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Google brings automatic e-mail translation to Gmail – ZDNet (blog)

Digitaltrends.comGoogle brings automatic email translation to GmailZDNet (blog)Well for both of we Google's upcoming Automatic Message Translation for Gmail can be what we want. According to Jeff Chin, the Google Translate Product Manager, “We heard instantly from Google Apps for Company consumers which this became a killer …Google rolls out automatic translation for all Gmail [...]

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Word Games: Machine Translation and Speech Recognition Evolve – IT Business Edge (blog)

Word Games: Machine Translation and Speech Recognition EvolveIT Business Edge (blog)The bottom line is that the interconnected worlds of speech recognition and machine translation technology are evolving quickly. Certainly, exotic lingual processing is nothing new: It was a big part of the Cold War and deeply rooted in the general … Translations News | Translation [...]

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Translators fight the fatal effects of the language gap – The Guardian (blog)

The Guardian (blog)Translators fight the fatal effects of the language gapThe Guardian (blog)Thicke, 54, a Canadian who came to Paris to write the great Canadian novel but founded a translation company instead, had pinpointed a glaring but little-noticed paradox in the information revolution. Thanks to the internet and mobile phones, … Translations News | Translation [...]

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Yale University Press introduces new online forum for works of translation – New York Daily News (blog)

Yale University Press introduces modern online forum for functions of translationNY Daily News (blog)(Image: Yale University Press) Aside from accessible titles like Syrian poet Adonis' "Adonis: Selected Poems" plus Norman Manea's "The Lair," the site's active products include interviews plus excerpts (including 1 from famous translator Edith … Translations News | Translation Rss

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Ortsbo adds language translation on the fly – ZDNet (blog)

ITBusiness.caOrtsbo adds language translation on the flyZDNet (blog)By Heather Clancy | March 21, 2012, 4:24am PDT Summary: Real-time translation service currently supports Windows Live, Google Talk and Facebook Chat services; a plug-in for Microsoft Outlook is also available. Web sites have a way of making the world …Real-time translation for e-reader marketUbergizmoIntertainment's Ortsbo™ Initiates US [...]

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Vocre’s live translation video tool: Breaking language barriers – SmartPlanet.com (blog)

Vocre's live translation movie tool: Breaking code barriersSmartPlanet.com (blog)By Charlie Osborne | March 8, 2012, 5:43 AM PST At the fifth yearly LAUNCH festival, an ambitious business called Vocre prepared a sturdy first for exactly what it calls the “next level” inside code translation. Vocre 2.0's innovation? A real-time translation … and more » Translations News [...]

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Translation in the New Millennium: I, Translator – B2B Marketing Online (blog)

Translation in the New Millennium: I, TranslatorB2B Marketing Online (blog)With all the new developments and increasing accessibility of electronic translation tools such as machine translations, some have argued that these technologies will eventually replace the human translator. Are human translators really essential for … Translations News | Translation Rss

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Mohammad and Kundera: On the Power of Humor and the Troubles of Translation – Huffington Post (blog)

Los Angeles TimesMohammad and Kundera: On the Power of Humor and the Troubles of TranslationHuffington Post (blog)Kundera, who initially wrote in Czech and then in French, has had many things to say over the years about the act of translation and has been extremely sensitive to its complications; like laughter and forgetting, it is a [...]

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Helping the World, One Translation at a Time – Huffington Post (blog)

Helping the World, One Translation at a TimeHuffington Post (blog)How did translation and interpreting companies give back and pay it forward over the past twelve months? Let us count the ways: Helping disseminate linguistic and cultural knowledge. If everyone spoke the same language, translation wouldn't be … and more » Translations News | Translation Rss

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The Other English William – Huffington Post (blog)

The Other English WilliamHuffington Post (blog)Considering his impact on the English language, and Englishness itself, even the great playwright must concede that he is but heir to what the translator left behind. Because English in the early 1500s was considered "the bottom of the pond," that is, … Translations News | Translation Rss

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