How AI and ML Could Transform Speech-to-Text Language Translations

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming important in relation to voice-to-text translation. So far, the aim is for AI and machine learning (ML) to achieve 99 percent accuracy when AI and ML are used in the coming years. It’s getting so sophisticated that when using ‘Smart Compose,’ where someone in Gmail writes a sentence and ‘the […]

What’s New in Facial Recognition Technology?

Not that long ago a team of behavioural scientists and linguists were helicoptered in to a remote valley in Irian Jaya, the Indonesian half of the huge island of New Guinea. They had heard that there were people living in the valley that had never before been encountered. No-one knew what language they spoke so […]

Planning a Trip to the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia?

Its four years since the last exciting Soccer FIFA World Cup that was held in the soccer-mad country of Brazil. This time it is in the almost equally soccer mad country of Russia. If you are thinking of attending any of the matches or all of them then there may be many things to think […]

The 6 Most Translated Songs of All Time

1. Pop songs When it comes to song translation of pop songs “This Too Shall Pass” sung by the United States rock band OK Go is the most translated pop song of all time. It was first released in 2010 and was heard often in a variety of shows, like the television series “My Generation” […]

The Many Benefits of Learning Italian Language and Culture

Benefits of learning the Italian language: Business and trade The Italian economy, while not the largest in Europe (that distinction goes to Germany), is still very significant, making Italy an important trading partner. In 2017, for example, the U.S. alone exported around $18 billion worth of goods and imported $50 billion of goods from Italy. […]

Document Translation Services if You Have Been in the Military

If you have had a career in the military for any length of time and haven’t reached retirement, it can seem a shock to go back into civil society. When you are in the military, many things that are necessary elsewhere are taken care of for you. In fact, while you have had the opportunity […]

What is Meant by Quality Assurance in Translation?

Global communication has never been more important than now and that means that translators are busy helping aid communication wherever there is a language barrier. If your business or organisation needs a lot of translation done for them, then you will want to be assured of the quality of the translation. Good translators and translation […]

How to Make Money From Proofreading

If you are the sort of person who hates seeing any errors in text and the mistakes stand out so that the text doesn’t read well you could earn extra money in proofreading because today there is high demand for quality texts. The only way this can be achieved is by thoroughly proofreading and correcting […]

4 Things Your Website Translation Is Missing

Translating a website might appear at first glance to be an easy task but unless you have hired a translator from a website translation service which has extensive experience in this type of translation it’s quite easy for mistakes to be made. Common Omissions in a Website Translation 1. File Names Many of us already […]

Translators are Vanguards for Literary Change

Some people may believe that a translation is just a word by word translation of a text, but Venuti, alongside other theorists, believes a translation is not just a semantic transferral of meaning shared with 2 languages but translating is a literary and cultural process which comes under the influence of many factors that helps […]