The Universal Declaration of Human Rights has been translated into 370 languages Here’s the full list. But if you’re less into reading and more into listening, the folks at SoundCloud have recruited volunteers to record the declaration. Here’s Hungarian: [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/30494626″…
The Khan Academy is out to revolutionize education by providing a free online education through lots and lots of well-produced videos. A core component of this revolution is the subtitling these 2,700 videos (and counting) into many languages. To get…
Twitter went live with its newly updated translation center today. This is the second iteration of the platform; it first launched in October 2009, but was closed less than a year after for an overhaul. I gave it a quick…
Facebook has demonstrated that you can crowdsource translations with high quality and rapid turnaround, leading many other companies to ask how they too can leverage the crowd to translate their content. Enter Adobe and Lingotek. Adobe has recently begun leveraging…
Two weeks ago, I introduced Ethan Shen and his project to analyze the three major free machine translation (MT) engines — Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! Babelfish — by relying on translator reviews. Ethan has provided me with a mid-point summary…
I’m working on the Web Globalization Report Card, and this, plus my fascination with Facebook, inspired me to check out my Forgetting English page in several different languages. Here it is in Spanish… And Chinese… And, my favorite, “pirate English”……
For translation crowdsourcing to work, first you need crowds. And TED, which has been using the crowd to provide translation of its videos, is looking for a few more participants. Here’s a recent blog posting: Wanted: Translators The goal of…
Was there any doubt that Twitter would not try to crowdsource its translations? After Facebook proved that it could use volunteers to go from 1 to 100 languages in two years, it was just a matter of time before Twitter…
Earlier this year, TED began recruiting volunteers to translate its recorded presentations, known as TED Talks. It looks like the venture is off to a strong start. According to TED, more than 1,500 volunteer translators have provided more than 1,000…
It was nice to wake up this morning and see this article in the New York Times about the emergence of machine translation and volunteer translation (aka crowdsourcing). These are two very important developments that every companies needs to be…
It was just over a year ago that Facebook started localizing itself for the world. As I noted then, the company utilized crowdsourcing to spur its translation efforts. And though volunteers aren’t the only people translating content, a year later,…
Techcrunch reports from Facebook’s developer conference today in which company announced that it would open its “crowdsourcing” translation platform to its legion of application developers. Here’s the press release excerpt: As a result of the worldwide success of Facebook’s translation…
I read at Design Across Cultures that Facebook is planning to use “crowdsourcing” to allow its users to create translated content. Crowdsourcing is a hot new buzzword that is best illustrated by Wikipedia — you take a lot of motivated…