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How does technical translation support international quality leadership in mechanical engineering and plant construction?
The translation of technical texts, technical documentation and communication is as demanding as it is responsible. Especially in mechanical engineering and plant construction, where high-quality products are in demand worldwide and must therefore be understood and reliably operated in all languages. We explain the specific requirements in this key industry.
What is technical translation?
The translation of technical texts, technical documentation and communication is as extensive as it is detailed and comes with great responsibility. We explain the essential factors and explain what to look out for to achieve optimal results in every respect.
Advantages of localisation tools: when translations need specialised knowledge and precise tools
The localisation of software products is a complex process with individual specific characteristics and requirements. It requires highly specialised knowledge and corresponding processes. Localisation tools can provide substation support for this by facilitating workflows, reducing effort and increasing precision. We show the possibilities and tool variants.
Synthetic content: aside from machine translation, what can artificial intelligence do and what does it need?
Companies can use synthetic texts and translations, images, videos and voices created by artificial intelligence to great effect with minimal effort. Nicole Sixdorf, our expert for translation management, explains what to look out for and how this works in a sensible, targeted and successful way.
Check, evaluate and ensure translation quality: the way to the perfect result
Offering perfect translation quality is elementary for us as a language service provider. But how can it be measured? There is no one straightforward answer to this, explains Nicole Sixdorf, our expert for translation management. For this reason, she explains here which individual factors and requirements determine the path to a perfect result in terms of quality and content, and what ensuring translation quality has to do with diligent checking, assessment and evaluation.
Software localisation and machine translation – does it work?
In the right conditions, machine translation can make a significant contribution to localising effective and user-friendly software products in any desired language. We explain how this works best.
Six tips for successful software localisation
Software localisation is the key to ensuring software can be used around the world (usability) and a consistently high level of user satisfaction (user experience). We have helpful tips for optimal preparation and implementation.
Five challenges for technical writing and technical translation
Technical communication is critically important in all areas. While industries drive development, it is up to intermediaries to keep pace to make products and results understandable and accessible to users in different languages. The challenges for technical writing and technical translation are correspondingly high.
MTPE: Tailor-made or off the peg? How specifications ensure that machine translation fits
Our expert for translation management, Nicole Sixdorf, recently asked herself out loud what is the decisive factor when it comes to professional and appropriate corporate use of machine translation – and gave a lecture on this for the professional users of the tekom industry association. She has now summarised these findings in an insightful article. In it, Sixdorf explains that the right specifications are needed, what these are – and what this has to do with the comfort of a winter coat.
What is software localisation?
Software products must be able to be used effectively and easily by users and customers worldwide. In order for them to appear as if they have been written and developed specifically for the target market, they must be optimally adapted to cultural user behaviour in the respective country. Professional software localisation ensures precisely this.
What are localisation, internationalisation and globalisation?
Localisation, globalisation and internationalisation are similar terms and so are often used as synonyms. On closer inspection, however, they differ, and they complement each other. Companies that operate on an international scale or plan to do so should know the details and contexts of the terms so that their communication works in all languages and markets.
Help in the crisis, a future afterwards: Christmas donation for children’s charity nph
Our Christmas donation is going to nph Kinderhilfe Lateinamerika e. V. again this year and will support the construction and expansion of a school in the south of Haiti, which is still suffering from the consequences of the earthquake disaster and also from the consequences of the coronavirus crisis.
The right tone in all languages: multimedia localisation from oneword
Today, education and knowledge, information and entertainment are conveyed in many different media formats and languages. They are multimedia and multilingual, because it is important to reach a wide range of people in their language and to reach them in line with their skills and preferences. Professional multimedia localisation ensures this in the best possible way using all channels.
Join in now: Comment on the DIN draft standard for translation-oriented writing
As a permanent DIN member, oneword has been actively contributing towards shaping new norms and standards in the translation industry since 2019. We are currently focusing on an important standard for translation-oriented writing. Experts and future users now have the opportunity to comment on the standard in its draft status. We warmly invite you to do this.
Website localisation: translate websites and online shops efficiently and effectively
Today, business and the possibilities it presents are endless. Making the most of these, however, poses a few challenges for international companies. One of them is communicating effectively in the target markets so that potential customers understand and feel understood, especially when the initial point of contact is the website and online shop. A website translation that just focuses on the text is not sufficient for this.
SEO translation: When you need to be found around the world
Search engine optimisation (SEO) is the key to greater visibility on the internet. International companies face the great challenge of using SEO to optimise the translation of their keywords and content.
oneMTPE: our effective process for professional machine translation
Professional communication and translation processes require clear workflows and need to be handled efficiently. That is why we have developed oneServices, a "construction kit" of services and tools for effective and productive processes. In our blog series, we present them one by one. oneMTPE – our service for using machine translation efficiently at a professional corporate level – follows on from our online correction platform oneReview, our terminology management system oneTerm and our order and customer portal oneTask.
The oneTask order portal for the best possible overview
Globalisation has continuously increased the demands placed on translation processes. With oneServices, oneword creates solutions for optimum translation management that do justice to the complexity of translations and manage them effectively. In our blog series, we present them one by one. Following on from our oneReview correction platform and oneTerm terminology management system, we now take a look at our order and customer portal oneTask.
Transcreation: Five tips for the path to a successful international campaign
Transcreation, the targeted creative adaptation of content into other languages and cultures, enables marketing specialists at global companies to think big, and keep the actual effort involved at a manageable level. Advertising messages and marketing materials can be accurately and attractively transferred and used in a targeted way worldwide without needing to engage international network agencies or local advertising agencies. Our five tips for transcreation projects show which factors are important.
With transcreation, international campaigns strike the right tone
Brand image and advertising impact are significantly influenced by language and text intention. By speaking the customer’s language, companies reach customers who understand them and feel understood. For this to be successful on a global scale, the brand message must be just as effective in the foreign language as it is in the original. The solution to this is transcreation. We explain what this is, how it works and what really matters.
Many roads lead to terminology: Consistent corporate language right from the start
The process of creating or extracting terminology is also referred to as term mining, which suggests fitting parallels: Just like stone or minerals, the terms are already there, possibly buried deep in a company's documents, but they're definitely valuable to its corporate language. So all that needs to be done is to uncover this body of words and bring them to light.
8 good reasons to choose oneword.
Learn more about what we do and what sets us apart from traditional translation agencies.
We explain 8 good reasons and more to choose oneword for a successful partnership.