Report shows top languages in U.S. after Spanish
Arabic, Mandarin and Vietnamese were the top spoken languages in the United States after Spanish between the first quarter of 2011 and the first quarter of 2012, reports standardspeaker.com. The article, which pulled data from Language Line Services’ quarterly Interpreter Demand Index, stated that businesses, local governments, court systems, emergency services and health care agencies [...]
LanguageTrak report shows Somali, Hmong among top requested languages in Minneapolis
The latest LanguageTrak report shows Spanish, Somali, Hmong, Vietnamese and Russian atop the list of over-the-phone interpretation requests in Minneapolis, according to an article in the Minnesota Star Tribune. The city is home to a distinctive array of immigrant and refugee communities, the article noted. The quarterly report, released by Language Line Services, analyzes over [...]
Interpretation services still trump speech recognition
Speech recognition technology has improved significantly in the past few years and there has been a lot of talk about its applications in contact centers. However, where the technology still fails is in recognizing those with even the slightest of accents. The convergence of a global marketplace and home markets populated with an increasing number of affluent and educated [...]
Language Line Services CEO: Marketing ‘in-language’ critical inside U.S., not just in other countries
When it comes to marketing and advertising in foreign languages, paying attention to nuance has always been imperative (case in point: the Ford Pinto not translating well in Brazil). While these concerns used to be limited to marketing in other countries, “Now they apply inside the United States as more than 60 million people — [...]
Language Line Services steps up to meet need as interpretation demand soars
The foreign-born population in the United States has quadrupled over the past four decades, and more than 175 languages and dialects are spoken across the country today. As a result, demand for foreign-language interpreters is increasing, and Monterey, Calif.-based Language Line Services is stepping up to help meet that need, according to a recent Bloomberg [...]
Language Line Services Launches ‘Language Access Center For Excellence’ as healthcare resource
One of the speakers: Martin Conroy, former Director of the Division of Acute & Primary Care Services with the New York State Department of Health Language Line Services, the worldwide market leader in interpretation and translation services, today launched its Language Access Center for Excellence. The Center will offer experts to speak on key issues [...]
