Getting Ready for Uncertain Economic Times
By Dorothee Racette … With renewed talk about global economic upheaval in the media, I was recently thinking about the factors that allow a small business […]
Translation
Scribus to the rescue for InDesign translations!
A free, Open Source DTP tool that can open and convert many file formats By Kevin Lossner Previously I published a few posts describing how […]
It gets more and more confused’: can AI replace translators?
Keza MacDonald | The Guardian «Dutch publisher Veen Bosch & Keuning’s announcement that it would use AI translation for commercial fiction has outraged both authors and translators […]
Freelance Protections Were Just Signed Into Law Across California State: Here’s What You Need to Know
The Freelance Worker Protection Act, an iteration of “Freelance Isn’t Free”, was signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom on September 28th, 2024. This legislation, […]
American Bar Association’s Formal Opinion 512: Generative Artificial Intelligence Tools
To ensure clients are protected, lawyers using generative artificial intelligence tools must fully consider their applicable ethical obligations, including their duties to provide competent legal […]
Japan Association of Translators condemns AI manga translation
By Casey Baseel, SoraNews24 | Japan Today «The Japan Association of Translators wishes to express its strong reservations regarding the public and private sector initiative […]
Slow translation manifesto, by ITI
«There is a growing appetite for more content to be translated into more languages, which has fuelled a rush towards automated translation using machine translation […]
ELC survey on Artificial Intelligence in Translation and Interpreting
The European Language Council (CEL/ELC) Special Interest Group (SIG) on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in translation and interpreting (T&I) is looking for professional translators and interpreters to […]
Amazon Researchers Find ‘Shocking Amount’ of Faulty Machine Translations in the Web
Jace Dela Cruz, Tech Times 23 January 2024, 03:01 am In collaboration with the University of California, Santa Barbara, researchers at the Amazon Web Services Artificial […]
Duolingo reportedly shifting to AI use after laying off translators
Christopher Baggett ❘ Published: Jan 08, 2024, 12:23 ❘ Updated: Jan 08, 2024, 13:34 Language translation app Duolingo is under fire on social […]
Encuesta a traductores independientes 2023 [Freelance Translator Survey 2023]
Publicada el 8 de diciembre de 2023; actualizada el 11 de diciembre de 2023. El objetivo de esta Freelance Translator Survey 2023 es conocer mejor […]
“We are digging our own graves”: Translators are being left behind in India’s streaming boom
“Everybody at some point is going to be under pressure from competition, and the question is, if someone else can do it cheaper, why can’t you?”
Where have all the translators gone?
The global audience for foreign-language streaming shows has never been larger. But subtitlers are leaving the industry in droves By Miranda Bryant Amid soaring appetite […]
Amazon Translate, Google Translate, Susceptible to Attacks
Toward the end of 2020, Amazon launched a Live Translation feature for its Alexa virtual assistant — according to a recent report from How-To Geek, the […]
Investigación del mercado mundial de servicios de traducción por tipo de servicio
Por Julio Alonso Arévalo Language translators have been around the corner earning money by working for business officials across the country translating meaningful meetings as […]
COVID-19 Resources to Support Accurate Translation
A COVID-19 glossary of 150 terms in 18 languages made it available for download in PDF and Excel formats (includes all languages). Arabic | Bengali […]
JoSTrans Issue 34, July 2020
The Journal of Specialised Translation non-thematic issue 34 has been grouped into three thematic sections spanning various subfields of Translation and Interpreting Studies: (1) Spotlight […]
Call for Papers: A special issue of Jostrans (2021) on Teaching Translation and Interpreting in Virtual Environment
Guest Editors: Dr. J. Devaux and Dr. S. Hubscher-Davidson Since the global Covid-19 pandemic of March 2020, many universities have decided to transfer their face-to-face […]
