Localization Today

In his first-time interview, we ask Freelanly founder Fedor Khatlamadzhiev about his entrepreneurship, work-life balance, and the service he's offering to translators and interpreters around the world.

Over the course of the next eight months, the government of Canada’s Northwest Territories (NWT) will be accepting applications for grants toward the education and career development of Canadian translators and interpreters working in Indigenous languages.

The gaming industry is forecasted to grow at an explosive rate of over 9% in the next three years. One of the fastest-growing industries worldwide, the global games market is set to reach almost $257 billion by 2025, according to Statista. More than 2.5 billion people worldwide now play games regularly. 

Not all literary translators are paid equally — recently released survey results show that the income of literary translators varies significantly across different countries. One thing they mostly have in common, however, is that they largely struggle to earn a substantial income through literary translation alone.

A new study from Weglot and Nimdzi Insights suggests that machine translation (MT) is more accurate than some people might expect.

When a warning is added on a product — either voluntarily or due to legal requirements — the “Buy me! Consume me!” message is contradicted by a “Keep away!” message. How do manufacturers resolve that contradiction? In at least one case, the answer seems to be “through inattention.”

As the scientific community largely publishes in high-resource languages, languages like Navajo have been left behind, making it hard to translate scientific work adequately.

The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) announced earlier this week that it's launched an institute specifically dedicated to the development of language technology for Indian languages.

The largest healthcare provider in the state of Washington is currently facing a lawsuit over its use of faulty video remote interpreting (VRI) technology.

While brushing up on some Arabic vocabulary, one user pointed out that Google Translate's entry for the Arabic word meaning "plan" was accompanied by an example phrase that means "planning to blow up the car."