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Is the Machine Translation Market Maturing?
November/December 2022 Issue
By Jost Zetzsche One sign of a maturing industry or branches within an industry are companies that evolve to cater to that specific industry branch. When all kinds of companies and products rose up in the early 2000s to cater specifically to translators (I’m not thinking of translation environment tools here, but things like accounting […]
Ridiculous Generosity
September/October 2022 Issue
I’m so happy to announce that we’ll once again have a Dictionary Exchange at ATA’s 63rd Annual Conference in Los Angeles (October 12–15, 2022). Many of you know that this has been my favorite ATA event during the past few years because it allows us to be ridiculously generous with our own dictionary treasures while […]
The All-New Trados
July/August 2022 Issue
I had a conversation about the new Trados with Daniel Brockmann, the principal product manager at RWS, and his colleague Andrew Thomas, the senior director for Trados marketing. Before the conversation I felt pretty sure we would be talking about Trados 2022, which was released at the end of May. It turns out we did […]
Selling Data
May/June 2022 Issue
In 2004, I started a company with Donna Parrish, one of the co-owners and co-organizers of the LocWorld conferences (https://locworld.com), called TM Marketplace. The idea behind the company was to facilitate the leasing of translation memories (TMs) between parties. These TMs could either be used for traditional TM lookup services or as training material for […]
Crowdin
March/April 2022 Issue
Crowdin (https://crowdin.com) has undergone tremendous change over the years. It has evolved into a company with 65 full-time employees and the focus of its tool has completely shifted. Crowdin is the cloud-based localization management tool that first appeared during the heyday of translation crowdsourcing and offered an inexpensive way to have files in software development […]
Voice Recognition in Windows 11
January/February 2022 Issue
Operating systems have become increasingly less important now that so much has moved to the cloud and so many browser-based applications don’t care whether you run them on Windows, macOS/iOS, Linux, or Android. On the other hand, there are still plenty of applications that depend either completely or mostly on the operating system, including many […]
Intento for Translators
November/December 2021 Issue
What are the pros and cons of using a tool like Intento that allows you simultaneous access to dozens of machine translation (MT) engines? (When I say “a tool like,” I’m really not being particularly accurate because it’s actually the only tool that does what it does.) If you’ve used generic MT engines like those […]
Data Privacy and MT Engines
July/August 2021 Issue
I know some of you might not be enthusiastic about me writing again about data privacy when using generic machine translation (MT) engines like Google, Microsoft, and DeepL. This is partly because I’ve done so a number of times already.1 Also, I think many might be using the data privacy issue as a kind of […]
Social Media and Translators
March/April 2021 Issue
Since the use of social media has become increasingly important for my business (and many of yours as well), I thought it would be a good idea to write about what I do on “my” social media platform. I also asked some colleagues to share how they fare on other platforms (more on that below). […]
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From the President
From the President: Looking Back while Moving Forward
From the President-Elect
From the President-Elect: ATA63: One for the Books!
From the Executive Director
From the Executive Director: With Change Come Possibilities and New Perspectives
Business Practices
Freelance Translator’s Client Reference List
GeekSpeak
Is the Machine Translation Market Maturing?
Resource Review
Bilingual Review Files: A Productivity Aid or a Waste of Time?
Certification Forum
“I Failed the Practice Test. Now What?”
New Certified Members
New Certified Members
