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A Translation Management System (TMS) is a software tool that helps businesses and organiz...
Bill 96, adopted by Québec’s National Assembly in May 2022, brings significant amendments ...
As China continues to open up and travel restrictions ease, the Chinese travel market pres...
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First things first — 2021 was a tremendous year for the gaming industry, and that's saying...
To celebrate our recent growth, Andovar has decided to kick off Q2 with a brand new look.
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Part 6: Technologies The majority of game localization service providers employ localizati...
Part 1: Pre-production Complete all pre-production tasks Before you launch your game local...
Is localization still important in the travel industry? The industry has suffered a lot du...
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Introduction The Chinese game market is large and lucrative for those with the right produ...
Introduction Companies of all sizes are expanding internationally, and choosing the right ...
Introduction Localization, internationalization, and globalization are three strategies a ...
Thailand's gaming industry is booming! In fact, the country's robust gaming community of a...
Transcreation is a necessary step in global branding. Transcreation goes further than tran...
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Julie Christine Giguère has joined Andovar as Managing Director - EMEA. In that role, she ...
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Video games were once considered a pastime for children and, later, young adults. But now,...
Analysts at NewZoo report that the global games market is expected to generate $175.8 bil...
The first translators were humans. Although artificial intelligence has made machine trans...
People who use only mobile technologies now outnumber those who only use desktop computers...
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Video content offers businesses an immersive way to show potential clients what they have ...
If you truly want to cement your position in the market, you need to understand that local...
Does your travel company have a global presence? Hotels, airlines and tour companies can g...
Artificial intelligence and automated voices are progressing more rapidly now than ever. V...
COVID's impact on the travel industry last year was devastating. This year, however, leisu...
Approximately 62% of travelers consume content, primarily videos, posted by tour operators...
After more than a year of dealing with travel restrictions, lockdowns and other factors re...
As COVID vaccinations become more prevalent and countries open up their borders, the trave...
Machines are becoming more accurate at translations, but they still aren't on par with tra...
Any digital marketing campaign requires research into the most effective keywords so that ...
Machines can translate copy quickly and with increasing accuracy. An efficient and accurat...
Managing multiple translation and localization projects can be a challenge. It also can ta...
A recent survey of 8,709 customers in 29 countries found that 76 percent prefer to buy pro...
Machine translation (MT) has become a part of life; Google Translate, for example, boasts ...
An optimized Website is a key to successfully marketing your product or service. A Website...
Machine translation (MT) often can save you money over exclusively human translation becau...
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Netflix is a trailblazer when it comes to pushing the quality of subtitles, dubbing and cl...
Localization Maturity Model or LMM assesses where your company stands in terms of matching...
A content management system (CMS) allows for the creation and modification of digital cont...
Brands want to adapt their content to another language for marketing campaigns overseas or...
Gamers have reconnected to their favorite digital habit in the wake of the pandemic. Even ...
Over the last several years, digital technology has made creating content not only more af...
Today’s businesses are looking to localize their brand, product and service content in reg...
E-learning plays an integral role in many organizations’ skills development programs. This...
Southeast Asia is undoubtedly home to a growing number of passionate gamers looking for su...
Gaming is a booming industry, increasing about 7 percent year-on-year for the past several...
The overlapping purposes of closed captions and subtitles have a direct bearing on the aud...
Translation management systems or TMS as they are better known, help streamline the work o...
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eLearning exploded in 2020, with 98 percent of companies employing some type of etraining....
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While globalization has made it easier than ever for companies to publish and sell interna...
Technology has come a long way since the days of box Apple computers and floppy discs. Wit...
By now you've heard us talk extensively about finding the right localization partner. Bein...
While it's undoubtedly true that closed captions can be an integral part of your video loc...
As anyone who has used a free translation program like Google Translate can tell you, lang...
In an age of internationally active organizations and rapidly growing multicultural commun...
Machine Translation and the use of Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Language ...
For those who may be unfamiliar, in its simplest form, desktop publishing (DTP) is the cre...
When thinking of expanding your media content to international markets, it’s easy to overl...
In order to reach a broader market these days, leveraging your online presence is a necess...
The need for translation and localization services is constantly growing, but with that na...
Starting a website can be a massive undertaking, and even after it's up, getting people to...
The coronavirus (COVID-19) has been spreading around the world for months, disrupting live...
There is often an extensive range of systems and processes that your Language Service Prov...
The evolving gaming industry is generating many opportunities for games localization profe...
The whole world of commercial consumers are stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic,...
