Synopsis for a SOURCES SOUGHT ANNOUNCEMENT (SSA)–not a solicitation for bid.The Product Director (PD) Machine Foreign Language Translation System (MFLTS), Fort Belvoir, VA, is conducting market research to identify industry experience and state of the…
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If you rely on automated translation software for your seasonal greetings you do so at the risk of being misunderstood or even embarrassed.Machine language translation, otherwise known as automated or automatic translation, has certainly come a long wa…
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If you rely on automated translation software for your seasonal greetings you do so at the risk of being misunderstood or even embarrassed.Machine language translation, otherwise known as automated or automatic translation, has certainly come a long wa…
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YouTube has announced that it is expanding support for its automatic captioning service for six European languages.YouTube’s automatically translated captions are now available in German, Italian, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Dutch. Avid YouT…
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Microsoft continues making strides in the development of its language translation technology with the release of its Bing translator app for Windows Phone 8.We recently wrote about Microsoft’s breakthrough speech recognition, language translation…
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It’s time for a review of the five top language translation apps on the market to see how technology is keeping pace with the demands of the evolving language landscape. From time to time we’ve reported on several individual language translatio…
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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