e-i-consulting and Translation

Google Wave and Translation

2009-11-16T05:53:00.000-08:00

1. I've seen a lot of messages floating around about Google Wave:

https://wave.google.com/wave/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Wave

http://completewaveguide.com/

Wikipedia: Google Wave

How To Converge Translation together with Web 2.0/3.0
http://www.gliffy.com/publish/1476779/

How to get a Google Wave invite or invitation

http://webheadswave.wikispaces.com/

I have even received one of the highly sought invitations to the beta version, eurominuteman@googlewave.com (don't use this for email, it is not classic email protocol code!). Let's see if it affects the translation business. Here's a place to start to collect some benchmarks...

Benchmarks

Quintura visual cloud search: Google Wave Translation
http://quintura.com/?request=google%20wave%20translation&searchvia=0&page=1&savelink

Clusty.com clustered search: Google Wave Translation
http://clusty.com/search?query=google+wave+translation&tb=opensearch&

Facebook: Google Wave Translation
http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=google+wave+translation&init=quick

Blog Search: Google Wave Translation

Twitter Micro-Blog Search: Google Wave Translation

Second Life Search: Google Wave Translation

Diigo Search: Google Wave Translation

Delicious Search: Google Wave Translation

Friendfeed Search: Google Wave Translation

2. My Findings

Rosy is a real-time automatic translation robot, built on top of Google Wave and Google Translate, enabling real-time, multilingual, collaborative communication. For more information: http://wave.google.com and http://translate.google.com

Aunt Rosie — Google Wave Translation Robot

Google Wave used to have a realtime language translation robot named Rosy Etta. Unfortunately it isn't currently available, so I had to write my own. I named my translation bot Aunt Rosie after my aunt and as a tribute to the original Rosy.

http://andrewhitchcock.org/?post=322

To get started, you should add aunt-rosie@appspot.com to your contacts. Now invite her to a Wave. Aunt Rosie will automatically insert a language drop down into your blip when you've typed enough for her to recognize your language. Select the language you'd like to translate to and she'll reply with the translation.

...Yes, it significantly affects the translation business!... It's Collaborative Translation!

Join the group Wave Technology & Translation
and check the Diigo social bookmarking group Google Wave

Check the ProZ.com Collaborative Team:
Google Wave Team DE > EN-US http://www.proz.com/team/1426

This is awesome! Any questions?

Introducing Translations for Facebook Connect / Google Translator Toolkit

2009-10-06T06:48:00.000-07:00

Translations for Facebook Connect is available as a free tool for developers worldwide to simplify the process of translating a website, IFrame or FBML-based application into any of the languages Facebook currently supports.

For example, with Translations for Facebook Connect, country tourist boards or travel sites that want to attract foreign visitors on holiday can use this framework to translate their sites and automatically present the content to users in their native language after they log in with Facebook Connect.

http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=308

Check this one too, at the Ning: Collaborative Translation

Facebook On Its Way to Being A Social Superpower /
Facebook Acquires FriendFeed (Social Network Aggregator)

http://collaborative-translation.ning.com/forum/topics/facebook-on-its-way-to-being-a

As well as the sub-group: Google Translator Toolkit

http://collaborative-translation.ning.com/group/googletranslationcenter

First ProZ.com Virtual Conference

2009-08-20T02:03:00.000-07:00

Welcome to ProZ.com's First Virtual Conference celebrating 10 years of ProZ.com and International Translation day!

First and largest gathering of professionals in the history of the translation industry, this virtual event will take place September 30th, from 10:00 AM GMT to 22:00 GMT.

More information and registration details at:

http://collaborative-translation.ning.com/events/first-prozcom-virtual

Second Life Olympic Games 2012

2009-06-10T23:51:00.000-07:00

The 2012 Olympic Games in London is a mega-event for languages, cross-cultural communication, translation, and interpreting.

Check the BBC document briefing about the general planning steps forecasted:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/16208292/The-Olympics-in-London-2012

This is what happened in Second Life for Beijing 2008:

In the course of this briefing, e-i-consulting has established Ning social groups and Second Life support groups, and has also become a member of Second Life groups focused on the Second Life Olympic Games 2012 in London.

