Successful companies across the globe spend a huge part of their budgets building and expanding their brands: after all, it is their brands that communicate with customers which give them the confidence to make purchasing decisions. One mistake that some companies make when beginning to go global, is assuming that the brand they have built…
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Bedford Translations is growing
We have good news to share with you, Bedford Translations is now a part of TTC wetranslate Ltd. We chose to join forces with TTC wetranslate of Chelmsford, in order to take the quality of our services to the next level. They are an established, award winning agency, with a very similar structure to ours,…
Our new website
We hope you like this website that we’ve recently updated. The aim was to allow access to information more quickly, to make the whole site easier to read with shorter line lengths, and to ensure adaption to a variety of media from phones through to large PC screens. Just a word about the flashing visuals…
A professional translation service – at speed
A seventy-thousand word German insurance policy – required in UK English within one week. That was the recent demand from a corporate legal client. What’s more, the original document had been scanned in and the original wasn’t available. So first, one of our documentation experts used OCR to turn the document into editable copy. Then…
Translation into Danish? Really?
“All the Scandinavians speak English, don’t they?” Actually, no! One of our partners visits relatives in Copenhagen, Denmark frequently. Every morning he buys fresh rolls from the next-door bakery with aid of sign language because not a soul there speaks English. Likewise, with most of Copenhagen’s bus drivers. It’s true that far more Danes speak…
Cloud-based translation memory – our second anniversary
It’s only two years since we put our translation memories on the cloud – but what a change it’s been. Approximately 300 hundred new projects, 100 new or imported TMs, 50 new termbases – we could never have anticipated the extent or applicability of the system right across our client base. Over 60 of our…
Speaking your language
Our current US client writes in FrameMaker so that’s how we’re translating their manuals into Turkish and Lithuanian. The translation tools that we employ work directly on your favourite programs so the formats aren’t lost, in this case via the .MIF interchange format. Likewise, with InDesign, where we’ve produced several complex presentations, against the clock,…
A peek into the order book
Wisconsin USA is a long way from Bedford, England but it’s where a major client is headquartered, that commissioned two of the projects currently on our order book. We’re translating operating and maintenance manuals for heavy machinery in two languages with the accompanying software that runs the machines’ visual displays. A monthly newsletter is on…
