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7 Must-Haves You Should Look Out For

With globalization on the rise, language barriers have become one of the primary obstacles keeping businesses from expanding into international markets. Thankfully, with the help of translation services, overcoming these barriers is possible.

However, choosing the right translation company can be challenging, especially if you don’t know what to look for. In this blog post, we’ll help you figure out how to choose the best translation company for your needs.

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First of all, a necessary disclaimer: we are not referring to “free translation” as a free-of-charge process. In prior articles, we have stated how one can get zero-cost translation from Google Translate and other machine translation tools, at their own discretion.

The term “free translation” is generally referred to as a type of translation that deviates from the original source, while maintaining its essence nonetheless. Some of the terms that you might have heard of include transcreation or creative translation. Despite its growing popularity, there is still some confusion around this method, particularly in terms of how it differs from literal translation. In this article, we will be taking a closer look at what free translation means, when it is appropriate to use it and what it involves.

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The Generative Pre-training Transformer Chat, better known as ChatGPT, is an artificial intelligence chatbot developed by the company OpenAI, which allows users to ask it questions using conversational or natural language. It was released in November 2022 with the goal of generating text in a similar way to humans, which can be used for a variety of applications, such as chatbots, automatic content generation, and language translation.

In the face of such advances in artificial intelligence, many professionals and organizations wonder: is this really a tool that has arrived to replace human translators?

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In today’s world, where people and cultures are more interconnected than ever, translators have a crucial role to play. Often underrated heroes, they have an extraordinary ability: the power to alter the course of pretty much every event. From mistranslations sparking global conflicts to exceptional literary works fostering cross‑cultural understanding, translation has had an undeniable influence on shaping our society.

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