Technology

USD 500 million in data services and machine intelligence work. This is what Appen, Lionbridge, Pactera, Welocalize, Alibaba LS, and other techy language service providers (LSPs) will likely generate in revenue this year. That’s close to 7 percent of revenue generated by the global Top-100 LSPs, and it’s on par with the volume they derive […]

In a galaxy not too far away, neural machine translation (NMT) has been on everyone’s lips, lauded as the next best thing since… machine translation. While NMT has been around for a number of years now, you could argue the hype (and the expectations) surrounding it are as strong as ever. Or is it?  We […]

Throughout history, the game changer for business has always been technology. Manufacturers replaced artisans, factories took over from manufacturers, automation and telemetry made most of the repetitive manual labor obsolete. From personal computers to the Internet and mobile commerce, in the past 30 years, the world has seen the emergence of the digital economy which […]

Nimdzi is always on the lookout for new and improved technology in the localization space. The number of individual products mapped in this one-of-a-kind atlas has increased from over 400 to over 500 in the last year. Let’s have a look at what’s new and what has changed in language technology over the last year.

This report is the result of research conducted gathering data from multiple sources. Surveys and extensive interviews were held with buyer-side localization managers, vendor companies, and third-party industry observers and analysts to provide a comprehensive analysis in this report. For insights from the buyer side, we reached out to companies that are involved in different […]

There exists an assumption that if a translator doesn’t have a paid CAT tool license, he or she cannot be trusted as a professional. Who thinks that? Why, fellow translators. But can we really judge a professional by their toolkit or by the money they spend on special software licenses? More importantly, what are the […]

Today, machines translate more in a day than all human translators on the planet combined translate in a year. As machine translation (MT) becomes more widespread, its uses expand too. You could argue MT has replaced human translators in some scenarios. On the other hand, it also created new ones. The old questions of cost, […]

Rapidly developing markets of IT, video games, e-commerce, mobile applications, and others call for more flexibility in their processes. As more software teams transitioned to agile cycles, localization needed to “keep up.”, and a couple of years ago a trend of agile localization emerged.                       […]

How do companies find the human touch in a global ecosystem of increasingly prevalent language technology? How willing are clients to embrace innovative translation platforms? How do you combine human and translation technology to optimize the localization process and effectively deliver content internationally? These are some of the topics covered at the TAUS Global Content […]

GALA is the Globalization and Localization Association’s annual conference. The global, non-profit trade association aims to support the language industry by creating communities, championing standards, sharing knowledge, and advancing technology.                                           Conference Report: GALA 2019 […]