China has quickly surpassed the US as the world’s largest gaming market, making the need for effective localization (otherwise referred to as I18n) ever more essential. Indeed, localization, which is…
Category: Languages of Asia
Top Tips For Video Game Localization in Chinese
3 days ago
Desi Tzoneva
Est. reading time: 6 min 30 sec
Japanese to English Transliteration – How It’s Done
1 week ago
Desi Tzoneva
Est. reading time: 5 min 20 sec
In the translation process, there are some words that simply don’t have an equivalent from the source language to the target language and this is where transliteration comes in. Transliteration…
Top 3 Reasons for Vietnamese Website Localization
2 weeks ago
Desi Tzoneva
Est. reading time: 4 min 20 sec
Foreign companies seeking to penetrate the Vietnamese market should seriously consider performing Vietnamese website localization. Website localization refers to the process of not only translating a website from English or…
Subtitling vs. Closed Captioning, what suits Korean Media?
3 weeks ago
Nikola Stoyanov
Est. reading time: 4 min 30 sec
Subtitling or closed captioning – most video content nowadays has either one of these, but what is the difference and which one is better? Originally, closed captions (CC) were used…
Dubbing & Voice-over Recording in Japan
1 month ago
Desi Tzoneva
Est. reading time: 6 min 10 sec
Have you heard of a seiyuu? It wouldn’t be an overstatement to say that most of us have watched a creative video piece or listened to the radio where a…
Top 3 Reasons for Choosing Human Translation for Korean
1 month ago
Desi Tzoneva
Est. reading time: 4 min 50 sec
The Korean language is complex and the cultural aspect that ties in with it makes machine translation less desirable than human translation. While there’s certainly room and space for machine…
How Linguistic Transcription is Performed in Vietnamese
2 months ago
Nikola Stoyanov
Est. reading time: 4 min 40 sec
Linguistic transcription is the act of converting audio or video speech into text. However, it is a lot more than just listening and typing it down. The recording needs to…
The Best Online Chinese Translators
2 months ago
Nikola Stoyanov
Est. reading time: 4 min 00 sec
The first question you might ask yourself is why not just use Google, isn’t that one of the best online translators? While Google Translate is very good and improving constantly…
Why it is difficult to translate English to Korean?
2 months ago
Desi Tzoneva
Est. reading time: 5 min 15 sec
While every language has its own set of peculiarities and rules, there’s something special to be said about translating English to Korean. Apart from the fact that the languages are…
Translating Politeness from English to Hindi
2 months ago
Desi Tzoneva
Est. reading time: 5 min 00 sec
Despite the multitude of linguistic differences between all the languages of the world, they all have one thing in common and that is that they contain levels of politeness, making…
Loading Chinese Fonts on Your Multilingual Website
2 months ago
Enitsa Koeva
Est. reading time: 4 min 00 sec
Loading Chinese fonts can be an overwhelming task, however, using your client’s native language is detrimental to being successful in foreign markets. We’ve discussed the topic already and you can…
Localization Quirks From English to Japanese
3 months ago
Desi Tzoneva
Est. reading time: 5 min 40 sec
Global borders continue to shrink and this is becoming ever more evident when it comes to English to Japanese translations. Many Western companies are heading to Japan to offer their…
Problems With Text-to-Speech Conversion for Asian Languages
3 months ago
Nikola Stoyanov
Est. reading time: 4 min 50 sec
Text-to-speech conversion systems are used to convert text into speech that comes as close as possible to the speech of a native speaker of the language reading that text. Prime…
Translate English to Chinese Accurately – Advancements of MT
4 months ago
Nikola Stoyanov
Est. reading time: 5 min 15 sec
Using machine translation to translate English to Chinese accurately sounds amazing, right? If this technology is freely applied, it will impact a wide array of industries including e-commerce, automotive, gaming,…
Difficulties With Developing NLP for Vietnamese
4 months ago
Desi Tzoneva
Est. reading time: 5 min 45 sec
The Vietnamese language is spoken by around 75 million people across the world and it is the official language of Vietnam. The language itself has undergone several centuries of development…
Can you translate acronyms from Asian languages?
5 months ago
Desi Tzoneva
Est. reading time: 7 min 35 sec
An acronym is briefly defined as a shortened version of the various words that make up a meaningful phrase, with every first word of the phrase being abbreviated and then…
The Golden Week in Japan
5 months ago
Desi Tzoneva
Est. reading time: 4 min 55 sec
From the 29th of April to the 5th of May each year, Japan and its citizens celebrate “Golden Week”. This period of festivities includes four very special holidays, which we…
The Issues With Machine Dubbing For Asian Languages
5 months ago
Desi Tzoneva
Est. reading time: 4 min 45 sec
Although dubbing in film and television has been around since the 1950s, machine dubbing is a much more recent phenomenon. There’s been a massive proliferation of video content all around…
Korean Webtoons and Their Growing Popularity
6 months ago
Desi Tzoneva
Est. reading time: 4 min 40 sec
Western readers who grew up with comic books will surely remember the DC and Marvel superheroes that they grew up with, which have subsequently been turned into movies for all…
Introduction of Context-Awareness in NMT for Korean
6 months ago
Nikola Stoyanov
Est. reading time: 4 min 25 sec
Neural Machine Translation is the latest technology in the world of automated translation, but it still has its limitations, especially when it comes down to more complex languages. We will…