Speech Recognition Is in Your Back Pocket (or Wherever You Keep Your Mobile Phone)
Speech recognition (n.): The process of identifying and interpreting or responding to the sounds produced in human speech. 鈥擮xford English Dictionary Speech recognition is…
ATA Advocacy Efforts
From the听President David Rumsey president@atanet.org Twitter handle:听@davidcrumsey There鈥檚 a mantra in real estate that says, 鈥渓ocation, location, location.鈥 Which is to say, no matter…
Board Meeting Highlights
From the Executive Director Walter Bacak, CAE walter@atanet.org The 情侣自拍鈥檚 Board of Directors met April 22鈥23, 2017, in Alexandria, Virginia. The Board…
Projecting the Cost of ATA鈥檚 Annual Conference
The conference pricing tool was designed to provide conservative figures for both revenues and expenses in accordance with good accounting practices. How does ATA…
Navigating Language Access in Legal Proceedings at the Philadelphia Bar Association
As members of ATA鈥檚 Public Relations Committee, those of us assigned as event speakers were asked last year to identify groups or organizations in…
Interview with John Ayto, Lexicographer
I admit it, I love words. Consequently, I have always been fascinated by dictionaries and have a certain reverence for lexicographers鈥攖hose who compile them.…
How to Develop Effective Communication Skills to Get and Keep Clients
Effective communication is both a means to achieve your business goals and the very essence of your business. Have you ever been unsure about…
Key Components of Successful Translator Recruitment
A fundamental tenet of language services is that an organization鈥檚 translation product will only be as good as the translator who provides the target content. That鈥檚 why vendor recruitment must be counted among the most critical of processes for translation firms.
Tablets for Interpreters: The Device You Didn鈥檛 Know You Wanted
You may already be using an Android mobile device or iPad to browse the web, play games, or stream video. But did you know that tablets also make great companions for interpreters? Read on for some great tips to get started.
Remote Interpreting: Feeling Our Way into the Future
While it鈥檚 probably impossible to quantify exactly how much mobile technology has influenced and expanded human communication, it has completely changed how just about everyone on the planet communicates.
Unraveling Translation Service Contracts
If translation is such a specialized professional service, where so much is at stake for the end client, why are so many translators operating without the protection of a solid contract?
What Happens When Translators Go on Autopilot
Personally, I do not believe specialized human translators who actively use their brains will ever be replaced by machines. But if you put your…