Technology

Smart homes are increasing in popularity around the globe. Today, around a quarter of North American homes operate with some type of home automation, and this percentage is expected to rise to well over 40 percent in the coming years. Each part of the world in fact, will see a sharp spike in smart home […]

The global smart home market could likely reach well over USD 115 billion by 2023 with an annual growth rate of more than 20 percent. As home automation popularity increases, language services will become an increasingly heated topic with Amazon, Google, and Apple remaining at center stage in the multilingual high stakes competition.      […]

By July 2018, the TAUS Quality Dashboard benchmarking database had exceeded 100 million words. It is still small in comparison with TMS databases, but it is slowly becoming a relevant aggregation of translation project metadata from which we can start drawing early conclusions. TAUS Big Data Gets BiggerThe quest for an ideal TM / MT […]

The number of platforms that are available to us is a number that is growing everyday. On these platforms there are unlimited applications and features that we can use. This growth affects all aspects of our lives — both personal and professional.                            […]

Nimdzi Insights is proud to announce the Virtual Interpreting Technology database. Virtual Interpreting Technology (VIT) – one of the fastest growing areas in the language industry today. As we can see from the Nimdzi “What language service buyers want” report, technology is high on the list of priorities of languages service buyers (LSBs).      […]

Four out of the five fastest-growing language services companies in 2018 are media localization specialists. The media business has seen a boom over the last two years, and traditional translation companies are taking notice. Media localization won’t stay an uncontested insular niche for long. In fact, conventional LSPs and technology providers are moving into this sector and […]

In this episode of Globally Speaking, Renato and Michael welcome Julio Leal, Localization Manager at Ciena. We discuss the triggers for implementing CMS and TMS technology and how to get it done. Tune in to hear his experienced perspective.                                  […]

In January 2018 Unbabel closed a USD 23-million "Series B" funding round from M12, formerly Microsoft Ventures. This brought their total investment to USD 31.2 million, making Unbabel the 3rd most funded tech startup ever in the language space. The team vowed to disrupt the industry and become “the world’s language layer."        […]

While the use of AI bots might now be classified as "old school" in the tech world, there are some developers who are breathing new life and purpose into how we interact with this technology. One new and exciting area involves the policing of workplace harassment.                    […]

In today's podcast, we invite TAUS founder, Jaap Van der Meer, who discusses why the Dynamic Quality Framework (DQF) is so important for measuring quality in all aspects of the language industry. It's an episode you won't want to miss!                                […]