The European Language Equality project is calling for support from the language community to endorse its strategic agenda for digital language equality in Europe by 2030.
Experts in language technology from ADAPT urge European Parliament to support language equality and prevent digital extinction of minority languages.
Interpreter unions at the European Parliament end their strike — at least until the end of 2022; warn that work could still stop if agreed-upon guidelines are not met.
The threat and opportunity of multilingual AI writing, EU interpreter strike update, Lionbridge builds out its games division, and the latest machine translation features at Airbnb.
EU interpreters vote unanimously to stop remote interpreting until demands for improved work conditions are met.
While several language service providers were named to lots for multiple languages, almost 26,000 pages of historically hard-to-hire-for Irish translation remain unassigned.
European Parliament’s DG TRAD shares future plans after selecting consortium of Cedat85, RWS, BertinIT to provide tool that transcribes, translates multilingual parliamentary debates in real time.
The pandemic forced the European Parliament to quickly adopt remote interpreting and reconfigure on-site interpreting setups, with plans to establish regional interpreting hubs.
European Commission to honor long-term interpreter contracts until December 2020. Parliament continues terminating contracts; sets up paid online learning scheme to soften blow.
EU releases complete list of players in contract to automatically transcribe and translate multilingual parliamentary debates in real time; two consortia and Microsoft Belgium awarded for phase one.
LSPs and translators hopeful of a demand boost from EU Medical Devices Regulation (EU MDR) must wait a little longer as coronavirus delays application.
Ireland and the EU hope their support for Irish education and professional training will pay off with enough Irish translators to allow the EU’s Irish derogation status to expire in 2022.
DGT awards translation contracts to 50+ LSPs across 18 target languages, worth USD 70m over five years; incumbent translation productivity provider SDL bags repeat contract.
Lawyer-linguists at the EU work on matters that have major policy and political implications. Here’s what it takes to be part of the elite few.
The Directorate-General for Translation has awarded Plunet a two-year EUR 0.97m TMS contract. DG TRAD to use Plunet Business Manager for managing its translation outsourcing.
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