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Microsoft PowerToys
May/June 2023 Issue
By Jost Zetzsche I love little utilities or apps that do something very specific and do it specifically well. Windows has a lot of these, but typically they don’t do what they do particularly well—at least compared to other third-party utilities. Case in point: Windows’ zipping utility. It sort of works but not really when […]
Using Asana to Track Your Marketing Efforts with Ease
March/April 2023 Issue
By Molly Yurick One of my biggest struggles as a freelancer used to be tracking my marketing efforts on a messy Excel sheet that had around a thousand columns and three million rows. Due to my disorganization, I would forget to follow up with potential clients I had contacted, lose track of which agencies I […]
Terminology Management: What You Should Know
January/February 2023 Issue
By Marina Ilari Terminology management is the process of identifying, storing, and managing customer, company, or product-specific terminology that needs to be translated in a definitive way. Simply put, it’s the process of building a glossary with preferred translations (or ones the client doesn’t want used due to personal preferences) that you’ll then upload to […]
Bilingual Review Files: A Productivity Aid or a Waste of Time?
November/December 2022 Issue
By Andrew Bell Bilingual review files come in many shapes and sizes, but they all have one thing in common: they’re meant to facilitate the revision stage of a translation project. As you can see in the example in Figure 1 below, the bilingual review file consists of several columns. One column is reserved for […]
MultiTraiNMT: Neural Machine Translation for Everyone
September/October 2022 Issue
Neural machine translation (NMT) is on everyone’s mind. Its quality has become stunning, if not frightening, and it continues to improve even as we speak. Tech giants are investing tremendous amounts of capital in NMT applications. Language services providers, big and small, are deploying it in production. And translators are increasingly using it in their […]
Bonanza! Striking Translation Gold by Mining Parallel Texts
July/August 2022 Issue
Let me start with a confession: I barely passed translation theory in college. I scraped by with a C after several nights in a row of frantic caffeine-fueled essay writing. The problem? Theory bored me. If you talked to me about coherence and calque my eyes glazed over. Back then, I just wanted to translate. […]
Which iPad Is Best for Interpreting?
May/June 2022 Issue
In this column, I’ll answer a question I encounter at least once a month: “Which tablet is best for interpreting?” After sharing why I’m a big iPad fan, I’ll give you a rundown of all the options on the market. Here’s the good news. You don’t have to spend a fortune to get an excellent […]
Enhanced Productivity with Text Expansion
March/April 2022 Issue
Note: The following was originally published in Deep Focus, the newsletter of ATA’s Audiovisual Division: www.ata-divisions.org/AVD. I haven’t typed my full name or email address in years. Instead, I type abbreviations that get expanded after I type a punctuation mark or press a trigger key, such as the spacebar or Enter key. I also use […]
The New Espacenet Tools for Patents Translation
January/February 2022 Issue
Originally, the Espacenet interface (now called classic Espacenet) was available in the three official languages of the hosting European Patent Office (EPO) site: English, French, and German. The new Espacenet interface is now accessible in all the national languages of the patent offices connected to the database. In other words, the patent offices of the […]
