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In the translate plus blog you'll find entries written by a wide range of authors from within our company, offering you valuable insight and perspectives on the topics that matter to you most.

Medical translation is one of the most challenging and important language services in the industry. People’s lives and the quality...
Between all the emails, blog posts and countless other pieces of content modern brands need to create, businesses have never...
Today’s brands reach out to a wide range of target audiences and each of these has unique needs and expectations....
Translation technology has multiplied enormously over the past five years, largely thanks to tech giants like Google and Microsoft. By...
Translating a website might not seem like a particularly tricky task until you actually give it a go yourself. It...
Desktop publishing (DTP) is the process of creating visual documents, such as magazines, posters, product packages and signs. Whenever text...
Social media translation is a crucial tool for brands with international audiences. Managing your online presence in one language is...
Simple translation might not always be right for your brand – this is why creative translation aims to go above and...
With 2018 well and truly behind us, there is little time to look back and take stock of what happened...
Machine translation is a misunderstood technology, hyped up as something that will replace human language experts. This is a symptom...
Behind all the glitzy marketing messages, when a consumer buys one of your products, it is the technical documentation that...
With transcription technology improving every year, it is easy to think we will soon get to a point where businesses...
Face to face interpreting breaks down language barriers in situations where communication would otherwise be impossible. From courtrooms across the...
Video localisation moves beyond simple translation to make your footage more compelling and viewable for each of your target audiences....
Automatic translation has advanced a lot over the past five years and professional translators regularly use the technology to help...
Translating one document can be a challenge but handling an entire project of hundreds or thousands of documents is a...
When it comes to translating video content, subtitles are the most common way of delivering content in multiple languages. Aside...
Today’s brands are required to produce an overwhelming amount of content on consistent basis. Finding the right mix of creating...
PHOTO: Shutterstock  The headline facts Among web editors, developers, information managers and system architects, there was much talk in 2018...
With the rise of video marketing in the social media age, brands everywhere are turning to video content as a...
Technologies like machine learning and artificial intelligence are producing a new breed of smart software that is capable of making...
Social media is a vital marketing channel for brands in every industry but only 30% of marketers say their content...
Translation memory (TM) is changing the way language service companies like ourselves handle projects, allowing us to do more in...
We have published multiple articles on this blog with examples of when transcreation could have saved major brands like Nike...
Interpreting is a lot more complex than simply speaking in another language. Professional interpreters need to keep one step ahead...
If you have ever tried transcribing audio content into text, you will know how difficult it is to do both...
Going global online often seems quite overwhelming. Developing your digital home is a long process in the first place, so...
Video marketing is crucial to international businesses, but creating footage for global audiences is no simple task. In many cases,...
In the modern day where auto-generated YouTube subtitles are only a button away, it is easy to think paying for...
Sometimes translation is not enough to adapt content or products for foreign-speaking markets. The translation process itself has a knock-on...
With global industries like the pharmaceutical business, booming travel sectors around the world and more people emigrating than ever, medical...
Translation has changed a lot over the past few decades and it takes a lot more than language expertise to...
Machine translation has made huge amounts of progress over the past decade, but it still has the reputation of being...
Choosing a voiceover artist to represent your entire brand can be a tricky process. Luckily, we have been helping companies...
The translation of advertising material is a highly complex process due to the kind of language brands use in their...
Desktop Publishing (DTP) translation adapts graphics and other visual documents for multiple languages. Unlike a regular text file, translating something...
When you have an ongoing translation project, certain words are going to keep popping up in your content. Think industry...
Automotive translation is a broad concept that plays a crucial role at numerous stages of the design, manufacturing and sale...
According to Statista, global language services is set to become a $56.2bn industry by 2021, up from previous estimations by...
Sometimes translation alone is not enough to capture the meaning you are looking for in another language. In some cases,...
Doing business internationally comes with a range of legal obligations that will be foreign to you in more ways than...
Interpretation is crucial to breaking down language barriers in a wide range of environments – from courtrooms and doctors’ surgeries...
Legal translation deals with sensitive issues ranging from crime and lawsuits to major business deals – scenarios where the outcome...
When you produce video footage for multilingual audiences, you are obviously going to translate your content for each target market....
French poet and inventor, Charles Cross is remembered as the earliest inventor of a sound recording and reproduction machine. That...
When you target foreign-speaking markets with an online brand, you need more than translation to connect with audiences. Expectations of...
When you are translating video content, one of the first decisions you need to make is how to deliver new...
Creating advertising campaigns for international audiences is a tricky task. Each demographic comes with its unique wants and needs as...
As translation technology matures, we’re capable of handling complex projects in larger volumes without compromising quality. Used correctly, tools like...
In the digital age where artificial intelligence, big data and virtual reality are constantly grabbing our attention, it’s easy to...