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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

3 key benefits of Epic EHR interpretation integration

Does your team use electronic health records (EHR) to track and organize patient information? Whether you’re meeting patients in-person or via telehealth appointments, EHR systems help healthcare providers document treatment and patient needs. By downloading an interpretation integration for your EHR system, your staff can streamline appointments with limited-English proficient (LEP) and deaf or hard-of-hearing … Continued

Propio’s Integration with Epic EHR

Propio’s Integration with Epic EHR We believe everyone deserves to have meaningful conversations in every aspect of life, and we are committed to improving our clients’ experience. So, to help close any language gaps with patients, we offer an easy, app-based integration with your Epic platform. Our integration enables providers to access Propio interpreters or … Continued

How A Streamlined In-Country Review Process Improved Efficiency and Brand Accuracy

Introduction In-country review improves translation quality and brand adherence. Discover how our translation team helped a multinational medical manufacturer and distributor with a presence in over 30 countries, design an efficient and technology-driven in-country review (ICR) process that minimized time and costs. The Challenge With global teams and locations, the client’s Human Resources (HR) team … 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