Finding the ideal language service provider – 10. How do they select their...
You want to work with an agency that has a pool of well educated, highly accurate, committed professionals with a passion for communicating with force and precision in their area of expertise – ask...
View ArticleFinding the ideal language service provider – 11. Do they have professional...
When efficient processes are implemented, they have a direct impact on the quality of the final result. Efficient project managers coordinate all resources to meet customer expectations and ensure...
View ArticleFinding the ideal language service provider – 13. Do they use translation...
In the 21st century, technology plays a vital role in creating synergies and enhancing speed and cost-effectiveness in language projects. Translation memories are essentially databases which take...
View ArticleFinding the ideal language service provider – 15. Is someone keeping an eye...
Ask your potential providers what systems they have in place to manage complex translation projects, assign various tasks to different people, and track the progress of each of these tasks. Do they...
View ArticleFinding the ideal language service provider – 17. How much do they charge?...
How Much Do They Charge? Price is of course an important consideration too. High prices are not an automatic sign of good quality and neither are lower prices always a sign of bad quality. But...
View ArticleAdded value in translation services
It is often with a certain degree in incredulity and skepticism that I get asked what the added value in translation is. “A translation is a translation, right? As long as it´s correct (see my concept...
View ArticleAdded value in translation services part 2
These are examples of areas where you should be asking for added value in translation, and examples of how language suppliers can help in each one. Quality: a word I like writing in inverted commas –...
View ArticleDoes size matter when choosing a language service provider? (1 of 2)
Although large companies will always mention size as their main advantage, does it really matter in translation? If size is such an advantage, why is the translation market so fragmented, with...
View ArticleChoosing a translator
How to choose a translator: You are choosing a language service provider to partner with. You want to work with an agency that has a pool of well educated, highly accurate, committed professionals with...
View ArticleGuesswork in translation
Translators are usually quite good at guessing what words and expressions mean, and at QuickSilver we sometimes have to work hard to prevent them using this “skill”. Why does this happen? Qualified...
View ArticleFinding the ideal language service provider – 5. What are my formatting /...
Formatting and Desktop Publishing Needs It’s easy to think that translation is just about words. But when you render a document with text, images, graphs and charts into another language, you step...
View ArticleQuickSilver’s transcription service
The transcription service offered by QuickSilver Translate involves the conversion of a spoken language source into a printed form, for example an audio MP3 file into a Word document. The transcription...
View ArticleWhat is ‘Quality’ in Translation? Part 1
What is ‘quality’ in translation? As with any complex technical process, different people often have very different ideas about what makes for a good translation. Keep in mind that there is often no...
View ArticleWhat is ‘Quality’ in Translation? Part 2
What is ‘Quality’ in Translation? Part 2 Just as each word, sentence and paragraph in a piece of marketing collateral must be weighed up carefully, both to judge its individual impact and its relation...
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How to Translate an Illustrator File
How to Translate an Illustrator File Translators handle lots of projects. Most times, these projects come in editable file formats – think, doc, PDF and the likes. However, there are those odd jobs...
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Go multilingual with WordPress WPML
Localisation and multilingual websites It is important to create a multilingual website if you want your business to reach a wider audience. Creating a multilingual website from scratch is difficult,...
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How can I reduce translation costs?
How can I reduce translation costs? The question of how to reduce translation costs is relevant all businesses, not just to multinationals. Especially since Machine Translation appears to offer a...
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When is a less-than-perfect translation acceptable?
In the world of corporate translation, we don’t always need a perfect translation. It’s as simple as that. How do we define “quality” in translation? It is generally understood as the combination of...
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Discover Translation
Discover Translation was born from the European Day of Languages. You may have missed it, but September 26 was the European Day of Languages. The Day was launched by the Council of Europe in 2001, and...
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Discover Translation: 5 Myths!
Translation Myths and Misconceptions Translation is one of the professions that people tend to overlook and take for granted. Those of us who don’t hire translators directly, often don’t even consider...
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