Tag Archives: technology

Translating for the textile industry

Posted 314 days ago by Stephen Whiteley

QuickSilver partners with a number of leading textile and clothing companies, including Inditex, Bershka and Blanco. One of the keys to these companies’ success is their ability to respond rapidly and effectively to the market – the Inditex group, for …

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Accuracy in technical translations

Posted 323 days ago by Stephen Whiteley

In a certain sense, one of the easiest types of document to translate are those which contain very little text, all of which is functional and explanatory – a technical manual for example. In this case, the key thing is …

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Translating for the fire protection industry

Posted 482 days ago by Stephen Whiteley

The fire protection and security industry is now Quicksilver’s strongest area of specialisation. This is largely due to our President’s experience of more than 30 years in international management positions in this industry. As Tyco International’s former Global Director of …

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The difference between TM and MT

Posted 549 days ago by Stephen Whiteley

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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Best practice: quality checking

Posted 563 days ago by Stephen Whiteley

Good Language Service Providers (LSPs) generally have two or more stages of quality control. The first will be based on comparing the source and the target document side by side in the Translation Memory (TM). This enables the project manager …

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