The adoption of voice assistants is rapidly rising in the West. But what about on the Asian continent? With a rising middle class, a large population, a drive towards touchless…
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Voice Assistants in Asian Languages: Adoption & Challenges
21 hours ago
Desi Tzoneva
Est. reading time: 4 min 03 sec
Cybersecurity Translation in the Asian Context
1 week ago
Desi Tzoneva
Est. reading time: 4 min 50 sec
Although the internet and world wide web are major sources of information and communication, they have also opened up pathways for malicious actors to take advantage of vulnerable or unsuspecting…
The Growing Relationship Between AI and the Japanese Language
2 weeks ago
Desi Tzoneva
Est. reading time: 4 min 31 sec
When OpenAI released the ChatGPT chatbot in November 2022, artificial intelligence (AI) became one of the most talked about topics in the world. The implications for organizations are enormous and…
Why AI Will Make the Language Industry More Human Than Ever – If We Let It
1 month ago
Fabio Schmuki
Est. reading time: 7 min 15 sec
With all the fuss about ChatGPT and AI, you could be forgiven for thinking that translators and copywriters are facing certain extinction. But what do large language models (LLM) really…
Language Services Need to Level Up
2 months ago
Mathijs Sonnemans
Est. reading time: 7 min 10 sec
Language services play a crucial role in connecting businesses with diverse audiences across linguistic and cultural barriers. However, the typical service that language service providers (LSPs) offer falls short of…
Automatic Transcription in Hindi: Challenges and Solutions
3 months ago
Desi Tzoneva
Est. reading time: 5 min 00 sec
Many organizations across the world today are increasingly using automatic transcription to help speed up processes. We’ve all heard of Alexa and Siri for taking our instructions, but what about…
The Role of Vietnamese Language Annotation in AI and ML
4 months ago
Desi Tzoneva
Est. reading time: 5 min 00 sec
Language annotation has been a part of linguistics for many decades now, going back as far as the 1950s and even earlier. And with the continued development of technology such…
Fixing a Low-Resource Language’s Quality Issues — Burmese
4 months ago
Desi Tzoneva
Est. reading time: 3 min 40 sec
As a low-resource language, Burmese is a language that is native to Myanmar and parts of Bangladesh, India, China, and Thailand. There are around 33 million people who speak it…
AI and The Future of Korean Voice-Over Translation
5 months ago
Desi Tzoneva
Est. reading time: 4 min 40 sec
As of December 2020, Netflix was said to have 3.8 million South Korean subscribers. This necessarily means translating and localizing video content for local audiences and as such, Korean voice-over…
Creating a Successful Complaint Management System
5 months ago
Desi Tzoneva
Est. reading time: 6 min 30 sec
At 1-StopAsia, we fully understand the need for an effective complaint management system in place. Just like in any organization, feedback and complaints from customers are a natural occurrence. However,…
Challenges in Life Sciences Translation for Asian Languages
7 months ago
Desi Tzoneva
Est. reading time: 5 min 40 sec
Life sciences in Asia, which refer to all aspects related to medical procedures and human health, have seen impressive growth over the last few decades. In fact, some have even…
DNNs for Kannada-English Machine Translation: A Breakthrough
7 months ago
Desi Tzoneva
Est. reading time: 3 min 55 sec
When people think of India, it’s common to associate the country with linguistic diversity. In fact, apart from Sanskrit, there are 21 modern Indian languages. Among these are Gujarati, Hindi,…
Quality Assurance in Translation for the Korean Language
8 months ago
Desi Tzoneva
Est. reading time: 4 min 40 sec
The translation industry is increasingly making use of quality assurance (QA) to avoid costly mistakes when organizations enter new markets. Translation and localization go hand-in-hand. This means that it’s not…
Agile Localization for Software Development in Chinese
8 months ago
Desi Tzoneva
Est. reading time: 6 min 25 sec
Agile localization has steadily come to the fore in the field of software development in recent times and is likely to see increased prominence going forward, especially with Chinese localization.…
How Video Game Localization Works for Rare Language Pairs
9 months ago
Nikola Stoyanov
Est. reading time: 5 min 15 sec
In the localization industry, English is known as the lingua franca – the common language, the bridge between all rare language pairs. However, games are played all around the world…
How AR and VR Are Changing the Translation Industry
9 months ago
Desi Tzoneva
Est. reading time: 5 min 45 sec
Just like most industries in the world are affected by developments in technology, the translation industry is not far behind with the introduction and continuous developments in AR and VR.…
Crowdsourcing Translation – Should You Do It?
9 months ago
Desi Tzoneva
Est. reading time: 5 min 40 sec
The world of translations is expanding with new machines, software tools, and language pairs, but one aspect that is gaining a lot of attention recently is crowdsourcing translations. The term…
Accurate and Fast Translation – How Realistic Is It?
10 months ago
Desi Tzoneva
Est. reading time: 6 min 40 sec
With the modern demands of our technologically advanced world, many organizations are looking for fast translations in order to remain competitive and relevant in the marketplace. But fast translations do…
The Advancements of Neural Machine Translation in Hindi
10 months ago
Desi Tzoneva
Est. reading time: 4 min 00 sec
Around 572 million people around the world speak Hindi as their mother tongue and this significant number means that translations in Hindi are becoming ever more needed. As India’s official…
How Machine Translation Can Be Used In Clinical Practice
11 months ago
Desi Tzoneva
Est. reading time: 5 min 45 sec
If you’ve ever traveled to another country and you needed to visit a clinical practice there, you would have immediately noticed that the language barrier is rife. It’s crucial for…