Medical Translation: a Vital Service for Medical Products Manufacturers

With the nation growing more diverse every year, the need for translation services continues to grow as well, particularly in the medical field. Hospitals and health care providers are now being required to provide foreign language interpreters, since a growing amount of research shows that communication has a direct effect on patient safety. The same holds true for manufacturers of medical products or medical devices. With the complexity of these devices, including robotics and prostheses, manufacturers are in need of multi-language translation services capable of incorporating industry-specific and technically accurate terminology into their documentation, websites, and computer software. Why It Matters Manufacturers selling their products in other countries must have a thorough understanding of the domestic requirements of a particular targeted country.
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Excel Translations Announces Expanded Chicago-area Services

In addition to offices and operation centers in San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Europe, and South America, Excel Translations is now offering an expanded team of local account management, sales support, and project management for the Chicago-Milwaukee metropolitan market. With more than forty years of combined experience in the life sciences and translation industries, Excel Translations’ Chicago team is your local source for quality ISO-certified medical, technical, and corporate translations. Since 1996, Excel Translations has been one of the top translation companies, serving the globalization needs of businesses and organizations, including many Fortune 1000 companies in both regulated and non-regulated industries in North America, Asia, and Europe.
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Top Translation Company, Excel Translations Celebrates 20 Years of Operation

Excel Translations, Inc. is proud to announce that 2016 marks its twentieth year in business. A premier foreign-language-service provider with headquarters in San Francisco, California and offices worldwide, Excel Translations is a woman-owned business specializing in ISO-certified medical, technical, and corporate translations. For twenty years, Excel Translations has been providing quality language translation services to a wide range of clients, including Fortune 1000 companies. Excel Translations offers professional translations of regulatory and legal documentation, medical and technical manuals, marketing collateral, eLearning materials, and labeling, as well as software and website localization services.
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Technical Translation Service: Importance of Defining Your Audience

Breaking into a new foreign market is not an easy task especially without acquiring professional technical translation services. Audience demographics and content purpose are important when translating content. Most of the time, companies only concern themselves with their target language – the language into which they are going to have their materials translated. More often than not, this has led to translations failing to grow their business or connect with the intended audience. In addition to deciding what language or languages you will have translated, translation projects also need to tailor the message to the target audience for it to be a complete success. Opt for Tailored Translation It is always a good idea for a company to tailor their translation project by putting themselves in their target market’s shoes. Doing this can greatly influence the final quality of the translation, but it might be easier said than done.
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Target the Right Language with the Help of Translation Companies

A recent article from the Guardian states that the United States has the second largest population of Spanish speaking people in the world, second only to Mexico. Spanish is growing in use on the web, as well; both Facebook and Twitter stated that Spanish is the second largest language used globally after English. Companies selling products or services in the US and internationally need to be aware of this evolving trend. Spanish Language is changing the Landscape across America and the Globe The volume of Spanish translated website content in the US is growing rapidly, and in some unexpected places. For example, to better serve their communities, some local government agencies in the US are now publishing all their website content in both Spanish and English. The increased number of Spanish speaking residents within the US is driving this trend. The states of New Mexico, California, and Texas continue to lead the US in Spanish speaking populations.
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Corporate Translation Services Still Matter in a World of Machines

If you've been on the Web for any length of time, you've probably seen at least one example demonstrating the unintentional silliness that results when a translation goes wrong. The mistakes people make when they're trying to translate something into a language with which they are not familiar seems to be a popular source of amusement. On humor websites, one can find several badly translated and unintentionally hilarious signs from all around the world. Such mistakes clearly demonstrate that there is no real substitute for corporate translations done by professional translators. Of course, not all translation errors are quite so funny. A mismatch between what the intent of the message may be and what the targeted audience understands can cause needless confusion and delay – two things you don't want when time is short and clear communication is critical.
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The Fault with Many of the Technical Translations Produced by Computers

A universal translation machine, or a device that can instantly translate languages into other languages, remains something that’s only possible in the realm of science fiction books and films. However, that does not mean that humans are giving up hope for a machine solution. Apps for online translations have been introduced to provide instant translations, but they are still only rudimentary and they lack the quality and sophistication of human translations. How These Translation Apps Work These apps make use of a lexical database, which contain basic grammar and linguistic rules, as well as many words from dictionaries. When translating a particular passage, these apps analyze the syntax, or its grammatical structure, along with its morphology and its semantics.
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