Translation is about more than just conveying a text from one language to another. At a translation agency, teams of experts work together not just to produce high-quality translations, but also to make clients’ everyday work easier. Preparing texts before and after the translation has a key role to play in a successful translation process, so if...

Things are moving fast in the world of machine translation – the results produced by MT tools are getter better and better, and the range of languages offered is growing all the time. But be careful: just because a text can be machine translated from one particular language to another, that doesn’t necessarily mean the results will be good....

Until now, the terminology management system Kalcium Quickterm and the CAT tool memoQ only worked separately – so if you wanted to give a translation agency access to your terminology, the only way to do it was by manually exporting and importing it. But now the two systems can talk to each other. MEINRAD’s Terminology Manager Bianca Stadler...

Medical manufacturers and the pharmaceutical industry in general need lots of translations, not least because of the strict regulatory requirements they have to meet. Accurate translations are crucial in order to ensure safety for patients and users – and that’s where the CAT tool memoQhas a large part to play in delivering high-quality texts.

They say good planning is half the battle. And that goes for translation just as it does elsewhere! If you can plan your translation projects in advance and give the agency plenty of time to deliver them, you can benefit from advance planning discounts and save money with every project.

Lots of businesses want to exploit machine translation to reduce the cost of their projects and the time taken to deliver them. But before making the switch, there are a few questions to think about, and processes and workflows to prepare, in order to ensure that the quality of your translations doesn’t suffer and you actually save money from it.

Buying translation services from multiple providers can lead to chaos and won’t give you the best value for money. MEINRAD explains why, and outlines the drawbacks and risks of a decentralized approach.

In the medical industry, you can’t just produce a label with some warnings and information and then stick it on a medical product. As anyone who’s familiar with labelling knows, there are strict regulatory requirements that have to be met across the board. For patients and users of medical products, safety is the number one priority – but how can...

Translation agencies are ten a penny – just google “translation agency” and you’ll quickly see how hard it can be to choose between them. So how do you find the perfect partner, and how can you scrutinize how they work to ensure you make the right decision?