The language services industry, encompassing interpreting, translation, localization, and related technologies – is worth $33 billion globally, according to the latest market size estimates from Common Sense Advisory.She’s back! In a guest post…

Microsoft researchers demonstrate software that translates spoken English into spoken Chinese almost instantly, while preserving the unique cadence of the speaker’s voice.Back in March when I started writing this blog and in one of my first posts, I dr…

Students from Morris Innovative High School in Dalton, Georgia are providing voluntary language interpretation services at parent-teacher conferences in local elementary schoolsA language gap looms especially large in this northwest Georgia county, hom…

The U.S. Army is in the final phase of research aimed at supporting accurate medical translation on handheld devices during medical engagements outside the United States.The ability of medics to communicate with patients is critical for providing effec…

The introduction of the three new features to Google Translate should help users distinguish among different possible translations of a given word.In September we reported that Google had added Lao as its 65th language to its Translate service. Now the…

In response to growth in the San Diego Chinese voter population, the Registrar of Voters office is printing the ballot and other voting materials in Chinese.With the general election just around the corner, efforts are underway to accommodate the needs…

The 34th Translating and the Computer Conference in London is a meeting point for translators, researchers and students in the translation and localization field.The annual Translating and the Computer Conference is a meeting point for international tr…

An ambitious telephone service gives newcomers to the Greater Toronto Area in Canada access to 24/7 medical language interpretation.The Greater Toronto Area (GTA) is a major metropolitan area in Canada and 41 per cent of its population is comprised of …

Increasing state and federal requirements for communicating with limited English speakers have challenged hospital administrators to find cost-effective solutions for this problem.??There are an estimated 47 million residents in the United States w…

The difficulty in translating some words depends on what language you are translating from and the one you are working into, because some languages lack linguistic equivalents for concepts that are foreign to their culture.We now continue with the seco…