Hi-Rez Studios, the developer of the popular free-to-play first-person shooterTribes: Ascend, the multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) Smite, and the hero shooter Paladins: Champions of the Realm, recently opened its fourth studio in Seattle. “We are trying to cover all parts of the world,” says Localization Director Estelle Bailly. Headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia, it has two other
The government of Singapore has launched a ‘Translation Talent Development Scheme’, which offers recipients a bond-free subsidy of up to 90% of costs – capped at SGD 10,000 (USD 7,647) per awardee – for training and courses related to translation, interpretation and language technology. The purpose of this scheme is to encourage local translators and
The Australian state of Queensland has awarded AUD 76.4m (USD 60.6m) translation and interpretation framework contract to meet the growing language needs of the immigrant community. The government tender announced in July 2017 sought proposals for language services, including interpreting services in migrant and refugee languages, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages, AUSLAN and other deaf languages and translation
A new law which took effect in Hungary on January 1, 2018 is ending the state monopoly on attested (or certified) translations. Article 62 of the Act CXXX of 2016 on the Code of Civil Procedure states that “if translation is necessary, simple translation may be applied, unless provided otherwise by law, a binding legal act of
The era of English as the lingua franca in Europe is at an end, and businesses in the United Kingdom will have to start communicating in French or German if they want to survive after Brexit. This was the light-hearted view from a British Irish friend of mine as we chatted over a pint of
The demand side remained strong in 2017, buoyed by at least three factors — the continued pooling of translation spending in the public sector that has led to many large contracts awarded during the year, an ever-expanding linguistic diversity across the world that underpins the need for governments to increase translation and interpreter spending, and
As of mid-November 2017, the US Federal Government has already awarded more funds to translation and interpretation contracts than it did for the whole of 2016. According to USAspending.gov’s records, year-to-date 2017 (as of November 22, 2017), the Federal Government has obligated USD 517.2m to translation and interpretation work, whereas spending for the entire year
EAGLE-EYED travellers snapped a range of seemingly ordinary signs captioned with English translations that are so poor - they're hilarious. Astounded tourists shared their funny discoveries online after noticing the painfully wrong signs Hysterical holidaymakers ranked the signs based on how bad their translations online. Below a picture of a sign which
Einstein : New AI of Salesforce Salesforce has entered the neural machine translation (NMT) race with their own model developed by their internal AI research lab, Einstein. The company’s relatively late to the game however, trailing behind Google, Microsoft, Baidu, and Facebook in adopting NMT. Announced in its Dreamforce 2017 event, the company claimed
