Stop the press: I’m on the 5th page of Google results!

News not perhaps worthy of such a sensationalist headline, but when you consider that for the search term “French to English translator” there is only one other freelance professional translator ahead of me – the famous, and very well regarded Corinne McKay (whose birthday, I understand, falls on International Translators Day) – it’s not such [...]

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How to: CAT tool translation on mobile phone

There’s something I’d like to share with the translator community; I’ve figured out how to run a CAT tool on my Nokia N900 mobile phone. This is the phone of geeks, anyway, featuring a full Linux operating system and root access (admin rights) to let you customise any aspect of the device. It even has [...]

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Voice recognition for translation – three myths, three facts

As Moore’s law pushes the capabilities of technology ever harder, has voice recognition finally got the power it needs to come of age? With more sceptics than converts, I thought I’d write a post about my experiences with it over the last few years to clear away the myths. And as a special aside for [...]

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Translation 2047

Interested in the future of translation? Pieter Francberg has kindly written to us from 2047.

“Pieter Francberg here, author of future international bestsellers “Freedom isn’t free” and “Once for my baby”, published in any language you like.”

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