CASE STUDY: Leading appliance manufacturing company challenged Welocalize to deliver the translation of 250,000 words from various financial reports and transfer pricing documentation from Italian into English and Chinese, within a 10-day turnaround. Globalization has created opportunities for companies to expand into new markets, bringing with it an ever-changing environment to compete in. However, with this…
Year: 2022
What unifies Brazil, Portugal, Mozambique, and Macau? These countries and territories are united by the language their residents speak: Portuguese. It’s among the 10 most spoken languages in the world. Portuguese is spoken by over 220 million people spread over 10 countries and states in the world. Only 5% of native Portuguese speakers reside in…
Metaverse is the next big thing in business and technology. According to Bloomberg, the global metaverse market is projected to reach US$800 billion by 2024. What started as immersive, persistent 3D games has expanded to live entertainment, such as virtual concerts and sporting events. Now, prices for virtual land are skyrocketing as companies and individuals…
Leveraging user-generated content (UGC) in your marketing campaigns can increase your audience engagement, and in turn, your sales. However, the use of UGC is coupled with the risk of legal ramifications such as privacy breaches, trademark violations and copyright infringement. Therefore, it is crucial to learn UGC laws and regulations to remain compliant. Continue reading…
Localizing software and online applications can be challenging, particularly if not considered at the architecture planning and product development stage. Taking software global isn’t simply a case of translating user interfaces (UI), packaging, and product documentation into other languages. It’s critical to deliver quality products and software to users around the world that are accessible…
Our Welocalize family is brought together by a diverse, global team. It’s our people that make us successful. We love celebrating our global teams’ differences, be it cultures, countries, and languages spoken, to name a few. Inspiring each other with the motto “I don’t shine, if you don’t shine”, Women of Welocalize (WOW) is an…
Every localization project takes time. However, there are certain types of content where time is of the essence. A perfect example is financial reports. Global brands that require their financial reports to be translated into multiple languages leave little time to translate and localize. Last-minute approvals and updates are common. Time matters in financial translations…
The metaverse is transforming and facilitating human-to-human interaction, including human-to-machine, virtual interactions. However, models that power the metaverse rely on data and lots of it. Data is necessary for metaverse models to give more accurate responses, engage more empathetically, and become more evolved in natural language understanding (NLU) and in turn, human-level reasoning. …
In the spirit of this year’s Earth Day, we wanted to share how our incredible Welocalize colleagues invest in our planet and how they are making lasting changes (big or small) to protect our planet’s future. Every choice and change we make adds up to make a lasting impact! It’s amazing to see the actions…
You’ve likely heard of the likes of Siri, Cortana, Alexa, Google Home, and more. These voice assistants and other voice-enabled applications are changing the game when it comes to voice search. Millions of people worldwide use them to make online searches, daily. What was once thought of as a novelty, is now very much becoming…
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