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Feb 4, 2019

Review: the Plantronics Voyager Legend monoaural headset for translation

Ergonomics are often a challenge with the microphones used for dictated translation work. I've used quite a few over the years, usually ...

Mar 28, 2017

The "Revision Club"

Colleague Simon Berrill, who works from Catalan, Spanish and French into English, writes a rather thoughtful blog which I have enjoyed very...

Oct 29, 2015

Revised target document workflows in SDL Trados Studio 2015 vs. memoQ

Yesterday I had an unexpected opportunity to see the new SDL implementation of the feature Kilgray introduced to memoQ two years ago, in whi...

Oct 9, 2014

Dragon Naturally Speaking Version 13 - Review!

I've had a number of people ask me recently whether I have upgraded to Dragon Naturally Speaking version 13 for my dictation work in tra...

Jan 2, 2011

The Entrepreneurial Linguist and Online Media

One of my goals for 2011 is to catch up on a backlog of reading that has been accumulating on my shelves and disk drives. One professional r...

Apr 16, 2009

MemoQ 3.5: the march of progress continues!

Since I'm heading off to Budapest next week for the MemoQ Fest 2009 , I was very pleased to see Jost Zetzsche's review of the lates...

Nov 28, 2008

MultiLingual

Since beginning this narrative I've found so many wonderful and useful resources in the course of my research. One find for today is Mul...

The Great Administration Platform Migration Odyssey

Since 2004 I have used the LTC Organiser from The Language Technology Centre Ltd. to handle my translation project organization, invoicing, ...

Nov 27, 2008

Jost Zetzsche's Tool Kit newsletter

What can you get for USD 15? Maybe a decent meal at an inexpensive restaurant. A paperback book probably - hardbacks cost more. If you need ...

Practical use of corpora in acquiring or enhancing a translation specialty

For a long time now, I've had an interest in the use of text collections in particular subject domains as a means of developing speciali...

Nov 26, 2008

German-English dictionaries for welding and soldering

I'm often asked to recommend German-English dictionaries for various subjects, since my partner and I are fanatical collectors of refere...

Nov 24, 2008

How To Write For Translation: The Essential Technical Writer's Guide

I discovered this 36-page PDF gem while visiting the relaunched web site of an Australian partner of mine, Academy Translations . It's a...

Nov 20, 2008

eBook: The Translator's Toolbox by Jost Zetzsche

Reviewed: Version 7.0 (November 2008) Price USD 50 Format: PDF, CHM Info link: http://www.internationalwriters.com/toolbox/ The 361 pages of...

Nov 18, 2008

German-English dictionary for environmental risk assessment and contaminated site investigation

While reading a discussion of the recent ATA conference, I saw a mention of a "new" environmental dictionary, Wörterbuch der Umwel...

Nov 16, 2008

Internet Freelancing: Practical Guide for Translators

Oleg Rudavin's book has been advertised on ProZ for some time now. It's available in English and Russian. However, with the hefty ...

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