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