With less than 100 speakers of each left, Mexico’s National Institute of Indian Languages is warning that sixty-four of the country’s 364 Indian dialects are at “high risk” of dying out.Javier Lopez Sanchez, who heads up the Mexican National In…

New technology to produce real-time English transcripts of foreign-language handwritten notes and printed documentsLast May we reported that SRI International had been awarded a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) $7.1 million contract un…

Microsoft Translator Hub is a comprehensive software solution for custom translation quality and it’s now ready for commercial use.Microsoft announced the commercial availability of its new language translation software at this year’s Worldwide…

Prize-winning device may eventually have the potential to help hundreds of millions of hearing-impaired people around the world.Last May we reported on three Cornell University engineering students who had developed a high-tech glove that translated ha…

What’s in Your Kit? The Medical Translator’s Guide to Navigating Clinical Trials and Investigational DocumentationErin M. Lyons will present this 60 minute webinar in English on July 19, 2012 at 12 Noon US Eastern Time. Medical translators often fo…

If you speak either Catalan or Ukrainian, you’ll be glad to know that Twitter has added both to its list of available languages, bringing the total number of supported languages to 30.Back in March, we reported that Twitter had completed work to supp…

Using portable language translation machines, police in Jackson, Mississippi have taken steps to improve communications and public relations with non-English-speaking city residents.At the end of June the Jackson Police Department (JPD) announced it wo…

As online translation services continue to evolve, will the traditional language translation and interpretation business become obsolete – and is the industry considered recession-proof?In these tough economic times, it’s hard to imagine an ind…

As Cincinnati begins to host the 2012 World Choir Games, a small army of volunteers is on hand to provide language translation for thousands of international visitors who are expected to attend the event. While the world’s focus this summer may b…

Erica De La Rosa appears in court nearly every day, but she never speaks for herself. As a certified court interpreter she literally speaks for others. Legal interpreting requires very specialized education and training. Many states require a special l…