by Tallin Johnson | Oct 28, 2015 | Machine vs. Human, Translation
For thousands of years people of different countries have been trading goods for the bettermentof their civilizations. Today, importation and exportation of goods and services is as competitiveand complex as ever. With the competition and complexity comes the...
by Tallin Johnson | Mar 20, 2015 | Machine vs. Human, Translation, Translation Management, UNIFY
Translation software has been around for quite some time already, and while we all use it (because we DO, let’s admit it), the debate concerning its “proper” use goes on every day. Certainly, there are different levels of use when it comes to translation software....
by Tallin Johnson | Sep 17, 2013 | Machine vs. Human, Translation
Machines can do amazing things, but they can’t do everything. One thing they don’t do so well? Communicate. Frankly, if your computer were a person, with those communication skills, he’d be on his third wife by now. So why would people trust a...
by Tallin Johnson | Jun 14, 2013 | Machine vs. Human, Translation
This week, a so-called breakthrough in real-time, automated translation has made the headlines in the languages and translation sections of the international press. Not in a particularly flattering way, though. The new technology is called “Lexifone”, and it’s main...
by Tallin Johnson | May 7, 2013 | Machine vs. Human, Translation
To think that the act of translating means the act of simply transforming words from one language into words in another language is a big misconception. That would, by definition, mean that a single person who is fluent in two languages could potentially do a...
by Tallin Johnson | Mar 14, 2013 | Machine vs. Human, Translation
As a translator myself, I always harbor a subconscious fear of finding silly mistakes in the texts that I write, or even worse, of receiving bad feedback from a client saying that the translation was not up to his/her standards. This is not a good thing; anxiety and...
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