On June 5 of this year we hosted colloquium on collaborative translation in Palo Alto where several of the Facebook language managers spoke about their approach to community translation. When casual observers comment about how getting the users to translate sounds like good business, they are alluding to the bit about it being wink-wink-nudge-nudge “free.” […]

When we first heard about JAJAH’s extremely simple process for providing machine-based telephone interpretation, it sounded too good to be true. The process is comprised of three easy steps — simply dial a number from any phone, speak in English, and hand your phone to the person who speaks Mandarin. The way it is described, […]

This week, there were rumblings about the forthcoming beta release of Google’s new translation management system (TMS), called Translation Center. If you’re familiar with Google Translate, you might be thinking, “Big deal, this is just a low-tech, human version of what they’re already doing.” If so, you would be wrong: This is big news for […]

This week’s earnings announcements by Lionbridge and SDL were not exactly earth-shaking news items on Wall Street, but the language industry is our beat. So, these updates typically merit some attention from us – we recently provided some advance analysis in the lead up to this latest round of results.
The SDL announcement, in the form […]