The US State Department is looking for 1,000 freelance linguists to renew the one-year contracts it first awarded in October 2017. Up to USD 20m has been earmarked in total with individual limit set at USD 150,000 annually. Continue reading
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WebCEO enlists users as volunteers to translate its software-as-a-service SEO platform and has turned out more than 2 million words in the last year through its Crowd Translation Center. Continue reading
Autodesk’s Director of Localization Solutions Jennifer Johnson talks about why she outsources production entirely to vendors, how audits are used to ensure translation quality, and what she thinks neural machine translation’s impact will be on the localization process. Continue reading
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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
Prague-based indie video game developer Keen Software House has found an innovative approach to localization initiated by a highly engaged community of gamers who volunteered to translate its flagship game into their native language. Continue reading
The final ruling settles the legal challenge posed by Dublin-based Word Perfect Translation Service Ltd. to a contract awarded to a rival LSP for the supply of state interpreters to the state immigration service in 2016. Continue reading
Mozilla’s flagship product, the Firefox web browser, ships in 103 languages. All products of the free software community are localized, but they have a unique community-based approach to localization. Continue reading
Facebook is open sourcing its unified deep learning framework PyTorch 1.0, the underlying technology that supports AI and many of its products including Translate. Continue reading
Join senior language service company executives at Elia’s business retreat in Sicily, Italy on May 3-4, 2018 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
Non-staff interpreters working in US immigration courts received a favorable ruling from the National Labor Relations Board in their complaint against government services contractor SOS International (SOSi). Continue reading
Qatar’s literary award for translation is open for nominations until August 31. This year’s featured language is German, but prizes are also available for works translated from Arabic to Bosnian, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Swahili (and vice versa). Continue reading
Netflix closes Hermes, its online subtitling and translation test and indexing system, and says it has ‘reached its capacity for each one of the language tests’. Continue reading
Serbian mobile game developer Nordeus sees demand for game localization rising as the global games market continues to grow. The volume will be there as well as the fun, says Localization Lead Jasmin Jelača. Continue reading
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