AZ World Translations Blog
Why Medical Translation Services Are Critical for Trust and Credibility
Your hospital may have the most qualified doctors, the most skilled healthcare staff, cutting-edge treatments, and exceptional patient services. But if all that expertise is not accessible to every patient — especially those with limited English proficiency — your...
My First Interpretation
More than 20 years ago, the Chilean Consul General in Vancouver asked me if I could interpret, and organize the interpreting team, for an APEC working group meeting which Chile was hosting that year and which would take place in Vancouver. I had done other conference...
Translating for the Mining Industry
When I began working in the mining industry in 1994, on the construction of the Zaldivar mine in Chile, the price of gold was below US$400 per ounce and copper was below $0.90 per pound. Today, gold is over US$3,200 per ounce and copper is over $4.60 per pound. You...
How are AI, Machine Translation & Neural Machine Translation different?
Artificial Intelligence Translation (AIT) - the big umbrella Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a field of computer science focused on making computers and machines “smart”— making them capable of learning, reasoning, and solving problems like humans. Artificial...
Misadventures Ordering Breakfast
Years ago, while working as an internal auditor for a large gold mining company, I was in Val d’Or, Quebec auditing two gold mines that my company had in the area. I was there with a colleague from Chile for two weeks; Pablo is Chilean and speaks both Spanish and...