November 2017 - Affordable Language Services

Google Translate Still Too Risky for Health Care

Posted on November 9, 2017 at 10:32 pm.

There has been some recent debate (perhaps controversy!) about the alleged dubious quality of the Spanish version of the Obamacare (Affordable Care Act) website, healthcare.gov (see CNN and Washington Post). Some are arguing that in creating the Spanish version of the site, authors must have employed a service such as Google Translate to have ended up […]

The Dangers of Automated Translation

Posted on November 1, 2017 at 1:56 pm.

Written by ALS Staff

There is no doubt that tech firms have made great strides in automated language translation in the last decade. Advances in processing power, algorithms, and voice recognition are now providing almost seamless communication between humans and machine, yet human-to-human communication using a machine interface is still fraught with difficulties and dangers. Website Disclaimers To […]