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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Behind Skype Translator – an interview with Olivier Fontana
Over the last few decades, technology has done a pretty remarkable job at bringing us together. A video call is all that it takes to…
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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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eLearning Software Comparison: Articulate Studio, Lectora Inspire, Captivate & Storyline
If you’re just beginning your search into eLearning authoring software, then you might be feeling a little overwhelmed. There’s a wide array of platforms to…
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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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Localization Basics: What is a Translation Management System (TMS)?
If you’re new to localization and/or TMS, here’s a quick definition for you.
TMS stands for Translation Management System.
Now that that’s out of the way, let’s look at what TMS does, and what its main features are.
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Localization Engineers: Taking Technology Around the World
To understand the localization process, it helps to get a sense of the people who make it happen. We’ve previously posted about localization QA testers; now we’re going to talk about the techies, also known as localization engineers.
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Looking at CATs: SDL Trados Studio 2014
For “Looking at CATs” we ask a professional translator with experience working with a specific CAT tool to give us their perspective. What are the tool’s strengths and drawbacks, and why do they choose it over the other tools on the market?
For this edition, Tobey Kim tells us about SDL Trados Studio 2014.
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GlobalSight: Getting Rid of The Java Security Dialog
For GlobalSight users, the Java security popup can be seriously annoying. Here’s one way to eliminate it.
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Twitter: Why is it so popular in Japan?
It’s no secret that Twitter is hugely popular in Japan – in fact, Twitter is Japan’s favorite social network.
This is despite the fact Japanese people aren’t especially eager to join social networks, even though they’re generally enthusiastic about other new technologies.
So why is Twitter such a hit?
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ASP.NET Application Localization and Internationalization
ASP.NET is one of the most common web application development platforms. In order to save money, reduce localization/internationalization defects and shorten the time to market, it’s important to consider localization as part of the development process.
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