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Jan 19, 2024 • 34min
What lies beyond the language barrier for Language Service Providers?
Fuentes Corradi urges LSPs to adapt their services to the AI era or risk obsolescence: “Without a new alignment, future LSP offerings will not meet enterprise goals and potentially drive companies to search for new collaborations and holistic offerings.”

Jan 19, 2024 • 16min
Hameed Afssari: Localized Software for Everyone, Everywhere
These days, software is essential to how we get things done, with certain apps used ubiquitously throughout the world. Having led localization and internationalization teams at two global software companies — first Microsoft and now Uber — Hameed Afssari believes that software products should be easy to use for everyone, no matter what language they speak or where they live.

Jan 19, 2024 • 7min
Clinical and Tonal Accuracy
Rughetti and Millet share their advice for effective language service planning in light of new EU regulations on clinical studies. With a streamlined submission process and tightened timescales, high-quality translation is essential to ensure patient engagement and safety.

Jan 19, 2024 • 22min
Women in Localization Awards: STAR and Kudos
Women in Localization prioritizes recognizing and honoring the volunteers who offer their time and expertise to host workshops, organize gatherings, facilitate communication, and much more. To that end, the nonprofit has implemented not just one, but two award programs to highlight individuals who truly went above and beyond the call of duty.

Jan 19, 2024 • 15min
What’s in a Word? Conveying Judeo-Christian Guilt into Tibetan Language
The notion that a person can feel guilt, like someone can feel joy or sadness, is foreign to the Tibetan psyche. Also foreign to the Tibetan worldview is the concept of victimhood as a fixed identity status. Kubota considers what we can learn from these perspectives in dealing with Western criminal justice systems.

Jan 15, 2024 • 7min
12 Translation Management Systems A year in review

Jan 8, 2024 • 7min
Standing Tall in a Small Market

Jan 1, 2024 • 13min
Negotiating Deals in the Localization Industry

Dec 19, 2023 • 7min
How to Create a Realistic Language Access Plan
Here’s what you need to know about legal rights afforded to consumers and the factors you should consider in putting together a language access plan.
Read the full article at: https://multilingual.com/how-to-create-a-realistic-language-access-plan/

Dec 18, 2023 • 14min
Why Differentiation Is So Hard in the Language Services Space And what to do about it
In the language services space, practitioners and clients alike note that many companies sound the same. They use the same tone of voice, describe their similar services in the same way, and list the same differentiators. Yet, when everyone has such similar differentiators, they lose all their meaning.
Read the full article at: https://multilingual.com/?p=211285