Translation and Language Industry Observations
Translation and Language Industry Observations
By David Grunwald If you are employed in the translation industry in any way, you have probably heard this one. Wait… you still have a job? Doesn’t AI do all of that now?” Or the classic: Why don’t people just use Google Translate? As someone who’s been in the business for years—and whose company is …
The AI revolution which started in 2022 has spawned a multitude of new translation websites and mobile apps which offer free machine translation. Are these new sites and apps going to threaten the hegemony shared by the well-known systems like Google, Bing and DeepL? Do these new sites offer features that were previously unavailable? This …
by David Grunwald Machine Translation, referred to as MT, has been around for over 50 years. Once considered a laughing stock that produced hilariously stupid translations, MT has advanced over the years and is now being used copiously. Industry veterans such as myself have been monitoring this progress through a progression of abbreviations: RBMT, SMT, …
Machine translation (MT) has made considerable progress in recent years. And it is poised to improve even further in the future, aided by tailwinds from the world of AI technology. But are you better off using machine translation over human translation services? Advantages of MT over Human Translation The obvious reason for your wanting to …
by Luke Smith The international language services market was valued at $60.68 billion in 2022 and is predicted to jump all the way to $96.21 billion by 2032. Tech advances and increased interconnectedness across all industries are clearly calling for more professional translators across the board. In response to this demand, translator training programs are …
by David Grunwald Jobs across numerous fields could be replaced, according to the company ChatGPT. The tech company, which has sparked debate in recent months, said it could “potentially replace jobs that involve written communication,” such as translation services and social media managers. (Yahoo Finance) In a recent interview, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna stated that A.I. …
by David Grunwald ChatGPT is still big news, even six months after it launched. The Italian government has banned its use in Italy. In Israel, a class action lawsuit has been filed against OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT. And Germany is also considering a ban on ChatGPT. Having said all of that, ChatGPT is emerging …
Machine translation (MT) has made tremendous progress in the last few years. And for certain kinds of texts, it may even produce nearly perfect results. But there are still some things that it still can’t do, while human translators can. MT will not find mistakes in the source text Nothing is 100% perfect. This certainly …
What is an unwritten language? Simply put, it is a language that is spoken but not written, and therefore has no written form by native speakers of that language. Unwritten languages by their very nature are obscure, and used by very few people. Spain for example has some dialects which are spoken by precious few …
As widely reported by various media, China has shut off access to Google Translate in mainland China. Users in China that try to access translate.google.cn or translate.google.com are redirected to a link to Google Translate Hong Kong. But that won’t work in China either. Chinese also blocked the Google Translate API, rendering all apps that …
The popularity and usage of free translation programs is rising. More and more translation software products are being announced every year. And more and more companies are using these apps to translate a wide range of content. The quality and reliability of machine translation is also improving steadily, which is another reason for the increasing …
Google Reverse Image Search Google Images has a feature which has been around since 2011, but is relatively unknown to many people. Reverse image search allows you to upload an image or a link to an image and find similar images and relevant information on the Internet. Unlike standard image search, where you enter a …
By David Grunwald Is your translator or translation agency translating your material from scratch or are they using machine translation in their workflow? I contend that many or even most professional translators are using machine translation (e.g., Google Translate) in their work. But they will never tell their customers about it. Because if they do, …
