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24/10/2016

Having your rights read to you before arrest is not something that many people savour the thought of. But the miscarriages of justices following having those read rights mistranslated is nothing short of an abomination. But that’s something that has happened on countless occasions in the US, where Spanish-speaking people upon arrest have been delivered a mistranslation of what their rights are. [ 257 more words ]

http://www.magnacartatranslation.com/news/aba-votes-unanimously-favour-spanish-language-miranda-warning/

The ABA has voted in favour of the creation of a Spanish-language Miranda warning, in the hope of safeguarding justice against errors of mistranslation.

10/10/2016

Google has recently published a paper entitled Google’s Neural Machine Translation System: Bridging the Gap Between Human and Machine Translation. The claims within the paper are bold, with the team behind the Google neural machine translation (GNMT) technology announcing that “in some cases human and GNMT translations are nearly indistinguishable” and that “our system’s translation quality approaches or surpasses all currently published results.” [ 304 more words ]

http://www.magnacartatranslation.com/news/machine-translation-no-means-solved-admits-google/

Google's new machine translation technology – GNMT – shows a marked improvement on previous offerings, but still falls short of human accuracy.

29/06/2016

Translation technology. It’s improving all the time. But, even the most sophisticated of specimens are always prone to glaring errors. We’ve reported on the Magna Carta Translation News numerous times in recent months of the likes of Google Translate making a pig’s ear of translated wedding vows or, even more embarrassingly, translating the surname of Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to “sad little horse” [ 442 more words. ]

http://www.magnacartatranslation.com/news/3-reasons-your-law-firm-needs-a-human-translator/

Endless reports of translation technology gaffes prove one thing for certain: when it comes to crucial law translations, you need a human translator.

20/06/2016

A free translation service has been launched in Nagoya, Japan, to help ageing Chinese residents in the city gain access to nursing care. Many elderly Chinese residents are having trouble with Japan’s nursing care insurance system due to the language barrier and lack of knowledge of Japanese law. The head of the Tokai Daily Life Centre For Foreigners Wang Rong, 51, hopes that the newly created service will “help create a society where non-Japanese residents are given the same opportunities as Japanese citizens.” [ 261 more words. ]

http://www.magnacartatranslation.com/news/translation-service-launched-in-nagoya-to-aid-aging-chinese-residents/

A free translation service has been launched in Nagoya, Japan, to help ageing Chinese residents in the city gain access to nursing care.

31/05/2016

One of the biggest challenges for machine translation is the richness, complexity and nuance of language itself. One of my favourite books in my younger years was Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, in which a Babelfish is inserted into the protagonist’s ear which translated alien tongues in outer space in real-time. Though I’m not nor have ever been a Trekkie, I am told that a similar device – a ‘Universal Translator’ – was available to the space travellers in… [ 320 more words. ]

http://www.magnacartatranslation.com/news/is-real-time-translation-just-around-the-corner/

A new transaltion device call the Pilot is currently attracting a lot of attention on crowdfunding site Indiegogo. But how reliable and accurate will it be?

27/05/2016

La 23e conférence de l’International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) prend fin aujourd’hui après trois jours de débat. Au menu : des discussions très techniques devant plus de 800 délégués du monde entier sur les enjeux et les nouvelles tendances de l’arbitrage international. Maurice, à travers la tenue de cet événement, entend devenir un centre régional d’arbitrage et créer ainsi des emplois. [ 420 more words. ]

http://www.magnacartatranslation.com/?p=1930

La 23e conférence de l’International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) prend fin aujourd’hui après trois jours de débat. Au menu : des discussions très techniques devant plus de 800 délégués du ...

11/05/2016

Let’s be abundantly clear to begin with. Russia’s President Putin did not call Donald Trump a “genius”. There can be no doubt whatever about that. And yet the presumptive Republican candidate for the American presidency has been more than persistent – in fact, one could even describe his behaviour as insistent – to hold to the contrary. “So far we’re off to a good start,” Trump told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer in… [ 451 more words. ]

http://www.magnacartatranslation.com/?p=1922

Donald Trump insists that Putin described him as a "genius". He didn't. It's a mistranslation of "colourful" - but this doesn't stop Trump repeating it.

11/04/2016

Man Booker Prize At Last Recognises Translators

http://www.magnacartatranslation.com/?p=1908

Translators are too often invisible. But this year the Man Booker International Prize money will be split evenly between author and translator.

05/04/2016

A new version of a Microsoft Translator API is to be released to add real-time speech translation capabilities to the existing text translation API. This means that businesses will have the ability to add speech translation capabilities to their own services, with the effect of bringing a better experience to their international customers. It’s certainly a landmark development for translation technology, being the first end-to-end speech translation solution to be optimised for real life and real-time conversations – currently available in eight languages and spoken in 18. [ 321 more words. ]

http://www.magnacartatranslation.com/?p=1907

Microsoft To Launch New Real-Time Speech Translator API - Magna Carta Translation

15/03/2016

The UK’s Sky News reported last week that it had received the “biggest Islamic State intelligence haul” ever, referring to its claimed receipt of a jihadist list with over “22,000 IS personnel files” from an embittered terrorist who had defected from the Islamic State ranks. The information was contained “on a memory stick stolen from the head of Islamic State’s internal security police.” It sounded like a journalist’s goldmine – “Tens of thousands of documents, containing names, addresses, telephone numbers and family contacts of Islamic State jihadis, have been obtained by Sky News,” the report ran. [ 344 more words. ]

http://www.magnacartatranslation.com/?p=1904

Sky News last week ran a report over-hyping the exclusivity of a jihadist list it came into possession of, and misinterpreted key facts in the text.

29/02/2016

This month, the addition of 13 new languages to Google Translate now brings the total up to 103. The update essentially means that the service is now accessible to a further 120 million people around the world. The new languages that have been added are: Amharic Corsican Frisian Kyrgyz Hawaiian Kurdish (Kurmanji) Luxembourgish Samoan Scots Gaelic Shona Sindhi Pashto Xhosa… [ 284 more words. ]

http://www.magnacartatranslation.com/?p=1900

Google Translate now offers 103 languages – but the vulnerability of machine-learning error still remains.

16/02/2016

The UK’s Metropolitan Police Force's interpreter bill reached nearly £7 million between April 2014 and 2015 – some of which went on translators for suspects who were claiming to speak an extinct language from the now non-existent Dahomey kingdom in West Africa. 11 suspects were arrested by Scotland Yard who claimed to be from Dahomey, a country which in fact ceased to exist in 1975. [ 289 more words. ]

http://www.magnacartatranslation.com/?p=1898

The UK Met picks up interpreter bill for suspects claiming to speak an extinct language from the now non-existent Dahomey kingdom.

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