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Clear communication in healthcare isn’t just important, it’s critical. For patients with limited English proficiency, professional medical interpreting services can mean the difference between safe, effective care and serious, preventable harm. As one of the world’s leading language service providers, we understand the stakes. Investing in professional interpreting is not only a regulatory requirement, but…

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At thebigword, we’re not just keeping up with the future of ASL interpreting – we’re helping shape it. As one of the world’s leading language service providers, we’re committed to empowering interpreters and ensuring Deaf and hard-of-hearing communities receive the highest standard of care and communication. Remote Interpreting Is the New Normal The demand for…

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The healthcare sector is a large, complex part of the economy. With constant innovations and technology developments such as Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality and Robotics, the healthcare industry is consistently undergoing rapid transformations, as well as in conjunction with new healthcare acts and reforms. Communication barriers are highly prominent throughout the world, including in the…

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When words fall short: British Sign Language Sign language is a way of communicating using hand gestures and movements, body language and facial expressions instead of spoken words, used mainly by people who are Deaf or have hearing impairments. Used by around 151,000 people in the UK, British Sign Language (BSL) is referred to as…

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What is Machine Translation? Using computers to translate text from one language to another has been a dream of computer science. With the massive explosion of digital content in recent years, the need for multimarket localisation has now become inevitable. It is only in the past ten years that Machine Translation (MT) has become a…

Continue reading Machine Translation: The pathway to global footprints in critical times

Soaring demand – the virtual shift The constant disruption to business meetings and world travel have resulted in shift of emphasis to virtual meetings and events. Albeit the transition from real to virtual was registered in all sense significantly, one critical financial aspect of this less well known is the shift of corporate budgets from…

Continue reading Why Video Remote Interpreting is here to stay

With the constant exchange of content commercially, culturally and academically in today’s world, the localization industry plays a vital role in making this possible. While translation takes away the limelight in the industry, interpreting services are often mis-considered as an extension of translation. Here, we’ll try to understand the differences in a more magnified way.…

Continue reading Interpreting: the ultimate multi-tasking

Imagine watching a drama but you can’t hear properly – or wanting to sing along to your favourite song but you can’t remember the lyrics. Boring and annoying right? These scenarios can be altered to interesting ones if you simply have the subtitles. More than 100 empirical studies highlight that captioning a video improves comprehension…

Continue reading Transcription and subtitling: knitting global entertainment closely