Although every technical editor knows the importance of terminology when it comes to consistent, high-quality translations, often there isn’t the budget or the resources to take terminology projects seriously. But managing your terminology doesn’t have to be a mammoth undertaking. What you need more than anything else is a structured approach that...

As artificial intelligence makes more and more of an impact in the translation industry, machine translation is becoming increasingly important. But even though many translations are now produced using this workflow, people still have lots of questions about it. MEINRAD answers 20 of the most frequently asked questions about machine translation...

Today’s translations are produced using CAT tools. There are lots of them, so MEINRAD explains why we have sworn by memoQ for over ten years, and how it can benefit you.

Have you ever heard a translation agency talk about “badly formatted files” and wondered what that means? MEINRAD explains which elements in text design can cause problems in translation and increase what you pay.

The technical demands of the translation process might not be immediately apparent, but they can quickly become major challenges. That’s where Localization Engineers come in: with their technical expertise, they’re the first port of call if there are technical issues or problems, and they make the whole translation process easier. At MEINRAD, Ben...

If there’s one bit of technology that today’s professional language service providers can’t do without, it’s translation memory systems. They play a key role in enabling fast, consistent and cost-effective translations.

ISO certifications are already a strong indicator that a business has high quality standards. But if a translation agency is certified to a standard as comprehensive as ISO 13485 for medical devices, that shows they’ve gone even further: they’re specialists! Andrea Gutwein explains the everyday reality of quality management at an ISO 13485...

WordPress is one of the most popular systems for running websites. The software itself isn’t designed for multilingual websites, but there are various plug-ins, such as WPML, which allow websites to be translated into lots of different languages. MEINRAD explains how simple and straightforward it can be to get a WordPress site translated by a...

Although the machine translation tool DeepL has given users the opportunity to create their own glossary for some time, this was not very useful for the everyday work done by translation agencies. Glossaries are now available for use with the DeepL Pro plug-in in memoQ. Terminology and machine translation manager Bianca Stadler gives her...