Articles tagged with: translator
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The BBC appears to be thinking seriously about using translation to connect its global audience online.
On Thursday the World Service hosted a cross-language discussion between English, Arabic, Chinese, Portuguese, Persian, Indonesian and Spanish speakers with Google’s Machine Translation service providing translations.
What ensued was a bizarre disjointed discussion about nothing much in particular, resembling a collection of spam attacks.
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Yesterday I presented Meedan’s approach to collaborative translation to students at the Centre for Translation Studies at Leeds University, UK.
There was a great turn out, particularly from Arabic students, and I was absolutely amazed be the quality of the feedback.
We discussed Meedan’s approach and how to get started using the tools, and I tried to demonstrate how getting involved would increase translators’ opportunities by boosting their profile, increasing their technology awareness and honing their translation skills with a live audience.
