Tag Archives: Translation software

Updating translations with translation memory

Posted 76 days ago by Stephen Whiteley

QuickSilver makes use of state-of-the-art translation software in order to streamline the translation process and ensure consistency across all the translations we undertake for you. Every time we translate a document for a particular customer, the Translation Memory (TM) we …

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Cost saving: translating powerpoint

Posted 81 days ago by Stephen Whiteley

Customers often assume that when we translate a PowerPoint Presentation (PPT), slide by slide, directly in the source file. This is indeed how it would have been done ten years ago, before the advent of Computer Assisted Translation software and …

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Passing data 2.0

Posted 84 days ago by Stephen Whiteley

There is a curious disconnect in the English language which has only opened itself up in recent decades. It is connected to the new electronic media, above all social networks, and it has to do with the transferal of certain …

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What is Computer Aided Translation?

Posted 270 days ago by Stephen Whiteley

First and foremost: it is NOT, repeat NOT, automatic translation. Computer Aided Translation (CAT) in fact has very little to do with Google Translate and its ilk. A ‘computer-aided translation’ is one which has been undertaken by a human translator …

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Integrating design and translation: we *heart* InDesign

Posted 279 days ago by Stephen Whiteley

One of the techniques used by specialists in linguistic desktop publishing (DTP) is to pay close attention to the early stages of design work. During pre-processing, for instance, it is important that the text ‘flows’, that the format accepts text …

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