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 …

International Medical Interpreters Association and Northern California Translators Association to co-organize Medical Terminology Boot Camp in San Francisco

The one day (eight-hour) non-language-specific workshop will provide an in-depth review of basic medical terminology for medical interpreters and translators.The Northern California Translators Association (NCTA) and the International Medical Interpret…

Korean-speaking fraudster arrested for charging immigrants for his language translation services at a New York City Hospital

Hospitals in the United States are mandated to provide interpretation services free of charge to non-English speaking patientsAccording to the New York Daily News, a Korean-speaking man was busted at Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens after he was caug…

Yahoo! Babel Fish is no more, but never fear, Bing Translator is here!

Microsoft Bing Translate service offers features, such as Text Translator, Webpage Translator and Website WidgetThere was a time, back before Google Translate, that Yahoo!’s Babel Fish translator could arguably have been called the best translati…