Smart Phone Translation Technology To Be Used by US Military
Filed under: Interpretation, Mobile Technology, Translation Tools
This summer National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) performed a final round of complete tests for 3 of their new two-way, real-time, voice-translation devices. These speech translation systems were developed for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to improve communications between the U.S. military and non-English speakers in foreign countries.
Why One Can’t Trust Online Translation Tools
Filed under: Accurate Translation, Certified Translation, Proofreading, Transl8 Language Solutions, Translation, Translation Tools
In the past several years there appeared a lot of online translation tools that offer from simple phrases to the whole website translation into multiple languages. One of them is Google Translate, which, in comparison to other language translation tool, claims to use a “statistical translation system for the language pairs” instead of the rule-based approach that “requires a lot of work to define grammar and vocabularies.”
What the company actually means with their technology is that they “feed the computer billions of words of text, both monolingual text in the target language, and aligned text consisting of examples of human translations between the languages. We then apply statistical learning techniques to build a translation model.”
Top 10 Languages to translate your Website into!
Filed under: Accurate Translation, Certified Translation, Globalization, Interpretation, Localization, Proofreading, Transl8 Language Solutions, Translation, Translation Tools
When you’re looking to expand your market share and present your products to the broader international audience you have to do your homework in regards to your target audience. Knowing what are the fastest growing regions in the world will help you to position your website correctly and tap into the right markets.