Data is virtually everywhere and, as a species, we have been gathering and utilizing it fo...
The on-demand TV market has been growing aggressively over the past decade. As the Coronav...
When it comes to voiceover production, retakes can be caused by a wide range of different ...
High-quality game localization is a necessity for games to reach a wider international aud...
It's little wonder that video game usage has skyrocketed since the onset of the coronaviru...
The coronavirus has greatly impacted businesses around the world, leaving them reeling in ...
There’s been a lot of buzz about Indian languages and their localization lately. Pretty mu...
The global onset of the coronavirus and the start of the quarantine in early 2020 naturall...
Introduction The mystifying world of video game creation has a very significant but broadl...
Andovar is proud to announce the recent opening of a new localization engineering office i...
Marketing video localization is every bit an art as it is a science - meaning that you'll ...
Conclusion So we've now reached the final chapter of our comprehensive games localization ...
Part 10: Localization Markets The global games localization market contains many avenues f...
Part 9: Quality Assurance Various quality tests to catch and correct issues, as well as to...
Part 8: Challenges Game localization is a highly complex project. There's research, planni...
Part 7: Best Practices Succeeding in the current global gaming market means successfully m...
Part 5: Internationalization To succeed in an international market, a game product must be...
Part 4: Culturalization Across the 190+ countries of the world there are over 7 billion pe...
Part 3: Translation Converting a game's text and dialogue from the language in which it wa...
Part 2: Localization The bulk of game localization involves translating, culturalizing and...
Introduction The mystifying world of video game creation has a very significant but broadl...
The process of developing eLearning courses was once a much more complex undertaking than ...
In the world of medicine, the term "triage" is defined as "the assignment of degrees of ur...
As the global marketplace connects in ways that were impossible for previous business gene...
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One of the most important realizations that you can have as someone who creates video cont...
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So, you’ve decided that localization is a good idea to reach more gamers and make more sal...
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Translation Memory eXchange (TMX) is an open XML-based standard for exchanging translation...
Translation memory is a database for storing translated content in aligned pairs of source...
Terminology management is a set of activities that ensures correct terms are used consiste...
Term Base eXchange (TBX) is an open standard for exchanging structured terminological data...
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Alignment of translation means matching segments of text with their translated renditions....
We’ve got a whole new look – and some exciting changes to share too! As well as updating o...
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When you have decided it is time for your company to go global, ensuring an all-encompassi...
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When companies enter the global market, they face many challenges due to language, culture...
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Videos in digital marketing are the most persuasive tool to engage consumers and can attra...
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In a recent survey conducted by USForex, 72% of small businesses have plans to grow their ...
Global village--probably not the term you might use to describe our world twenty years ago...
Ready to move into global markets only to realize that your website is chock-full of conte...
The internet is fast dominating the world as the go-to platform for information, products,...
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International business practices are constantly evolving, and with over 7,000 known langua...
Every business begins at home with a known market and target audience. Localizing your web...
Video content, especially in today’s digital age, is one of the most effective ways compan...
Use Localization to Optimize Your eLearning Content With the rise of the internet, the wor...
It all comes down to trust. When people rely on banks to provide a safe haven for their mo...
The travel industry is based on the anticipation of needs; where your company’s success is...
AV localization is the process of customizing audiovisual content for a specific market by...
In 1967, Marshall McLuhan stated that “‘time has ceased, ‘space’ has vanished. We now live...
Websites are an efficient way to appeal to and connect with our audiences. However, as our...
Imagine that you’ve been swept up and deposited smack bang in the middle of a foreign coun...
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eLearning is a term that you see all over the internet these days. It was first coined dur...
Today, gaming is more than a hobby, it is an integral part of the millennial lifestyle. Fr...
On Thursday, December 20th, a senior official of the ruling Communist Party’s Propaganda d...
Skillsoft is the world's leading corporate learning company, with the largest library of c...
Who doesn't know Chinese takeaway food? It's available and well-loved throughout the world...
Andovar is one of the leading eLearning localization providers in the world with over 10 y...
Three years ago, I became Andovar’s VP of Marketing after several years as a Business Deve...
It all started with a very long trip with a stopover in Paris, France, the love capital of...
Yes, we are 10 years old! When Irishman Conor Bracken registered Andovar Pte. Ltd. with Si...
[On Nov 2nd 2016, Thailand's tech industry news outlet Techsauce interviewed Andovar's CEO...
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We are happy to announce a partnership between Andovar and the International Mobile Gaming...
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