Disclaimer: This is a pretty important bit. I was contacted by the CEO of Precision Translation Tools Pte Ltd on 18 May 2017 to participate in their blogging translator review program. I established immediately that I do not endorse or disavow products and that my time to experiment with it … Read More
(or Wherever You Keep Your Mobile Phone) I wrote a short piece on this subject that was published in the May/June 2017 edition of the American Translator’s Association Chronicle, detailing how to leverage your mobile device’s speech recognition capabilities as an additional tool for your work. The article can be … Read More
Roughly a month ago, a short exchange came up on Twitter between Jeromobot, NAJIT Observer and me, on how to customize vocabulary while using Swype as your speech recognition tool in one of the mobile+computer workflows described elsewhere on this blog. It is said that a picture is worth a … Read More
Having been doing this for a living for a few years now, I have come across a number of situations where that most dreadful of file formats has smashed through my neatly designed workflows, providing endless hours of “fun”. Now as I’m sure you are aware, there are a number … Read More
Note: Originally posted on PEEMPIP because I was too lazy to put it here first. So, I’ve gone on how to talk to a computer or mobile phone in order to convert our words (or pre-caffeine fix mumbling, in my case) into neatly arranged characters, in the hope of forming … Read More
Note: The videos were totally unscripted, and edited with all the sophistication of a caveman trying to use a fountain pen on his cave wall. You have been warned! As some of you may know, I’ve been interested in using voice recognition software for translating for the past few months. … Read More
Hosted on Translation Tribulations, and written in Portuguese: Resumo O OS/X, o sistema operativo da Apple, inclui nas suas últimas versões a aplicação “Ditado”, que permite ditar para o computador numa panóplia de diferentes idiomas, com a dita máquina a transcrever o texto ditado para o ecrã. Neste momento, poderão … Read More