The Ning social group and Second Life Olympic Game groups are:

SL Olympic Games 2012
http://world.secondlife.com/group/92f1e602-a45c-4037-5ed3-36f3bba57df3

London Olympics 2012
http://world.secondlife.com/group/464bfbf3-2b53-78fc-d79f-584b5b1d1434

- According Ning social group:
http://sl-olympic-games-2012-london.ning.com/

The Ning social groups and Second Life support groups are:

Virtual Quality Management
http://world.secondlife.com/group/746ef615-8cd5-f08d-56c3-37076b641a74

- According Ning social group:
http://virtual-learning-quality.ning.com/

Virtual Help Desk Consulting
http://world.secondlife.com/group/cb8ef9d4-1e86-eca1-3735-167a94ad5f97

- According Ning social group:
http://virtual-help-desk-consulting.ning.com/

Feel free to join, network, and contribute your strengths and resources for a virtual, hybrid, and mixed reality enhancement of the Olympic Games 2012 in London.

Second Life avatars:
Eurominuteman Jameson, EIConsulting Jameson

Virtual Learning & Giving Newbies A Good First Experience
http://avalon-project.ning.com/group/virtuallearninggivingnewbiesagoodfirstexperience

H1N1 Swine Flu Map

2009-04-28T00:44:00.000-07:00

This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but an oinker.

View 2009 Swine Flu (H1N1) Outbreak Map in a larger map

Virtual Use Case: Translation Services & Interpreting in the IT Domain

2009-03-02T08:32:00.000-08:00

Check out how a Collaborative Translation project in the IT sector can be performed in a virtual environment:

http://tinyurl.com/virtual-use-case-translation

IT Project Description

Translation services within the framework of an outsourcing deal. Our customer has been granted several contracts for IT applications from an automobile manufacturer. The documentation displays some gaps, and is compiled in German.

Tasks

Translation services and interpreting from German to English, and partly in reverse, in order to ensure a good transition. An Indian partner is also involved.

Requirements

- fluent German
- fluent English
- MS Office

Three people are needed. The project can also be performed as a part-time job, in consultation.

Our Virtual Solution for You

Let us match our configuration, please check the Mindmap Overview (Flash is required)

http://tinyurl.com/virtual-homeoffice

1. Real 2D

2. Virtual 3D

IBM Virtual World Guidelines
http://work.secondlife.com/

Virtual Learning & How to Give Newbies a Good First Experience
Virtual Office in Second Life (without sound)
A Slideshow with Sound

A sustainable way to save time and travel costs,
and to behave anti-CO2 friendly!

In-World Planning via 3D Mindmaps

Happy New Year 2009

2008-12-19T08:37:00.001-08:00

A Happy New Year 2009 from James O'Reilly, e-i-consulting!
Ein Glückliches Neues Jahr 2009 von James O'Reilly, e-i-consulting!

http://tinyurl.com/e-i-consulting-translation

Synchrone Translation

2008-12-01T23:19:00.000-08:00

A new Ning group was established at Collaborative Translation - Synchrone Translation.

This group discusses how the cybernetic re-structuring of the translation process towards synchronous organizational structures between the author and translator will impact and supersede the boundaries, parameters, and variables of traditionally composed and asynchronous Gutenberg / Tayloristic organizational structures.

It is a meeting place for authors and translators for the purpose of establishing a synchronous organizational structure for translation.

http://collaborative-translation.ning.com/group/synchronetranslation

Google Audio Indexing

2008-11-03T15:28:00.000-08:00

Google Labs is tinkering on a new way of performing search queries within videos.

Take a look at this discussion in the Ning Group for Subtitling:

http://collaborative-translation.ning.com/group/subtitling/forum/topics/google-audio-indexing

Preliminary AutoCAD PDF/DWG Preparation for the Language Translation of AutoCAD DWF Files

2008-10-04T08:27:00.001-07:00

Translators usually need to perform an advance word count in accordance with EN 15038 in order to deliver a quotation for language translation, then the file delivery format is important.

Step into the process either at 1. or 2., and please perform the following preliminary preparation steps:

Required work package information: What file format is provided, what CAD text code characteristics (more below) exist within the drawing, and what is the specified file delivery format?

