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The explosion of globalisation has posed a mandate for businesses quenching for global expansion to prep up for talking the language of their customers irrespective of where they are located across the globe. However, localisation services still prove to be a cornerstone for many international corporate empires as businesses or individuals often get confused with…
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Global language technology company thebigword has been awarded a new contract with the North East Police under the Police’s DPS Language Services framework. The North East Police, consisting of Northumbria, Durham and Cleveland Police forces, previously worked with thebigword on the CCS framework. thebigword was successfully awarded the new contract following a rebid. Clare Riches,…
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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…
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Yorkshire Water have renewed their telephone interpreting contract with global language technology company, thebigword Group. Yorkshire Water is one of the largest regulated water and wastewater companies in the UK, relied on by people within the Yorkshire County for their basic health needs and lifestyles. This contract renewal will allow Yorkshire Water to continue to utilise thebigword’s telephone interpreting…
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Telecom industry: A closer look The last decade has seen a revolution in the telecom industry. Concepts like 5G, IoT, chatbots, and blockchain are already part of our routine lives. To top it up, the recent years of globalisation, explosion of content pool and the need for communicating across the globe anytime, from anywhere, has…
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Global language technology company thebigword, has launched an exciting new Telephone Interpreting platform for interpreters, available in both desktop and mobile applications. This new way of accepting and servicing Telephone Interpreting calls will allow interpreters to support thebigword clients and the limited English-speaking community. thebigword have worked closely with telephone interpreters working with WordSynk TI…
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Global Language Technology company thebigword has secured a new contract with the UK Government’s Department for Transport. The Department for Transport is the government department responsible for the English transport network, as well as limited transport matters in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The Department details with the likes of rail, road, aviation and maritime…
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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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Global language technology company thebigword Group has partnered with fellow language services group Cintra, to provide language support to the Midlands Police. As part of the latest DPS Police Framework, thebigword will supply translation services as well as their state-of-the-art telephone interpreting service to 9 Police Forces as part of the Midlands Police contract. These…
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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…
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The situation unfolding in Ukraine weighs heavily on us. Our hearts are with our team members, clients, linguists and their families in Ukraine. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the brave troops and civilians in Ukraine during this difficult time. In light of this crisis, thebigword has made a significant donation in the name…
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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…
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