It’s official: Twitter goes right-to-left in four new languages

Twitter announces full support for Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and Urdu.You know, it’s pretty incredible what a company can achieve when it has millions of loyal users, and particularly when they’re spread out all over the world. Twitter is truly…

Google goes where no machine translation has gone before…

Consecutive interpretation by Chrome browser and on your smart phone…Although it’s not quite what you might find aboard the Starship Enterprise, Google has made another step forward in the development of machine translation. An innovative featu…

European Patent Office and Google launch new patent translation service

Machine translation provides access to about 90% of all European patents…The European Patent Office (EPO) in cooperation with Google has launched a new machine translation service in an important step to improve access to patent documents in multiple…

British….what is it?

Louise Bawden asks the people of London (and from abroad) what they define as quintessentially British.     What is British? Let us know what you think: 1) Leave a comment below 2) Tweet us @_kwintessential 3) Post a comment on our Facebook page No related posts.

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British….what is it?

Louise Bawden asks the people of London (and from abroad) what they define as quintessentially British.     What is British? Let us know what you think: 1) Leave a comment below 2) Tweet us @_kwintessential 3) Post a comment on our Facebook page

Politicians are already difficult to follow…

…so just try to understand what they are saying on Twitter by using automatic translation tools.A funny blog post got me playing around with online translation again. In “Facebook and Twitter try to translate — but we still can’t un…

The NHS: Shocking Cost of Poor Translations

It’s always shocking to hear of taxpayers’ money going to waste in vast quantities: especially when it’s easily avoidable. Likewise, it’s always shocking to hear of suffering or death where this is easily avoidable. One of the key concerns for the NHS in the current savings drive is to ensure that services can be provided […]

The NHS: Shocking Cost of Poor Translations

It’s always shocking to hear of taxpayers’ money going to waste in vast quantities: especially when it’s easily avoidable. Likewise, it’s always shocking to hear of suffering or death where this is easily avoidable. One of the key concerns for the NHS in the current savings drive is to ensure that services can be provided […]

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Translations of official state languages an issue in….

…the only state that has given its native language “official language” status.Amidst the debate about the role of Spanish in the US, many people don’t realize that one state already has two official languages. Can you name it? I’ll …

How to say “I Love You” in a Foreign Language

Happy Valentine’s Day from all at Kwintessential. Here’s a small multilingual guide to saying those 3 magic words in another language!