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Lingo24 Solutions:We really can help you do more effective business internationally - and if we can't, you'll know this within 30 seconds of speaking to us on the 'phone. Christof’s BlogArchive for February, 2007Office 2007 format converter for users of older Office versTuesday, February 27th, 2007Not everybody is going to buy Office 2007 right now, but many will need to be able to open the new file formats that it creates. Microsoft offers a tool to help users of Office 2002 and Office XP to convert the new file format into something readable. Might be a good one to download when you find a minute… Goolge’s statistical MT now allows for human (post) editingTuesday, February 20th, 2007Who ever looked at the best statistic based Machine Translation (and Chris from LinearB is adament that it is LinearB) will know that their MT process strongly suggests a post MT human editing step. We also know that Google is using statistical MT for some languages. So put those two together and you won’t be surprised at all that Google now allows a post translation editing stage for their “beta” languages - i.e. those that are done by statistical MT (including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, and Russian). So what that means is that you can suggest a better translation if the MT is not accurate enough or, for example, mixed up nouns or stuff like that. Vista might improve translation client’s experienceMonday, February 19th, 2007It always happens: you send the English to Chinese translation to your client and they come back to you saying that the document only contains squares or question marks. The advice to the client in such a case is to install Windows’ Asian language support (which, by the way, is very greedy on hdd space). It seems that this is now coming to an end: Vista has all language support files installed by default - which means that it should not only support Asian scripts, but also right to left scripts. I was about to say “well done, Microsoft”, but I am actually not sure how well they have done, because my Vista upgrade pack is currently “in the mail”, and I am actually not too sure yet, if I’ll install it, considering the history of glitches in the first release of MS OS. - we’ll see. Olifant’s still very niceWednesday, February 14th, 2007I just installed a new computer, which is always a good time to sort out software that is useful from the piles of stuff that I have tried once and which didn’t work. One outstanding one is still Enlaso’s Olifant - a TM editor for TMX and Trados txt files - it is just very handy and a great way to do some basic TM management tasks. So obviously it was one of the first ones back on my new laptop. |