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How is the Translation business?

Statistics show that if any industry could be considered recession-proof, then interpreting and translation may be one, particularly with the increase of cross border trade and business. Indeed, in the US alone, a recent report projected a large growth in translation and interpreting between 2010 and 2020, much larger than average business growth.

The requirement for translation services does not yet appear to have been affected by free web-based translation programmes, of which there are many. Whilst automated translation can quickly summarise large amounts of text, thereby reducing costs and improving consistency, human translators and interpreters are still necessary to intelligently understand and proof read the resulting text.

The adoption of technology certainly assists translation companies but a merger of this technology with the fluency and experience of translators and interpreters is necessary to produce a consistent understanding of complicated texts.