Translation and Language Industry Observations
Translation and Language Industry Observations
The Fintech sector has experienced exponential growth in recent years, driven by increasing demand for digital financial services, advancements in technology, and changing consumer preferences. The sector is also attracting significant investment from VCs and other investors, as they recognize the potential for Fintech companies to disrupt traditional financial institutions and capture a share of …
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 …
by David Grunwald The marketing people at Microsoft scored a major coup earlier this month. In a brilliant move, they managed to breathe new life into a failed product. They also spooked their main competitor into making a marketing fiasco, and unnerved their competitor’s stockholders to a point where the stock lost over 10% in …
The web is abuzz with the changing tides in the search engine world. On February 8, 2023 Google lost over 7% in market value (to the tune of $100 billion) after its newly introduced chatbot Bard messed up the answer to a simple question. On February 8, 2023, the stock lost nearly 5% more for a …
Hebrew is not a widely spoken language: it is estimated that there are approximately 9 million people who speak Hebrew, with the majority of them residing in Israel. Hebrew is the official language of Israel and is widely spoken among Jews worldwide. It is also a widely studied language in Jewish and Talmudic law. But …
by David Grunwald What is ChatGPT? ChatGPT is an AI language model developed by OpenAI. It is a conversational AI model trained on a large corpus of text data to generate human-like responses to text inputs. ChatGPT is capable of answering questions, generating text, translating languages, and performing a wide range of language-related tasks. It …
The Hmong language is an ancient language that has been spoken by the Hmong people for centuries. It is a tonal language, meaning that the same word can have different meanings depending on the tone used to pronounce it. Hmong is spoken in China, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, and Myanmar. It is also spoken in the …
by Luke Smith It’s estimated that 15 to 20% of the world’s population is neurodiverse. That simply means that this subset of people thinks differently than what is considered “normal.” Their brains think things through and process information differently. For some, it’s a more obvious difference than others. While there is nothing “wrong” with being …
by David Grunwald The US has no official language. So even though English is the defacto national language, there is no federal law that mandates English usage in any official way. This may amaze some readers, but hundreds of thousands of US Latino citizens in South Florida speak no or, at the best, halting English. …
GTS has rolled out a new feature on our website: you can now get instant price quotes for SRT files in over 80 languages. The process of getting a price quote for translation of SRT files is fast and easy: click here, upload the SRT files and select the languages. The quote and delivery time …
Argentina’s national team did very well and reached the World Cup final with a convincing 3-0 win over Croatia, the reigning runners-up to the world champion. Led by captain Lionel Messi, Argentina’s win was never in doubt. In celebration of the win, team Argentina tweeted a post in several languages to announce their ascent to …
by David Grunwald The R-word is being mentioned a lot in recent weeks. Are we already in recession? Are we out of the recession? Are we going to be in recession? There are many opinions but no clear-cut answer. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos had some interesting things to say about the current state of the …
by DL Miller If you spend time on the web and you’re sensitive to language, then you have probably noticed that not all blogs and websites follow the same rules. You may have spotted unfamiliar spellings and punctuation on sites that are clearly professionally written and edited. Why is that? It’s because there’s more than …