The 20th International World Wide Web Conference that was held in Hyderabad, India has announced exciting new language translation software. Indian developers hope the new software will start to transform the way computer assisted translation is used in language translation throughout the world.
At present a vast amount of information on the internet is being wasted […]
Related posts:
For us at Kwintessential the Chancellor’s budget yesterday had some very positive news. As well as measures to get SME businesses growing and creating jobs, the headline grabber was that the government is pinning the future of the country’s growth on manufacturing and in particular green technologies.
Coincidently, the announcement came on the same day that […]
Related posts:
The impending 2011 Census is projected to cost the United Kingdom Government £480 million; a large percentage of this cost is being taken up by the multiple translations of both the Census and its relevant advertisements.
The Census, which will be conducted on March 27th, is a legal requirement for all citizens over the age of […]
Related posts:
The latest goal of researchers at Google is to create a computer that can translate poetry. This ‘Al Complete task’ is “as difficult as anything we can attempt in artificial intelligence”, states Dmitriy Genzel, a research scientist at Google. What particular difficulties are there in the translation of poetry?
Google is not alone in the development […]
Related posts:
By very good fortune a translation scam using Kwintessential’s name and brand has been exposed by an eagle-eyed translator.
The email was sent to the translator, who shall be called Mr X, requesting information for a large project.
Dear Mr. X
As translation office on the west coast of the US, we are looking for freelance […]
Related posts:
The Egyptian Revolution has brought to the forefront the role of social media in the modern world. Debate continues over the role websites such as Facebook and Twitter played in the movement in Egypt; however to what extent these websites played a role in the revolution is not important. What is important is that they […]
Related posts:
Kwintessential decided to have a look and see what the most translated languages were for 2010.
Below are the top 15 languages we dealt with last year, translating either from/into English.
French
German
Spanish
Arabic
Italian
Chinese
Dutch
Russian
Polish
Portuguese
Japanese
Turkish
Greek
Swedish
Farsi
Social Bookmarking
Related posts:The Online Translation BattleChinese soon to become world’s 2nd languageTop 20 Spoken Languages
Related posts:
2010 saw the emergence of a new trend in Internet domains, the rise of the internationalized domain names (IDNs). As we move into 2011 we can anticipate a change that will mean that URLs are no longer confined fully to the English language or Latin script.
At the end of 2010 existing IDNs were heavily concentrated […]
Related posts:
The European Commission has succeeded in formally presenting a proposal allowing 12 European Union (EU) countries to push for a ‘single European patent’. These member states have acted under the process of ‘enhanced co-operation’; this process allows nine or more countries to ask the commission to support and allow a proposal on which a united […]
Related posts:
Promoter of American musician Lady Gaga has revealed that the performer is thinking of recording future records in languages other than English.
Ralph Simon revealed in a recent interview to a Russian news agency that he has approached Lady Gaga about recording one of her “big songs for next year in Russian”. The move would be […]
Related posts: