Translator City Radio Robert Rogge, Zingword

About the episode

Tom Comerford from Supratext joins us to discuss XLIFF 2.0. For translators who don't know, XLIFF 2.0 has been around since 2014 and would allow translators to work in their tool of choice, as opposed to getting "locked-in" to any particular tool. We discuss the details of XLIFF 2.0 for translators along with some of the reasons why it hasn't been implemented across the industry.


Links


To join the technical committee as a translator
To read the standard


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Episode Notes

Intro music

Intro music for this episode is "Beacon" by Volkor, who does not come in peace. Find them on Bandcamp.


About Natalie Toledo

Natalie Toledo is the director of Localize Chile, which you can find at http://localizechile.cl. Her focus is on copywriting, website translation, and SEO, which is a super interesting field because it requires a mixture of knowledge, including technical, marketing, SEO, writing, and translation.


Tools we mention


Proranktracker
SEO Quake
HEAP Analytics
All the regular Google tools.

In Episode 5 of Translator City Radio, featuring John Moran from Silicon Valley CAT tool providers LILT, we cover Google's announcement of their neural machine translation technology and their exaggerated claims that it is nearly human quality. We think there will still be plenty of translation jobs around, and as always, sign-up for our launch notification since our goal is to help translators get great jobs.

Gil is leaving translation for Swiss pastures, and we're talking about his journey to becoming a translator, giving it up, and hoping he'll come back again.

Translator City Radio covers four topics this week. We think we're getting better at podcasting, too. Music is by The Apples. Specifically, Run This Town from their album Buzzin' About. It's literally impossible to license legit tracks for podcasts, so if you like funk and horns, listen to this record via a paid channel like iTunes or Spotify. :P
We cover...
Manage Flitter, which is a tool for Twitter that helps you follow/unfollow people.Dragon Naturally Speaking. Gil has been using it for a few weeks now and has some interesting comments for translators considering Dragon.ELSA pronunciation app. Neither of us has used it, but we talked about it anyway.The news about certified translations in Europe.

Personality types and an interview w/Richard Brooks of http://k-international.com to talk about #Brexit, how translators and agencies can all get along, Capitalism, how we can all sell the true value of our services, and how we can look for innovative ways to go about it.