US court rulings are ruffling feathers, content effectiveness might be a better yardstick over linguistic quality, talent acquisition has gotten harder over the past 12 months, and no, most have not considered investing in publicly listed LSPs. Continue reading
Cyracom Chairman and CEO Jeremy Woan talks at SlatorCon San Francisco 2018 about how RFP due diligence is becoming ever more stringent, why video interpreting’s adoption is a conundrum, and how commoditization would affect the industry. Continue reading
An interpreter accused multi-billion listed company of passing off human interpretation as the output of its AI translation engine on social media. The post sparked off a media frenzy questioning company’s marketing spin. Continue reading
It has been a busy summer 2018 for the US legal and healthcare interpretation industry with President Trump’s immigration policy boosting demand for rarer languages, states building out language services for voters, and local governments pushing back on interpreter pay demands. Continue reading
Slator readers give their opinion on public sector demand for language services and technology, the impact of startups on the industry in the next three years, the highest potential growth regions, and how neural machine translation should be evaluated. Continue reading
European Asylum Support Office (EASO) launches one of the bloc’s largest language services RFPs in 2018. The majority of spend goes to traditional interpreting in Greece, Cyprus and Bulgaria with a modest EUR 73k earmarked for a Remote Interpretation pilot. Continue reading
The Department of Health Care Services has issued a request for proposal seeking projects that would assess federal and state requirements for medical interpretation services across the state. Continue reading
A group of MEPs cut off power to a Parliamentary meeting in Strasbourg on Tuesday July 3, 2018 in support of interpreters’ demands in relation to working conditions at the European Parliament. Continue reading
Professor Laura Burian, the new dean of the Middlebury Institute’s Graduate School of Translation, Interpretation, and Language Education, says her priority is to adapt the curriculum to prepare students to lead in a rapidly evolving language and technology market. Continue reading
Hansel, the Finnish government’s centralized procurement unit, has just announced contract awards to a total of 12 providers for a justice and litigation services and interpretation tender, worth EUR 24m (USD 28.3m). Continue reading
The Parkland Health and Hospital System in Dallas, Texas is on a recruitment drive, seeking to double the size of their existing in-house team of Spanish interpreters in a million dollar plus cost saving initiative. Continue reading
The California Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) is seeking public comment on a new interpreter fee regulation, which is also envisioned to streamline how interpreters are selected and paid for work in the medical-legal field. Not everyone is happy. Continue reading
Two Paris-based language service providers won the bidding for medico-social interpreting and written translation services for the city government. Continue reading
A dozen Danish government agencies related to the judicial sector issue a massive collective tender for language services. The entire contract will be awarded to a single vendor in order to “achieve cost savings and economies of scale”. Continue reading
Slator went big in Japan with SlatorCon Tokyo on Feb 28, 2018. Language industry leaders from Japan and Asia gathered at the hip Trunk Hotel in the heart of Shibuya to get an update on what’s happening in Japan’s language industry and network with peers. Continue reading
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