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James OReilly

Google Translation Center: The World's Largest Translation Memory - GigaOM - 0 views

  • Google is preparing to launch Google Translation Center
  • This is an interesting move, and it has broad implications for the translation industry, which up until now has been fragmented and somewhat behind the times, from a technology standpoint
  • Google has been investing significant resources in a multi-year effort to develop its statistical machine translation technology.
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  • Google Translation Center is a straightforward and very clever way to gather a large corpus of parallel texts to train its machine translation systems.
  • If Google releases an API for the translation management system, it could establish a de facto standard for integrated machine translation and translation memory, creating a language platform around which projects like Der Mundo can build specialized applications and collect more training data.
  • On the other hand, GTC could be bad news for translation service bureaus — especially those that use proprietary translation management systems as a way to hold customers and translators hostage.
  • For freelancers, GTC could be very good news; they could work directly with clients and have access to high quality productivity tools. Overall this is a welcome move that will force service providers to focus on quality, while Google, which is competent at software, can focus on building tools.
  • That strategy would also eliminate a potential conflict of interest
  • translation professionals are understandably wary of contributing to something that could put them out of work
  • as well as avoid channel conflicts with partners who will be their best advocates in selling to various clients
  • my guess is Google will make this a free tool for the translation industry to use, and it will figure the money part out later. It can afford to be patient
  • I remain convinced that a multilingual web will be a reality in a short time, and that a menagerie of tools and services will emerge over the next few years — some geared toward helping translators, some toward building translation communities, and others that make publishing multilingual sites and blogs easy and intuitive.
  • the web will begin translating itself, and within a short time
Sheryl A. McCoy

n2teaching: Dr. Marzano, have you seen this? - 0 views

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    This Periodic Table of Visualizations is the most awesome mashup; reminded me of Marzano, et al meta-analysis of instructional strategies
Nergiz Kern

SlideRocket - Create, Manage, and Share Presentations on the Web - 0 views

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    SlideRocket is a web application that provides everything you need to design professional quality presentations, manage and share libraries of slides and assets, and to deliver presentations in person or remotely over the web.
James OReilly

Transcribing Equipment - Free Digital Transcription Software - 0 views

  • Works with speech recognition software such as Dragon Naturally Speaking to automatically convert speech to text.
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    Free: Express Scribe Transcription Playback Software Digital Transcription Audio Player Software Express Scribe is free professional audio player software for PC, Mac or Linux designed to assist the transcription of audio recordings.
Belinda Flint

YouTube - belindaflint's Channel - 4 views

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    I have just uploaded a couple of videos onto youtube going through some German grammar. At the moment I have done accusative and dative pronouns and adjective endings following indefinite articles.
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    Very professional explanation.
Isabelle Jones

Mobile technology in the MFL classroom using the iPad and iPod touch | Links into Langu... - 4 views

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    @lauradoggett @icpjones I think you'll find this Linked Up project v. interesting http://bit.ly/fDVYsW - Joe Dale (joedale) http://twitter.com/joedale/status/56390515897278464
Paul Beaufait

Twitter for Professional Development - 0 views

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    spreadsheet listing educators names, positions, contact info., and "Specific Links, Resources, Webinars Learned Through Twitter"
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    Gleaned from the Resources for Languages Diigo group
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