Autonomous Car Data: Future Cars Run on Data, Not Gasoline
When people first learn about the concept of autonomous cars, right away, most of them intuit the system’s incredible reliance on data. The car needs…
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Wearable Technology Localization: The Essentials
Technology is integrating deeper into our lives, and our wardrobe as well. Whether it’s smart glasses, watches, earpieces or full body suits, wearables are here…
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Localization Tools: 8 Tools Your Team Needs to Run Effectively
Localization requires the use of many different tools. The right localization tools make life easier for everyone involved in localization projects. But what tools are…
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Data Collection Methods for Emerging Technology
“How do I develop a data collection method for new, innovative technology?” To put it in a new perspective, how is one supposed to create…
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How Does Speech Recognition Technology Work?
Speech recognition software is an ever increasing part of our lives, though thankfully not like the sci-fi movies of the ’90s led us to believe.…
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Essential Steps For Testing Technologies: Dos and Dont’s
Globalme is a language and technology company – we do localization, data collection, and testing for all kinds of emerging tech. This includes anything from…
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Globalme Does Chinese Speech Data Collection in Chengdu, China
Once again, team Globalme hit the road for another fun speech data collection project abroad. This time, our Chinese speech data collection project brought us…
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In-Car Speech Recognition: The Past, Present, and Future
“Alexa, adjust the temperature to 75 degrees.” “Siri, find the phone number for a plumber in Ashford.” “Cortana, retrieve the file marked Flora Database.” Everyone…
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Coffee Rituals and Italian Speech Data Collection in Rome
Italy, the country of fast cars and tasty food – arguably one of the most beautiful cities in the world, and of course, there’s the…
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The Cultural Differences You Should Know before Doing Business in China
Over the past few months, Globalme conducted two speech-related data collection projects in China. In one project, we invited 600+ native Mandarin speakers to come…
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How Did We Test Cortana, Google Now & Siri in Foreign Languages?
Last weekend we did a guest post for VentureBeat comparing Siri, Cortana and Google Now in five different languages – English, French, Italian, German and Mandarin. We…
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Innovative Uses of Speech Recognition Today
Voice-activated digital assistants have already made quite the splash; debuting on our mobile phones, computers, smartwatches, in our cars, and even in our homes. Now,…
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Balancing Time, Quality & Cost of Translation
I recently put this simple chart together to explain in a graphical way, my own understanding of the relationship between cost, throughput time, and quality…
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The Key Elements of Usability Testing: Usability Testing is Useless. Unless…
If you clicked on this post, chances are you don’t need me to tell you that usability testing is important. But just in case you…
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Speech Recognition Technology Overview
Speech recognition technology is something that has been dreamt about and worked on for decades. From R2-D2’s beep-booping in Star Wars to Samantha’s disembodied but…
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