While workers worldwide ponder how artificial intelligence might affect their livelihoods, there’s one sector where that question is no longer hypothetical. Machine translation has reduced the amount ...

Kim Wallmach has previously received funding from the National Research Foundation. The United Nations marks International Translation Day every year to honour the work of language professionals.

The number of people employed in the translation and interpretation industry has doubled in the past seven years. Rather than replacing them, technology has helped translators and interpreters improve ...

In The Philosophy of Translation, Damion Searls investigates the essential differences—and similarities—between the task of the translator and of the writer. By just about any measure, Damion Searls, ...

Salvador Ordorica is the CEO of The Spanish Group LLC, a first-class international translation service that translates over 90 languages. Translation plays a crucial role in bridging the gap between ...

When you need to translate one language to another, either just to communicate or because you're trying to read something, you have tons of options—they're just not all that great at capturing what ...

After rolling out on smart speakers and displays earlier this year, Google’s interpreter real-time translation mode is finally landing on mobile. A far more handy application for such functionality, ...

Patricia Michelsen-King was observing the proceedings in a Chesterfield, Virginia, courtroom a few years ago when a man shouted in Spanish from the back of the courtroom, “I didn’t rape anybody!” ...

On 30 September, the feast of St. Jerome—a translator of the Bible and patron saint of translators—the translation community celebrates International Translation Day (ITD). Each year since 1991, the ...