If you’re working in the language industry you will probably know that our tools are changing faster than you can say Terminology Extraction. And ever since genAI has burst into our everyday lives like a conference speaker with something to say, one thing has become clear: without training, you won’t survive as a freelancer!  Generative AI is not competition for language professionals. Much rather, it’s a superpower booster! It will help you structure background information i

Ok, let‘s be honest: we all have used DeepL once or twice in our everyday (business) lives. Interpreters and translators do, too (we have to do our research, don’t we?). DeepL is not new, and there were times when we were rather surprised at how natural and fluent the output seemed at first glance. Lately, however, we’ve noticed that AI translations are getting worse rather than better. There is an increased number of inconsistencies, it struggles with maintaining accurate gr

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It’s hard to believe, but I’ve been a freelancer for 10 years now. In June 2006 I started my own business. So much has happened since. I...

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