Posts with tag.: translation service

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Discover 5 hidden signs your business needs professional translation services to avoid costly mistakes, protect your brand, and boost global growth.

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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.

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%.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.