Crisis Commons found a global network of Creole speakers to translate emergency texts after Haiti's earthquake, and is now recruiting translators for Pakistan.
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Starting a translation business can be a rewarding and profitable venture
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.
Search terms, tokenisation and blocking statutes: why e-discovery quietly fails on foreign language documents, and how cross-border review teams build around it.
The Commission's Directorate-General for Translation opened a public platform to collect hard data on an industry that had never properly counted itself.
Google's Mustafa Icil described two systems, speech-to-text and text translation, and the plan to bolt them together into live spoken translation.
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.
Translating English is a complex task that requires expertise, cultural understanding, and attention to detail.