Stephen E. Arnold: Google Translation – More Intelligent?

Google Translation: Getting More Intelligent? Translation has never been easier with AI and NLP tools. It is amazing for people who cannot speak foreign languages to communicate with the assistance of translation apps, like Google Translation. While there are many translation apps on the market, Google is by far the best free one. As with …

Stephen E. Arnold: Translations in the Cloud are Not Private — #GoogleGestapo Leverages Everything…

Privacy Is Lost in Translation Online translation tools are a wonder!  Instead of having to rely on limited dictionaries and grammars, online translation tools deliver real-time, nearly accurate translations of documents and other text.  It is usually good to double check the translation because sometimes the tools do make mistakes.  Translation tools, however, can make …

Stephen E. Arnold: Stepes – Human Translation at Your Fingertips

Stepes: Human Translation at Your Fingertips Though today’s machine translation is a convenient way to quickly get the gist of a foreign-language passage, it has its limitations; professionals still turn to human translation services when it counts. A new platform, Stepes Translate, can bridge the gap (at least until algorithms catch up). Its chat-based format …

AVAILABLE: Translation Rights for Open Source Everything Manifesto

Doug Reil, leader of North Atlantic Books, publisher of THE OPEN SOURCE EVERYTHING MANIFESTO: Transparency, Truth, & Trust (Evolver Editions, 2012) has agreed to revert all translation right back to the author. Chinese, French, and Spanish translations are under discussion, all under Creative Commons license, all using volunteers or state-funded translators.  I am seeking volunteers …