrapped from their signs, arguing the council invented a translation for a place name that never needed one.

Talisman Theatre stages English translations of new Quebec plays, forcing hard choices about jokes, religion and how much culture a translator should carry across.

Canada's first translation rights fair brought seventy publishers together to trade translation rights, the transaction that decides which books ever cross a language border.

A whistleblower at Mission Essential Personnel says unqualified interpreters were sent into Afghan combat zones, and ABC News footage shows one of them inventing dialogue.

Pizza Hut became happy canteen and Bing sounds like sickness: why western brands entering China treat naming as transcreation, not translation.

The Best Translated Book Award longlist covered 19 countries and 12 languages, and its shape shows exactly which literatures get bought in English and which do not.

The research firm predicts language moves from back-office cost to revenue lever in 2011, with machine translation, crowdsourcing and video localization leading the shift.

Brussels expanded its European Master's in Translation network to fix a shortage of qualified translators, turning 34 university courses into a quality label.

Beijing landlords near the universities are paying well for translators after losing tenants to language barriers, with one student earning 2,000 yuan on two rentals.

Humpty Dumpty in English, Indonesian, Russian and Turkish shows what each grammar forces speakers to decide, and what the new research on linguistic relativity found.

Twelve EU states move to create a unitary patent through enhanced cooperation, granting in English, French or German and breaking a decade-long deadlock over language.

The Association of Spanish Language Academies says Spanish will lead the world in native speakers by 2050. Here is what drives the forecast and what it changes.

Russia is founding an Institute of Translation for literature, a grant-giving body rather than a school, after officials admitted translators had been left without state support.

Translating comprehensive guides and resources in Germany is a critical task for businesses, organizations, and individuals who want to reach a German-speaking audience

Google Docs now translates documents in 53 languages from inside the editor, but the output is plain Google Translate. Here is where that works and where it fails.

Whitehall and the justice system spent 140 million pounds on translation last year, up 40 per cent in two years despite a cost-cutting drive, reigniting the language test row.

An EU directive makes interpretation and translation compulsory in criminal proceedings, turning a fair-trial principle into a budget line member states must fund.

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Emergency patients given a professional interpreter were four times as likely to report satisfaction, and the Annals of Emergency Medicine study points to safety gains too.

A practical guide to website translation services, from why translating your site matters to machine versus human translation, ecommerce stores, and where to start.

Google translated 16 million words into Hindi, Tamil, Swahili and more for Wikipedia using Google Trends to pick articles and humans to fix the machine drafts.

Senate Bill 2639 would force foreign-language signs in the Philippines to carry a Filipino or English translation. Mandating a translation is not the same as mandating a good one.

How linguists are using crowdsourced volunteers to translate low resource languages that machine translation still cannot handle, from Haiti to intelligence work.