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Machine translation is no substitute for humans when it comes to law enforcement
When officers arrived at the scene of a violent confrontation and questioned a bystander, they relied on a free machine translation tool to communicate...
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NYC Marathon winner brings sports interpreting into the spotlight
Evans Chebet, a long-distance runner who hails from Kenya, received a lot of attention not just for his impressive finish time at the NYC...
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Canadian interpreter’s workplace injury highlights on-the-job health risks
The government of Canada is currently investigating the conditions that led to a particularly bad case of acoustic shock in an interpreter working on...
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Zoom adds sign language interpretation feature
Zoom announced earlier this month that it’s added a new feature to make its video communication platform more accessible to deaf and hard-of-hearing users:...
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UNM launches research center to support acquisition of Diné and other Indigenous languages
To promote language revitalization efforts among Native American communities and better understand the role children can play in such projects, the University of New...
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Humans still beat machines when it comes to literary translation
You wouldn’t use Google Translate to churn out an English-language (or any language, for that matter) version of a novel like Gabriel García Márquez’s ...