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Why You Shouldn’t Use Google Translate for your Multilingual Website
Machine translation (MT) is just that—a machine (software) that translates content. For the most basic machine translation service, such as Google Translate, a human isn’t involved in the translation. Machine translation is good for some types of content such as...
Healthcare Organizations: Increase Member Engagement During Open Enrollment by Providing Language Support
By Avantpage Open Enrollment for healthcare will soon be upon us, starting November 1, 2021, for 2022. Healthcare organizations have a big opportunity during this time to increase their membership in the Limited English Proficiency (LEP) population....
2020 Census Insights on Language Use in the U.S.
By Avantpage Our founding fathers wrote in the Constitution of the United States, Article 1, Section 2 that the U.S. must have a decennial census to count every person in the country and provide that information to the U.S. The census data is used to determine the...
Best Practices for Planning Multilingual Events and Interpreting
By Avantpage Whether you’re hosting a large multilingual online event or a smaller in-person meeting, you’ll want to give your audience the best possible experience. Providing professional human interpreters to interpret live while the speaker presents can break down...
Key Translation Takeaways from the California Recall Election
By Avantpage The translation process for election materials can be challenging due to short turnaround times and pressure to complete the work. We understand, because as a language service provider (LSP), we’ve been there. For example, we recently translated the...
Language Services in Our Schools
By Avantpage School districts have very specific language service needs to support their Limited English Proficient (LEP) families. As a language service provider (LSP) with a mission to connect people linguistically, we’ve worked with several school districts to...