by Asif Afzal | Jul 9, 2020 | Interpreting, Language, Translation
Most people have heard of author Dan Brown and his Da Vinci Code novel series, but for those of us in the translation industry he is more famous for depositing translators in secret locations (to minimise the risk of leaked manuscripts), and the ensuing French movie...
by Asif Afzal | May 28, 2020 | Interpreting, Language, Localization, Translation
Virtually every country, industry and individual in the world has been affected by the Coronavirus and the ensuing global pandemic, including the translation industry and the linguists who work within it. Many people have been furloughed, made unemployed, lost...
by Asif Afzal | May 15, 2020 | Doing business, Interpreting, Language, Translation
Multinational corporations are used to participating in multilingual meetings, conferences and events in today’s international marketplace but the Covid-19 pandemic has changed the way we share in these occasions. Before Covid-19, participants would travel the globe...
by Asif Afzal | May 8, 2020 | Interpreting, Language, Translation
The European Union, through the CEF (Connecting Europe Facility), is offering grants of between €0.2 to 0.8m to developers of language tools such as, collaborative language resource projects, and Collaborative language tools projects. The total budget earmarked for...
by Asif Afzal | Mar 6, 2020 | Interpreting, Language, Translation
Interpreters are frequent visitors to high profile conferences and ceremonies but often remain behind the scenes, or inconspicuously hidden in plain sight, however, this year’s Oscars saw interpreter Sharon Choi centre front on the stage as she translated for Oscar...
by Asif Afzal | Feb 28, 2020 | Interpreting, Language, Translation
Edinburgh Airport have just announced the installation of a translation device capable of translating speech into more than 70 languages. According to the Edinburgh Evening News, the airport is the first in the UK to install such a device, with the aim of helping...
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