Localization Today

Meta received some harsh words from frustrated Spanish speakers after a shaky international rollout of its game Horizon Worlds.

If you were to visit localization folks around Europe, what would be some of the undeniable recurring themes? With this question in mind, I set out to meet with a half a dozen industry leaders in the flesh this summer. For the past three weeks, I  traveled around Europe, talking with leaders to get a better pulse on EU localization industry trends. 

TransPerfect, a New York City-based language service provider (LSP), announced this week that it is opening an office in Noida, India, a satellite city on the outskirts of Delhi in the National Capital Region.

The optimal process for translating and localizing mountains of copy has yet to be discovered. It’s a process of trial and error that Derick Fajardo, head of machine translation at Harvard Business Publishing knows all too well. In this episode, he shares his experience and insights in an interview hosted by MultiLingual's Editor-in-Chief, Cameron Rasmusson.

The 2022 version of Trados Studio comes with a revamp of the whole product portfolio around the cloud. Not just Trados Studio, mostly addressed at freelancers, but also Trados Team and Trados Enterprise.

Amazon’s Alexa AI team was recently ranked in first place on a shared task at the International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), which focused on developing a machine translation (MT) system that could produce output with different levels of formality in the target language.

Elden Ring is a massive game. For a game of this magnitude to succeed, localization, culturalization, and transcreation are a must. 

We use technology not just to communicate on projects but also to assist in the work, and it's become our competition. 

The localization supply chain is very crowded at the moment, and AI is constantly knocking at the door. We should not be scared, but at the same time, we should act for better conditions for everyone. 

Two years ago, the Trump administration stripped the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of numerous language access provisions, citing their cost as a burden on the economy. Just a few weeks ago, those provisions were reintroduced along with a handful of other measures that would strengthen language access in the United States’ healthcare system.