Category: Languages of Asia

Loading Chinese Fonts on Your Multilingual Website

2 years 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

2 years 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

2 years 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

2 years 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

2 years 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?

2 years 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

2 years 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

2 years 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

2 years 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

2 years 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…