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Interpreting Services: A Brief Guide

Firstly, a spot of housekeeping. Although the jobs of interpreter and translator require overlapping skills, there are important distinctions.Translators and interpreters work to bridge communication gaps. They both transfer meaning from one language to another and help the inclusion of all connected parties in the conversation.Successful international business necessitates seamless multilingual communication and both translators and interpreters are frequently required to enable a smooth transi...

Is AI the Solution Your Content Needs?

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) continues to astound us.In January of this year when a speech in Spanish by the Argentinian president at the World Economic Forum in Davos was subsequently recreated in English, the world took note. In a video released shortly afterward and powered by generative AI, the president’s mouth was exactly synched to the English words he was saying: for all intents and purposes he became a fluent English speaker.  The video had 75 million views.We’re becoming...

The Importance of Language Access

Society is more diverse and more multicultural than ever before. We now live, study and work alongside people from different backgrounds and with transnational histories. Unlike a few decades ago, hearing many varied languages spoken on our streets and in our neighborhoods is commonplace.Our cultures and communities overlap more and more. We’re linked to colleagues and friends worldwide by fast, high-tech telecommunications, social media and the internet. We follow news from all corners of the g...

Communicating the Olympics

If you like watching sport, the summer of 2024 will be your idea of bliss. The Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games and the football - soccer for some of you - European Championships in Germany should fill many happy hours of TV viewing. And of course, there are all the annual crowd-pleasers like the Tour de France, Wimbledon, Formula One and golfing majors. These global events bring together athletes, spectators, journalists, officials and volunteers from many nations who speak many languages. Co...

Translation Quality Management

In our recent blog posts, we’ve looked at how the price of translation is calculated and how investing in translation brings value to businesses looking to expand globally. We showed that when it’s done well, translation is a precious asset to a growing business.However, translation is a complex task, and there’s no denying that it can take a considerable chunk of a company’s budget. As with all significant spending, getting value for money and ensuring a successful outcome are essential.How do...

Translating SAP Content into New Languages

Embarking on an SAP translation project may be necessary for several reasons. If your business is growing into new markets, translation could be needed to comply with local regulations, to enable your regional teams to work more easily in your SAP system and to ensure standardisation across all your business locations.However, as we established in one of our recent blogs (which you can read here), the process of translating SAP content can be complex and varies from company to company. Using thi...

The Cost of Translation Part 2

Geographical boundaries have long since ceased to be barriers to international trade. Today, companies of any size can do business globally, benefitting from easy, instant digital communication and the opportunities for worldwide buying and selling that the Internet brings. Technologies enabling e-commerce and digital payments, and the increasing influence of artificial intelligence, help large and small businesses alike reach new customers in new markets.International trade, however, isn’t with...

The Cost of Translation

The possibilities of what can be translated are almost endless.Websites, software, legal texts, marketing copy, technical documentation, audio files, media formats, literary works, meetings, and conferences are just some of the content that can be translated from one language to another.The number of languages – and more importantly, language pairs – that can be translated is also very high and runs to thousands.This means that the cost of translation naturally varies between what is being trans...