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Does Word Lens spell the end for professional translation?

December 17, 2010

Today is a momentous day. The long promised reality of realtime translation has come one step closer with the launch of Word Lens by QuestVisual. This amazing iPhone app translates from English to Spanish and Spanish to English right before your eyes! Simply start the iPhone app and point the camera at the Spanish sign, [...]

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Still working through the snow

December 2, 2010
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Despite the fact that the UK is white over and the trains, planes and roads are gridlocked. Global Lingo is still open for business. All our systems are fully internet based, so even though we can’t be in the office today we’re still available to help you with your translation, transcription and interpreting projects. So [...]

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More expansion in the Leeds office

October 21, 2010

Global lingo moved it’s its sales centre from London to Leeds back in July and relocated Marian Arnold from that office to the new premises in the Leeds Innovation Centre. Since then the company has hired Paul Green as senior account manager and recently partnered with the Leeds Met Job Shop to recruit Hanna Ojanpera [...]

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Now you can pay for translations online

October 1, 2010
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We’ve just upgraded our online quote system for translation, interpreting, transcription. It was due an overhaul and we think we’ve done a pretty good job. Pay for your translation online via PayPal or Credit Card While we were improving the system we thought it would be a great idea to enable the system to take [...]

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Two new sales staff in the Leeds office

September 14, 2010

We’re really pleased to welcome Chris Parkes and Hanna Ojanperä to the Leeds office. They were recruited with the help of the Leeds Met Job Shop and join our expanding Sales Team based in Leeds. Richard Michie, Marketing Director said “Hanna and Chris were the outstanding candidates from our extensive interview process and we’re all [...]

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European Language Day – Save 10% on translation and interpreting

August 24, 2010
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To celebrate European Language Day on September 26th we’re offering a 10% discount on all European language translation and interpreting projects. This special discount is available throughout September, on all new projects. “European Language Day is a great initiative and everyone at Global Lingo is getting behind the idea. As a translation and interpreting company [...]

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Chinese jettison rare surname unrecognised by computer

August 18, 2010

According to the BBC website, two hundred members of a Chinese family are reportedly changing their surname because the character used to write it is so rare computers do not recognise it. Computers convert most Chinese characters for printing, but some are so rare that they are never assigned a code and one of those [...]

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Our customer service level rises to 9.2

July 16, 2010

As part of our ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management accreditation we constantly monitor our customer service levels by asking all our clients to complete a very short questionnaire at the end of every project we deliver. On each one we ask them to score out of 10 (10 being excellent, 0 poor) on these questions: How [...]

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Expanding our offices in Leeds

July 9, 2010
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Things are going really well for us, so much so that we’ve expanded our operations in Leeds and opened a new office in the Leeds Innovation Centre, near the University. Initially this office will be the hub of our marketing and sales operations, with an initial staff of five and further expansion expected within the [...]

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New translation service for iPhone and iPad

June 23, 2010
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The iPhone and iPad are revolutionising mobile computing with more and more apps being made available everyday. I got my first (if short) play with an iPad the other day and I must say it is a beautiful piece of technology, though I am a huge Apple fan. The interface, just like on the iPhone [...]

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