Welcome to our blog! Here you will find news from the world of translation and interpreting, collected and edited by Halo Translations with commentary.
Interpreter’s Quality
Last month Kobe had his final postgame press conference as a Laker. Tencent Video streamed the event live and simultaneous interpreting was provided to help the Chinese viewers and fans. But it was a kind gesture gone disastrous. (The video seems to have disappeared from Tencent Video’s database so I apologise for not being able…
A Printer That Does Translation For You?
Here’s an interesting news for you: Xerox is working with optical character recognition experts and offering customers its Xerox Easy Translation Service. If you have a Xerox multifunction printer with the Easy Translation Service app installed, you can scan a document and have it translated into dozens of languages including English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Russian, Chinese,…
Will Machine Translation Replace Human Translation?
With rapid and on-going advancement in translation technology, one may wonder if it could be possible that one day the language barrier would tumble and crumble. On this topic, Alec Ross predicted, “the language barrier is about to fall“. How very decisive! But David Arbesú has a different opinion based on the following three reasons:…
Translation Or Reinterpretation?
Recently a translation work of the famous Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore’s Stray Birds by Feng Tang, a Chinese writer, was pulled by his publisher after causing controversy for its “racy content”. How “racy”? Well let’s see – Tagore: The world puts of its mask of vastness to its lover. It becomes as small as one…
Translation Barriers Are Hurting Insurance Market
According to Andrés Cárdenas, assistant vice president, Marsh, who spoke at Clyde & Co’s Colombian insurance market seminar in London, issues with translation and cultural barriers were putting re/insurers at risk and costing money. It seemed to Cárdenas that one of the most prominent issues was the translation of legal documents, due to different definitions…
Google Translate App – Great Helper For Overseas Tourists?
You don’t need to type on your phone, wait for the translation to appear on the screen and then show it to the local shop owner so he knows what you’re looking for? Google Translate app is hoping to break down the language barrier once and for all, with the addition of a voice-translation mode.…