From the monthly archives:

March 2010

Real feedback scores Global Lingo 8.91/10

March 30, 2010

Knowing what our clients think of our services is very important to us. Not just so that we can fulfil our commitment to ISO 9001, but so that we can genuinely monitor and improve the quality of our services, ensuring that we stay on top of our game and always go beyond satisfying our clients. To keep [...]

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Twitter to add machine translation?

March 25, 2010

Over on The Next Web they report that Twitter are adding the option to machine translate tweets. This is in theory a great idea as only 50% of tweets are in English and that figure is bound to become lower as the use of the site increases. Problem is that machine translation struggles with the [...]

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Brand New Global Lingo Website

March 24, 2010

Global Lingo is proud to announce the launch of its new improved website. The London based Language Services Company has re-developed the site to better reflect the services which it has been offering since 2006. As well as the Transcription, Summary, Translation and Interpreting services it has been delivering for many years, the company now [...]

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Audio-Visual services a new addition

March 23, 2010

Since Global Lingo opened its doors, we’ve concentrated hard on bringing our clients the best possible Transcription, Summaries, Translation and Interpreting services. And we’re now proud to say that we can offer Audio-visual services too. Audio-Visual services dovetail nicely with our existing languages service as a lot of our interpreting and transcription projects take place [...]

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SuperPower Nation Day – success or failure?

March 19, 2010

Yesterday the BBC tried a massive experiment – SuperPower Nation Day - using Google’s machine translation to bring multiple speakers together in one place. The idea was great, but, as the Global Lingo team found when we tried to join in, the system wasn’t quite up to the job in hand. Though Marian did manage to [...]

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Can Machine Translation cope?

March 18, 2010

Today (18th March 2010) the BBC World Service are holding an experiment at a live event in which people from all over the world, speaking their native language, will come together for one large ‘virtual conference’. The agenda is open so the discussion can be on any subject. But how will they all communicate? Well [...]

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Transcribing for Davos 2010

March 16, 2010
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We’re proud to announce that we’ve been appointed to provide transcription services for the prestigious World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos which starts on 27th January. The event brings together some of the most influential figures from commerce and government to discuss how the world can best meet the economic and social challenges of [...]

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International Women’s Day – And how language plays a huge part

March 8, 2010

Today is International Women’s Day. The first International Women’s Day was in 1911; the idea was proposed in 1910 by Clara Zetkin, leader of the ‘Women’s Office’ for Germany’s Social Democratic Party. The day has become an occasion for women to celebrate achievements and progress in the fight for women’s liberation. It is also an [...]

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