Diverse Clinical Trial Translations in India

Several years ago, clinical trials in India were a booming business. After becoming fully compliant withTRIPS in 2005, India was seen as a favorable place to conduct clinical trials as they boast a huge genetically diverse population, as well as a multitude of skilled health professionals. Additionally, it is estimated that India based clinical trials offered a 35-60% cost reduction compared to western based trials.

How to Create Multilingual Marketing Communications Content

Here, we break down the key factors in creating customer-focused marketing communications content and give you some practical pointers.

Neural Machine Translation (NMT): Translating Emojis

Pop culture references have always evaded dictionaries for some time after their initial adoption, and now due to the voracity and speed at which the internet consumes and discards new slang and references, machines can’t quite keep up. Ayan has pointed to “odd spellings, hashtags, urban slang, dialects, hybrid words, and emoticons” as being the major hurdles for NMT.

Language Translations: Is Balto-Slavic a Real Language?

Balto-Slavic refers to the common linguistic ancestor shared by the two languages, but is not a language spoken in the three Baltic States.

Hardware Translations: The Long Path to Chinese and Korean Keyboards

While these keyboards may seem much more complicated than the English ones is use today, students of Korean and Chinese can take heart in knowing that they are a breeze when compared to their predecessors.

Resources for Translators and Interpreters in the Life Sciences

Do a quick search and you will discover a plethora of websites and articles filled with information for translators and interpreters in the life sciences. One of the principal challenges of translating for life sciences is the highly scientific terminology and lexicon associated with the industry. This vast network of information is constantly undergoing changes, growing, and being revised as new information is available. Here I have complied a list of just a few of the great resources there are out there.

4 Important Factors Copywriters Must Keep in Mind

Grabbing the engagement of reader’s is the gold standard, and for copywriters to excel at their craft, key strategies must be realized. Here are four factors to consider when generating your copy:

Three Problems in the Translation of Chinese Websites

In general, the problems that exist across Chinese websites translations can be grouped into 3 types of errors: misspelling or misuse of words, incorrect syntactic structure, and cultural differences.

Life Science Interpretation in Clinical Settings

With multiple languages spoken around the world, and as individuals relocate or emigrate to new countries, the use of professionally trained interpretation services in health settings is increasingly necessary.

3 Important UXO Strategies to Consider

We can become so focused on the insider experience of developing and marketing our great products that we lose sight of how customers experience them. If a customer has a poor interaction or feels frustrated with an interaction, they are unlikely to buy and even less likely to return to our products. Leveraging real customer behavior to improve customer satisfaction is the process called user experience optimization, or UXO.

The Quick Guide to Website Translation

To guarantee a smooth localization process, businesses must consider website translation into account from the beginning of content creation.

Setting the Standard… (IEC 82079 European Technical Writing standards)

In relation to technical communicators, standards provide a platform from which to communicate technical ideas at an international level, to an international audience, in the most effective way possible. The idea of standardizing technical communications is relatively new, and still in development, due to the fact that standards are first composed at a voluntary-level with multiple SME contributors. However, the IEC is paving the way for technical communicators to collaborate on issues such as how documentation is optimized.