Evernote began localization with zero budget, internally developed tech and crowdsourced translations. Now they handle 2.4 million words across 25 languages with their open source stack and direct freelancers. Continue reading
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Come October 17, users can suggest translation corrections on their Windows 10 OS through the new Language Community app. The program has already opened for so called Windows Insiders. Continue reading
German security software company Avira translates marketing materials for its products in at least 13 languages, but starts experimenting with crowdsourced translations to broaden language coverage. Continue reading
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San Francisco and Portugal-based Unbabel raises USD 5m from Notion Capital and Caixa Capital to build out its heavy on tech, light on humans model. CEO says, despite recent progress, the quality gap between neural machine translation and human translation is still huge. Continue reading
Healthcare platform startup HealthTap, whose 100,000 participating doctors and millions of users contributed nearly 5 billion questions and health tips, launches portal to translate its vast knowledge base into more than 100 languages. How? Free crowdsourcing. Continue reading
Signs of life in the Japanese startup world, as two co-founders of translation crowdsourcing platform Conyac sell to language service provider Rozetta for USD 14m in cash and stock deal. Continue reading
The Head of Swiss Post’s Language Services Unit, Martina Bellodi, talks about how her unit handles an annual translation volume of up to 18 million words, and shares her thoughts on working with LSPs and the future of language technology. Continue reading
Valve Software is facing a strike by a vocal group of crowdsourced fan translators for Spanish on its Steam Translation Server platform. Row highlights potential pitfalls of crowdsourcing model. Continue reading
Predictive typing, no more middlemen, visualized app translation, machine translation edited by the crowd, and more. What is shaping tomorrow’s language industry. And are the incumbents ready for what’s coming? Continue reading
Perfect domain name vs. WhatsApp-like user interface: how Translate.com and Stepes are trying to conquer the long tail of translation demand through crowdsourcing. Continue reading
YouTube opens the gates to its more than one billion users for professional language services providers through its translation marketplace. Continue reading
The software development crowdsourcing company, which includes translation and localization, estimates project requests this 2015 to reach $82.3 million. Continue reading
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