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Quick Facts: Interpreters and Translators

Summary Interpreters and translators convert information from one language into another. Quick Facts: Interpreters and Translators 2015 Median Pay $44,190 per year $21.24 per hour Typical Entry-Level Education Bachelor’s degree Work Experience in a Related Occupation None On-the-job Training Short-term on-the-job training Number of Jobs, 2014 61,000 Job Outlook, 2014-24 29% (Much faster than average) […]

The translation industry. Say what?

Technology may not replace human translators, but it will help them work better TALK into your phone in any of the big European languages and a Google app can now turn your words into a foreign language, either in text form or as an electronic voice. Skype, an internet-telephony service, said recently that it would […]

History of machine translation

Machine translation is a sub-field of computational linguistics that investigates the use of software to translate text or speech from one natural language to another. In the 1950s Machine translation became a reality in research, although references to subject can be found as early as the 17th century[citation needed]. The Georgetown experiment, which involved successful […]