As a modern translator, there are many tools that are available now that translators in the past could only dream of having. Tools such as machine translation, spell check, macros, and online dictionaries are regularly used, leading to faster and even more accurate translations than translations of the past. However, one tool that translators might […]
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In the last post, we spoke a bit about the different types of machine translation as well as their advantages and disadvantages. For this post, we delve a little deeper into one of the more exciting machine translation methods, Neural Machine Translation. As a quick recap, Neural Machine Translation is where deep neural networks are […]
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When machine translation is mentioned, the most common thing to jump to mind is Google Translate. To most people, this is the face of machine translation and any other type of machine translation is just the same as Google Translate, but inferior or superior in some shape or form. However, there are actually four different […]
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One of the most common things that both translators and interpreters hear is that their jobs are going to become obsolete because of machine translation. Because engines like Google Translate exist, there are many who are unfamiliar with the interpretation/translation field that are confident that though machine translation might not be perfect, it is on […]
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The translation and interpretation industry is a typical example of how technology has been moving us towards tomorrow’s world. Monterey Language Services recently posed a question about automation in the workplace to people who are interested in working with us in the office. We found that the answers are interesting and representative, and therefore we […]
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Can this picture become a reality for the translation and interpretation industry? As interpreters, we are always interested in the development of interpretation technology, including the possibility of “robot” interpreters. About a year ago, we wrote about the potential of interpretation software and Microsoft’s efforts in that area. Their software is meant to analyze your speech, translate […]
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Recently, researchers from Microsoft Corporation gave a presentation in China, showcasing the company’s latest language software, which was able to turn an English speech into Chinese—in the speaker’s own voice. Will this software eventually replace human translators and interpreters? We think not. And here are our thoughts: The technique behind this revolutionary translation and interpretation […]
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Fact: As of 2012, among the 7 billion people in the world, roughly half of them are considered to be at least bilingual. Fact: Based on the 2010 data, the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics also project 58,400 translation and interpretation jobs available to translators and interpreters. Question: How many professional translators and interpreters […]
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The network of interpreters and translators connected with Monterey Language Services, myself included, are human beings with a passion for language. This means that we will not settle for anything less than the highest quality in our services to you, because our definition of quality is directly related to our passion – our “humanness” if […]
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“Top of the mornin to ya!” means a heartfelt “Good morning!” in idiomatic Irish/American. Yet none of the following word for word translations convey the true meaning of the phrase. French: “Top des Mornin à Ya!” German: “Spitze der Mornin zu Ya!” Simplified Chinese: “顶部以遐的早晨! When most people think of translation, they may think of […]
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