1. If AutoCAD PDF is provided and PDF is to be delivered

1.1 Use the following PDF conversion service providers for MS Word counting:

CometDocs.com

http://www.cometdocs.com/

ABBY PDF Transformer 3.0 (shareware)
http://www.pdftransformer.com/

OCR Terminal: Online Conversion of *.pdf and *.jpg to *.doc
(25 pages per month and registration)
http://www.ocrterminal.com/

Free PDF to Word Conversion (browser-based)
http://www.pdfonline.com/pdf2word/index.asp

1.2 And use the sticky notes function of PDF Exchange Viewer for translating:

PDF Exchange Viewer (freeware)
http://www.angusj.com/pdftkb/

2. If AutoCAD PDF* is provided and DWF is to be delivered.

2.1 Word counting is achieved by conversion of PDF to DWG, then DWG to DWF, then use of TranslateCAD*:

PDF2DWG (shareware)
http://www.autodwg.com/pdf-to-dwg-converter/

* Whereas, the source drawing must use MTEXT or DTEXT objects for CAD text coding in order to deliver a word count, and not just drawing objects, like curves, lines, and hatches, else OCR treatment is necessary.

DWG2DWF (shareware)
http://www.autodwg.com/DWG_DWF_Converter/

- Text Inspection of the DWF

Freewheel (Web 2.0 browser-based viewer)
http://freewheel.autodesk.com/dwf.aspx

AutoDesk Design Review (DWF freeware)
http://dwfcommunity.autodesk.com/learn/downloads-and-plug-ins.html

- Text Extraction to TXT, then word counting

TranslateCAD** (shareware)
http://www.translationtospanish.com/cad/

** Whereas, the source drawing must use MTEXT or DTEXT objects for CAD text coding in order to deliver a word count, and not just drawing objects, like curves, lines, and hatches, else this path is not feasible.

2.2 Translation is processed in two ways:

2.2.1 By using the Review function of Autodesk Design Review

Check the AutoCAD DWF Community Website for more about design and translating review processes...
http://dwfcommunity.autodesk.com/learn/downloads-and-plug-ins.html

2.2.2 Or by using the previously extracted TXT file of TranslateCAD***, translating the TXT file with Word and a Translation Memory TM, then reinserting the TXT into the DWF file via TranslateCAD.

*** Whereas, the source drawing must use MTEXT or DTEXT objects for CAD text coding in order to deliver a TXT file, and not just drawing objects, like curves, lines, and hatches.

Do you know some more tips and tweeks in the area of AutoCAD?

- From Google Sketchup Pro 8 (Pro 6+7) To Second Life
http://e-i-consulting-second-life.blogspot.com/2008/10/from-google-sketchup-6-pro-to-second.html

Further discussions about the Collaborative Translation of AutoCad Files are here:
http://collaborative-translation.grouply.com/message/64

Update 2010-10-01: Check Immersive World Engineer & Information Consulting on Facebook for new mesh technology developments in virtual worlds!

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How to Use Twitter Micro-Blogging for Translation Purposes

2008-09-30T15:43:00.000-07:00

Web 2.0 has amazing ways of communicating...
Twitter Micro-Blogging

Twitter in Plain English

Sub-titled in over 49 languages

If you want to know how this invention can be used for Translation Purposes, check this out:

http://tinyurl.com/how-to-twitter-for-translation

Collaborative Win/Win Agencies are free to add their Agency Twitter data to this database:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pdD2fESMENo0fQ_iuq--TRQ

Google Translation Center: Statistical Machine Translation Is Converging with Crowdsourcing and Translation Memory 2.0

2008-09-26T22:21:00.000-07:00

Language as an art, and language as a science are facing imminent cybernetic convergence. The clock is ticking for the obsolete ways of Gutenberg, Taylorism, and Web 1.0.

The drawbacks of MT are now being converged into a new continuous quality enhancing mix within the Google Translation Center, which is in an imminent rollout:

Statistical Machine Translation + Crowdsourcing + Web 2.0 Translation Memory

Check for development updates and cutting-edge benchmarks under:

http://collaborative-translation.ning.com/group/googletranslationcenter

Ever Heard of SMIL?

2008-09-14T03:54:00.000-07:00

SMIL (Synchronous Multimedia Integration Language)

for Multimedia Subtitling and Language Translation...

Check out what's unfolding here:

http://collaborative-translation.ning.com/group/subtitling/forum/topic/show?id=2237585%3ATopic%3A1605

Collaborative Use of Wikis for Terminology, Style Guides and More

2008-08-29T05:10:00.000-07:00

Collaborative Translation Wiki via Google Sites

Wikis in Plain English

We made this video because wiki web sites are easy to use, but hard to describe.

Although it is not pointed out, Google Sites also adapts itself for use as a free Collaborative Translation Wiki with all the functions needed.

