To meet the demands of a growing team and following the continued year-on-year success of the company, The Translation People is pleased to announce that its Birmingham office has relocated to larger premises. Although still based in Birmingham, the team have moved from Concorde House to a larger office in Vienna House, situated in Birmingham…
Professional translation services must interpret the message – and not just the words – of the speaker, according to a University of Nottingham team. Dr Xiaohui Yuan of the School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies is among them, and is leading the Translating Cultures in International Mediation project to help identify what is important…
Last week we looked at a University of Houston approach to professional translation between sign language and spoken words; this week we look at how technical translation could, in future, be carried out by robots that have learned language in an organic way. The University of Hertfordshire is working with a childlike robot dubbed the…
Professional translation services typically concern the mother tongues of major world economies – English, French, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese, to name just a few. However, a new kind of professional translation could soon be possible thanks to an electronic breakthrough developed in Houston. While MyVoice may sound like a NASA innovation, it was actually designed…
Professional translation services are growing in demand, in response to the wider availability of automated translation technologies, according to a new research report. The global market study of outsourced translation and interpreting services by Common Sense Advisory explains that automated translations have done nothing to slow demand for professional translation services. Instead, the wider awareness…
Operations Manager Jasmin Schneider recently gave a presentation at Aston University about employment within the languages industry, and gave students advice on their applications. Aston University is one of a limited number of universities in the UK offering a course specifically for translation studies. The Translation People have a long standing relationship with the university,…
A bear-hug from the Governor of Massachusetts was the last thing businessman Steve Wilde expected when he announced his company was expanding into the US and opening a Boston office. Governor Deval Patrick’s friendly, if unorthodox gesture, came as Steve, Managing Director of Manchester-based The Translation People, attended a formal function during a visit to…
After spending two months with The Translation People’s Birmingham team, the time has come to say goodbye and to have a look back at what I’ve learnt. As a second year student of a Bachelor in Translation Studies (English and French) at the Ruprecht-Karls-University in Heidelberg Germany, I wanted to gain insight into the translation…
Globalsight is a Translation Management System (TMS) that is used by The Translation People and its translators to increase productivity and streamline processes for its clients. This on-line tool, which is highly customisable to different workflows, offers the following features: Documents are submitted via the system rather than by email or ftp Translators can either work…
Last July saw Alan White from The Translation People visit Salford University once again to present the award for Best Translation Student from the University’s MA and BA programmes. The yearly award, presented at the Lowry Centre in Salford Quays, is in recognition of the need to promote excellence in language studies in order to…
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