Blog: Tools and Technology

Are AI, machine translation and neural translation systems accurate enough to take over from human translators? Find out here.

Avoid the sleepless nights associated with managing a complex multilingual website translation project and read this post! Here Sophie discusses how technology can help streamline your workflows and help you project manage them more effectively.

Why translate something twice, and pay for it twice, when you can reduce your word count by identifying repetitions and improve accuracy and consistency at the same time? That’s what translation memory software can help you with, learn more here.

Many people confuse Machine Translation (MT) with free translation tools such as Google Translate. This causes particular concern amongst firms requiring legal translation, as online translation tools offer no data security protection, confidentiality or quality assurance. Machine translation is very different to those free tools. It’s secure and complies with data security and confidentiality requirements;

How do you ensure quality and consistency across all your translations? Whether you need translations for a variety of channels (websites, brochures, emails etc.), technical manuals or specifications that are regularly updated or seasonal marketing campaigns, you will want your translations to be consistent; with the same terminology, phrasing and definitions across all communications. Translation

Is learning a new language your New Year’s Resolution? It’s difficult to believe that just a few years ago learning a language on your own meant corny tapes, dreary books and a huge amount of self-motivation! Thankfully today there are (of course) apps for that. We’ve scoured the net to find the Top 5 language apps

Have you ever found yourself at a loss as to what to pack for a business trip abroad? Ever accidently made a major cultural faux-pas while meeting an important international client? Well, as they say, there’s an app for that! So whether you’re jetting off on a business trip or holiday, there are hundreds of

The advent of social networks, over the past decade, have given rise to a huge number of new promotional channels, many of which offer great reward for minimal financial outlay. However, because of the dominance of global giants like Facebook and Twitter, it can sometimes be hard to appreciate the bigger social networking picture.

The lure of free machine translations can be strong when working to a tight budget or deadline. The obvious drawback of a poor-quality translation is often overlooked when all you need is to understand the gist of a document, however most users do not consider the technical side of what happens to the data that you put into translation machines.