Tag Archives: Google Translate

The difference between TM and MT

Posted 190 days ago by John Gray

What is the difference between Machine Translation and Translation Memory? There seems to be some confusion about what, precisely, distinguishes Machine Translation from Translation Memory. This may be the result of the similarity of their acronyms in English – MT …

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Coming soon: eBooks!

Posted 218 days ago by John Gray

By way of a trailer for an upcoming blog post on eBooks and translation, I wanted to share a couple of quotes I found in the course of researching it. The first is Borges: “De todos los instrumentos del hombre, …

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BEST OF SPAMBOTS

Posted 343 days ago by John Gray

UPDATE: This is out of all control. Apparently there is an exponential tendency – approve one, and more and more spambots flock to your post. I’m not sure whether to close the comments or see exactly how far this can …

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Confidentiality and data protection at QuickSilver

Posted 359 days ago by John Gray

Following our blog post on the confidentiality issues connected to Google Translate, it seemed like a good moment to set out QuickSilver’s philosophy regarding confidentiality and data protection. By its very nature, the translation industry is concerned with confidentiality. Like …

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The dark side of Google Translate

Posted 389 days ago by John Gray

The inner workings of Google Translate are shrouded in a characteristic mix of Willy Wonka bonhomie and mildly Orwellian obfuscation. Understandably, Google are (is?) keen to keep the details of their revolutionary approach to machine translation under wraps, and share …

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