Category: COVID-19

How can you find the best interpreter

Posted dragomanPosted in conference interpreting, COVID-19, interpreting

If you are referring to talent and aptitude, best interpreters are born. We all need to encourage young talents to enroll interpreting courses in the university and educate them well to secure the future of our industry. It takes years to train a qualified interpreter. Unless best students do not choose translation & interpreting over law, medicine, arts or engineering, we cannot meet the talent gap. If your event is tomorrow you are probably too late, because good interpreters have […]

Turkish subtitling services

Posted dragomanPosted in COVID-19, subtitling, Translation_Tips

Turkish subtitling community was caught off-guard when Netflix launched its video-on-demand services.  Local video market was already vibrant and soaring, yet Netflix and to a certain extent HBO were the last two bags of straw on the camel’s back. Now, Turkish is spoken by 100 million people. 80 million people live in Turkey and broadband internet penetration rate is close to 95%. Turkish TV shows are crazy popular all the way from Serbia and Greece to Qatar and the Emirates. […]

Benefits of secure cloud for corporate localization

Posted dragomanPosted in COVID-19, Language Technologies, Localisation, Translation_Tips

Internet users have been in the cloud for a very long time; Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail, Google, Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, Instagram are all cloud based services. Cloud is easy, instant and collaborative, and if professionals measures are taken it is very secure. We use and resell NUBUTO secure cloud technologies for corporate localization needs. Among others, here are the key reasons for using secure cloud solutions of Nubuto: Two-factor authentication Versioning Finger print authentication IP & computer locks SSL Automated archiving […]

How to localize corporate videos

Posted dragomanPosted in COVID-19, Localisation, subtitling, Transcreation, Translation_Tips

Some researchers suggest that in the next few years video will become the leading format for content marketing. Is your corporate communication strategy ready to adapt? Subtitling is huge business but not every subtitler is corporate grade. There are thousands of fans doing free work or others working for large film studios or OTT providers to localize TV shows. Here are a few suggestions for marcom professionals based on our experience in corporate communication: 1. Work with a transcreation team […]

Remote Simultaneous Interpreting – Not a taboo anymore

Posted Ümit ÖzaydınPosted in conference interpreting, COVID-19, interpreting, Language Technologies, Translation_Tips

Remote simultaneous interpreting is not a sci-fi anymore. New solutions are being used in global corporate events on a daily basis. Although there is still room for improvement, it is there, and it works all fine. This article summarizes my personal experience. I am open to comments and questions from fellow interpreters and also event organizers. I started conference interpreting in 1999 and even back then, there were romours about super tech gadgets which would enable interpreters work remotely. I […]