memoQ talks

Adam Bittlingmayer is the CEO & Co-Founder of ModelFront, a company that has built a platform for AI-driven machine translation quality prediction.  Adam explains how companies can save time and money by being able to accurately predict the quality of machine-translated content.  He also touches on various topics related to AI and localization. 

ModelFront
https://www.modelfront.com/

Ana Sofia Correia is a professional medical translator and medical writer.  In this episode Ana Sofia explains how she got her start in medical translation and writing,  and talks about the reality of working as a freelancer.  She also discusses the most common workflows and content in medical translation, translation for clinical trials, the importance of readability, best practices for using LinkedIn, the pros and cons of working as an in-house translator, the importance of mentoring, and future trends for technology and regulations in life sciences translation.

Ana Sofia Correia
https://www.anasofiacorreia.com/

Olivier Debeugny is the Founder and CEO of Lingua Custodia a leading provider of machine translation (MT) services to a wide variety of banks and other financial services firms. Olivier talks about why and how he started Lingua Custodia and the different types of content that are frequently translated in the financial services space.  He also discusses quality, regulatory, and security concerns, and gives advice to LSPs and translators on how best to adopt MT in their workflows.

Lingua Custodia
https://www.linguacustodia.finance/en/welcome/

memoQ
https://www.memoq.com/

Konstantin Dranch is a well-known language industry researcher and the Co-Founder of Custom.MT.  In this episode, Konstantin shares his views regarding how ChatGPT and large language models (LLMs) will be used by companies in the localization industry.  He also talks about how LSPs and enterprises can accelerate their deployment of machine translation and AI by using external consultants.

Custom.MT
https://custom.mt/

memoQ talks
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 Tina just returned from her trip to Denmark where she set up Comunica's branch for the Nordics. We discuss the various aspects involved in running and growing her boutique agency business, what makes an agency 'boutique', how the team is structured, what the cooperation with freelancers is like and what matters the most, as well as some cultural differences between the two very different places like the cold European north and the vibrant, sunny south of Spain.

www.comunica.dk
https://comunicatranslations.com/
https://skrapling.com/

00:01:19 - Expanding Comunica's physical presence in the Nordics
00:06:30 - The first steps in opening the new branch
00:08:04 - The very beginnings of Comunica
00:11:51 - What differentiates a boutique agency from a big one
00:13:45 - The structure of the core team
00:15:05 - The team of translators
00:17:04 - Cultural adaptation
00:21:17 - Do you feel more Spanish or Danish?
00:22:46 - Tech talk
00:26:22 - Skrapling
00:28:05 - Terminology creation
00:28:47 - How do you choose your clients?
00:31:11 - External translators
00:32:20 - What are the qualities that make a translator the company's favorite?
00:37:05 - Final thoughts

David Hansfield is the EVP of Global Sales at Dotsub, a provider of technology and services to add captions and voiceovers into online videos.  David explains the workflow and processes used for video translation and localization and discusses several related topics including pricing models, the use of AI and synthetic voice overs.

https://dotsub.com/

Charles Campbell is the Founder and President of Translation Back Office.  Charles talks about his experience at localization industry events and shares his thoughts on how to make them more enjoyable, memorable,  and effective.  He also introduces one of the industry's newest events, Vamos Juntos, which will be held for the first time on March 24-25th 2023 in Rio de Janeiro.

Translation Back Office

Vamos Juntos Event

Rick Antezana is the CEO of Dynamic Language.  In this episode Rick talks about how he got his start in the language services industry and some of the lessons he's learned related to sales, marketing, and leadership.

Dynamic Language
https://www.dynamiclanguage.com/

GALA Loc Mixer - Seattle  (April 6th, 2023)
https://www.gala-global.org/events/events-calendar/gala-loc-mixer-seattle-usa

We talk with Erik about what makes translators successful, what to pay attention to, how to acquire new clients, keep the existing ones, favorite books, travel - including where he parked his yacht, and all those things that translators never say, openly, at least.

Richard Sikes, Senior Consultant - Business Services at memoQ, provides an overview of the linguistic validation (LV) process and explains how memoQ's Business Services team developed the functionality to support LV workflows for our customers.

Note:
During part of this discussion, Richard uses a PowerPoint presentation. Listeners wanting to view the slides can do so by watching the video of the podcast on memoQ's Youtube channel. 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB6oSH6AfH9NVwwOsyG-ZbM3LNc2l3A5z