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September 2022 found me sailing in Greece and invited to write a comment column for the ITI Bulletin. A comment piece is slightly different from an ordinary article, and the headspace that sailing gives me enabled me to set out an idea that’s been germinating in...

Good company

A conventional career path for translators is to start in-house, then to go freelance once you have some experience under your belt. But what about doing it the other way round? In January 2022, I sat down with Karen Tkaczyk FITI to compare notes about our respective...

Global local

Our third article on language technology at Avaloq looks at how a dedicated localisation platform has not only made our work to review and translate user interfaces much easier, but also strengthened Language Services’ collaboration with developers and designers...

For she’s a jolly good fellow

In December 2020 I was proud to be elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting. I wrote a piece about the thought processes behind it for the May-June 2021 issue of the ITI Bulletin to encourage others to consider taking a step that might be...

Time for Translation

The translation profession has traditionally charged by word, line or page – but should it? I put forward a slightly radical suggestion in the May-June 2021 issue of the ITI Bulletin.  ...

Power to the DeepL

Our second language technology project in Avaloq Language Services was to implement DeepL Pro machine translation in the company. There’s no doubt that technology is changing the world of professional translation, but the human factor is still indispensable –...