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Is ‘free’ machine translation worth the risk?

Machine translation quality disparities Machine translation (MT) is often less expensive and has a faster turnaround than hiring a human translator. But before your organization prioritizes cost over quality, make sure you’re informed about the multiple and concerning problems you may encounter with MT. Gender bias bias: prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, … Continued

The benefits of Translation Memory for health and human services

When your organization needs to complete multiple translation projects, cost becomes important in choosing a translation partner. Propio’s Translation Memory feature helps health and human services organizations like yours to make the most of your translation budget. What is Translation Memory? Propio uses a Translation Memory database for each client that stores the translations for … Continued

Can machine translation (MT) replace human translators?

Machine Translation (MT) has advanced significantly in the past decade to the point that people wonder if human translation will be relevant in future generations. MT vs. Human Translation While MT is often easy to use, cost-efficient, and faster than human translation, MT programmers have yet to resolve several crucial pitfalls: Liability Literal Translation Literacy … Continued

Law-firm ensures information security while cutting cost and turnaround time

Introduction Compromised security can come with serious consequences in the legal industry. Discover how this law-firm is meeting demands for large data sets with extremely short deadlines in a secure workflow. As a law-firm representing a large corporation, this high-profile case required the translation of over 50 million words into English. The scope of the … Continued

Reducing Emerson’s Annual Localization Costs

Introduction Emerson, a world-leader in manufacturing and automation solutions, partnered with Propio to consolidate translation efforts, introduce process efficiencies and translation memory improvements, yielding a near 40% decrease in cost per word translated. Emerson is a Fortune 200 industrial manufacturing, technology and software leader with more than 200 locations worldwide. As a large multinational organization, … Continued

Technology company integrates a Neural Machine Translation solution within a translation workflow to reduce costs and drive efficiencies.

Introduction Propio created and trained domain-specific Neural Machine Translation (NMT) engines and tested their effectiveness across multiple domains. The results? A methodology that can be applied to industries and clients for an improved quality output – even with non-traditional languages. Propio provides Neural Machine Translation (NMT) in over 130 translation directions for global clients across … Continued

How domain‑specific Neural Machine Translation solutions support greater output accuracy and cost efficiencies.

Introduction Propio created and trained domain-specific Neural Machine Translation (NMT) engines and tested their effectiveness across multiple domains. The results? A methodology that can be applied to industries and clients for an improved quality output – even with non-traditional languages. Propio provides Neural Machine Translation (NMT) in over 130 translation directions for global clients across … Continued

Manufacturer integrates secure On-Premise Machine Translation solution to connect its workforce

Introduction When employees need to collaborate across borders and languages, security and speed are key. That’s why this leading industrial manufacturer harnessed Machine Translation to streamline its internal communications without compromising a single megabyte of data. Discover how a single platform brought together a sprawling global workforce of more than half a million employees operating … Continued

Increasing quality and reducing time to market by utilizing a client-specific trained Machine Translation solution

Introduction How Neural Machine Translation (NMT) engines can be customized to handle large volumes of material and client-specific corpora, improving quality while saving time and reducing costs. One of Propio’s largest clients needed a high volume of regulated material translated on a cyclical basis from English into seven languages: Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Thai, … Continued