Main article

Check the Collaborative Translation Wiki (in process)
https://sites.google.com/site/collaborativetranslationwiki/Home

Google Sites, a new offering from Google Apps, makes creating a team site as easy as editing a document. Use Google Sites to centralize all types of information -- from videos to presentations -- and share your site with just a few people, your entire organization, or the world.

Google Sites makes it easy for anyone to create and manage simple, secure group websites. You can create and publish new pages with the click of a button, edit web pages like documents, and move content and pages around as you please. Information is stored securely online, and you decide who can edit or view the site. Google Sites is powerful enough for a company intranet, yet simple enough for a family website.

Other Benchmark Examples

http://wiki-translation.com/, ProZWiki
Open Source Server Version: TikiWiki
English Style Guide
http://www.englishtalk.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
Netcipia - Blog + Wiki + Monetize

Keep up-to-date here.

The Book of Collaborative Translation

2008-08-27T10:12:00.000-07:00

"The Book of Collaborative Translation" has been established on the Ning social networking site, Collaboration Translation.

http://collaborative-translation.ning.com/

Feel free to build along in the Table of Contents, and to contribute your information to this endeavor. As soon as some significant body of structural knowledge and case studies have unfolded, the contributions will be imported into an appropriate Wiki framework for further road-mapping and content delivery.

http://collaborative-translation.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=2237585%3ATopic%3A739

Audio Transcription Technology

2008-08-23T07:11:00.000-07:00

Audio transcription technology has made a jump in quality, but it is not cheap. The language translator community is getting into this now, and webcasting interfaces with this technology.

1. Here is a product feature matrix for Dragon 10
http://www.nuance.com/naturallyspeaking/resources/product-matrix.asp

Dragon 10 Professional
http://www.nuance.com/naturallyspeaking/products/professional.asp

Dragon Audiomining
http://www.nuance.com/naturallyspeaking/products/audiomining.asp

2. Multi-Lingual and Enhanced Use of Dragon

The multilingual version of Dragon includes English voice recognition as well as an option. You just need to create a new profile and set its second language.

In practical terms, when you want to switch from French to English, you will just need to right-click the Dragon icon next to the clock and select (let's say) "Sheila français" instead of "Sheila English".

However, it will be seen by the system as a completely separate user and will not share data and terminology with the other. Actually, it will even have to be trained from scratch as if it was different person.

It will also take a bit of time, as it saves the previous profile data before opening the new one. I wouldn't really recommend to switch back and forth.

To sum up:

Q: Does it produce high-quality UK English

A: I would say so. It come with British/US/Australian/SEAAsian tailored dictionary files, and I guess these languages are really their core business...

Q: Is dictating in both English and French possible in the same document?

A: It is possible if you switch profile, but not practical due to save/load time.

Q: Put in simple, non-computer expert terms, what are the advantages of the preferred version over the standard? Is it worth the extra 100€?

A: Dragon is available in a number of versions. The Standard edition ($100) has the same accuracy as the others, but it’s just for bare-bones dictation. To get the more advanced goodies described in this review — the natural-language commands, Bluetooth mikes and recorders — you need the Preferred edition ($200). It also lets you set up voice macros that type out boilerplate text. For example, you can say, “Buzz off,” and it will type: “Thanks for thinking of me! Unfortunately, I’m afraid I’m unable to accept your kind offer at this time.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/07/technology/personaltech/07pogue.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2

3. Google has added speech recognition capability in some YouTube videos that enables you to search for text spoken in these videos.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/in-their-own-words-political-videos.html

4. Various other tips and services towards "wav-to-text" transcription, video search and administration, and shownote taking are reported within the following link list too:

http://www.blinkx.com/
http://trafcom.typepad.com/blog/2007/01/podcasting_secr_1.html
http://www.veotag.com/
http://www.clipblast.com/
http://www.pixsy.com/
http://jott.com/

5. Streaming - Transcribing - Blogging

http://www.webcastacademy.net/node/2068

In conjunction with Synchrone Web-Based Author < > Translator Processing, a significant productivity gain may be achieved.

I hope to get this process running soon...

http://collaborative-translation.ning.com/group/transcription

Social Networking for Collaborative Translation

2008-08-01T12:29:00.000-07:00

A new social networking platform has been established for collaboratively-minded translators in order to explore opportunities, ideas, best practices, and implementations for win/win collaborative translation relationships.

http://collaborative-translation.ning.com/

Introduction

2008-07-11T00:56:00.001-07:00

This is the video that got me to Web 2.0...
Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us