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How To Find Your Way Through The File Format Jungle

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It's very easy to get lost in today's file format jungle: Word files, txt, spreadsheets, presentations, pdf, image files… The list seems to be endless. But what then is the right file format to send to your translator? How can you make sure your translator does not waste time with cumbersome file conversions? Or even better : how can you avoid extra conversion costs? Here are a few tips.   TALK IS CHEAP Having a talk with your translator first won't cost you a thing. The best advice we can give is: Don't make any assumptions about file formats and don't start doing cumbersome file conversion or exporting work. You might have the intention to reduce your agency's workload, for example by exporting all your website copy to a spreadsheet file, but actually you are only giving your translator a lot of extra work. A preliminary chat with your translator will also teach you for example that a scanned document is not really a digital text file, but an untranslata

How to create a professional multimedia project

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Multimedia is taking an increasingly bigger piece of the pie of content production. Compared to text-based content, videos and audios often has much more expressive power to convey your company's marketing or technical message. When your company is operating in an international context, multimedia localization is the next hurdle to take. Making your multimedia production available to a global audience can be done in two ways: by adding a voice-over or by subtitling your video content. While there definitely are good reasons to opt for voice-overs, subtitles have a number of advantages: Hiring a voice-over artist requires a certain budget. Subtitling on the other hand is much more cost-effective. A voice-over can be distracting. When a movie is dubbed, it takes away a little of the emotion and meaning of the original speaker. Search engines look for more than text displayed on your web page. In fact, subtitles contribute significantly to your search engine optimi

Quality management in data collection projects : 3 things to consider

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The demand for data collection projects has a hug gross in the past 10 years . The fundamental work of t hese projects typically involve translating large quantities of language data, which is then used to train Natural Language Processing (NLP) or machine learning engines. Transee has adapted our language quality assurance (LQA) strategies to meet this need , because d ata collection projects also need to be managed according to specific requirements. Following is the several tips we’ve collected for data collection quality management that we think are effective.   Translation quality management There are many familiar aspects between most localization experts and translation quality concepts. but the process of running a language quality program can often be unclear to their clients. Using an similar example of manufacturing industry, LQA can be described as a sampling process, whose goal is to prevent defects from reaching customers . A sample of a finished product is

Nice day , happy hour

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We had a party in our office on last Friday, as you know, Transee is a young and energetic team, but we have 20 years in this industry with extensive experience. We hope to innovate and improve with you in 2020 together. Here I'd like to share our representative team with you, all of us were here to serve you the best language solutions ever you have received.

How Professional Translation Service can Boost Your Business Growth

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Global expansion sounds like a dream.  Aspire to become a recognized name across the borders? Want to expand your business into different international markets? Don’t know how to get started? Don’t worry, we can help! It is an era of digitalization and for all the new and old, and small and large scale businesses that want to enjoy global fame, digitalization has opened new avenues. There is cut-throat competition in every industry and in order to stay on top of the mind of potential customers,  it is very important to communicate with your target markets in their native language and that’s where the best translation services come into play. Boost Your Business Growth with Professional Translation services: It is a very cumbersome task to prepare the content in the preferred language of global marketplaces. To make sure your proposed message is delivered flawlessly and your name becomes renowned in the global business community, you need to break the language barriers. For this, you ne