Dear members,
Last year, 26 hours of interpreter training were added to the basket of goods, services, tools and other resources available with ProZ.com Plus membership.
New courses have been added to this part of the package, representing 130 more hours of training that you can take for free if you have a Plus subscription.
Jared Tabor
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What are the "must have" tools of the modern interpreter?
Earlier this year, over a thousand interpreters participated in surveys designed to look at trends, challenges, and opportunities in the current landscape of interpreting. If you are interested in some of the results, along with advice and strategies from experts in the field, be sure you are tuning in to the free online event ProZ.com is hosting for remote interpreters, happening this Tuesday, March 28th.
One question interpreters were asked was:
"What hardware or software would you consider as part of your list of 'must haves' for the modern interpreter?"
A lot of recommendations were made, and so I thought it might be fun to share a compiled list of those recommendations, and maybe also build off it, to create a more or less comprehensive list of tools that anyone can go through to get ideas which might help improve how they work.
Read MoreTranscreation Atelier: free online (Zoom) event organized by Women in Localization UK, March 10th
If you're like me, you might have to occasionally Google "transcreation" when you see the word pop up, just to make sure (again) that you are clear on what is being talked about.
I think I get the idea now. I think.
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Trends in the language services industry: Outlook
Trends in the language services industry: Clients
Trends in the language services industry: Income, planning, investments
Trends in the language services industry: A demographic interlude
Years in the industry
Trends in the language services industry: Turnover and Attention Economy
You win some, you lose some
Trends in the language services industry: The continued rise of the remote interpreter
Trends in the language services industry: The need for experts on tech applied to language services
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Embracing MT and MTPE
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Diversifying within the industry
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Diversifying out of the industry
Trends in the language services industry: Machine translation, part 2
Actual post-editing work (MTPE)...
I'm training automated translation engines and I therefore know firsthand these need to be 'tweaked' to deliver proper suggestions.
I am used to post editing now more than ever, and that has been a significant contribution to the number of words I am able to translate per day.
Trends in the language services industry: Machine translation, part 1
Machine translation and post-editing. Won’t it just go away on its own?
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MT applied by translators,
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MT applied by clients or others who are not the translators, and
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Actual machine translation post-editing (MTPE) work.