Committee approves California senate bill requiring language translation of ballot initiatives and petitions

Providing ballot initiative petitions in the appropriate language will allow limited English proficient voters to become fully engaged in the democratic process.Last week the California Assembly Elections Committee approved Senate Bill 1233 authored by…

Committee approves California senate bill requiring language translation of ballot initiatives and petitions

Providing ballot initiative petitions in the appropriate language will allow limited English proficient voters to become fully engaged in the democratic process.Last week the California Assembly Elections Committee approved Senate Bill 1233 authored by…

Duolingo launches language translation and education website

Website introduces ground-breaking approach to online translation and language training. Now you can translate the web while learning a new language at the same time. Duolingo, a combination free language education website and crowd-sourced online lang…

Duolingo launches language translation and education website

Website introduces ground-breaking approach to online translation and language training. Now you can translate the web while learning a new language at the same time. Duolingo, a combination free language education website and crowd-sourced online lang…

Broad Operational Language Translation (BOLT)

BOLT is an international research initiative to develop breakthrough language translation technologies. Expanded global access to diverse means of communication results in more information being produced in more languages more quickly than ever before….

Broad Operational Language Translation (BOLT)

BOLT is an international research initiative to develop breakthrough language translation technologies. Expanded global access to diverse means of communication results in more information being produced in more languages more quickly than ever before….

Top 10 myths about language translation debunked Part 3

Language translation is a growing and essential necessity in the both the public and the private sector, in the world of business as well as for those involved in non-profit work.Here’s our final installment of this three-part post — the ten mos…

Top 10 myths about language translation debunked Part 2

Nataly Kelly helps to dispel these misconceptions: Being bilingual is enough to make you a translator or an interpreter, interpreters and language translators do the same thing, or such language professionals are usually multilingual. Picking up where …

Top 10 myths about language translation debunked Part 1

The translation of language impacts nearly every aspect of society, politics and economics. But you may be surprised to learn that the translation market is highly diverse and complex – and much larger than you might imagine.In this three-part post, …

NTT Docomo begins a second phase of trials for its two-way language translation mobile phone service

The translation service is part of the telecom carrier’s strategy to make its network more “intelligent” allowing it to effectively target firms that cater to foreign customers.Last month we reported that NTT Docomo was preparing to conduct a second …