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Why you need to love people to be a good translator – Mxolisi Mlondolozi Ngubane from South Africa

The language industry in Africa is full of untapped opportunities. Kabod has ventured on a journey of identifying, documenting and highlighting inspiring stories and innovative projects from entrepreneurs, researchers and freelancers in the translation, interpretation and natural language processing communities. The final goal is to celebrate African professionals in the language industry and facilitate knowledge …

The African Behind The World’s First Live Translation Earbud

Today, Artificial intelligence (AI) translation technologies have been the solution for many globetrotters to travel to any country even if they do not understand the language spoken there. Businesses are reaching diverse nationals with their services or products with the help of these technologies. AI translation tools are engineered to translate text/speech from one language …

6 ways to limit enslavement to foreign languages in Africa

Africa is a multilingual continent with diverse and numerous languages. According to the 2018 edition of the Ethnologue Global Dataset, we have 2143 living languages as well as over 8000 dialects in Africa, which is therefore the most linguistically endowed continent. Ngugi Wa Thiongo during a lecture in Johannesburg on Reviving African Languages iterated that …

African translators must upgrade their command of African languages – Mouhamed Diop from Senegal

The market is very big for African Languages Translators – Stephen Kwadwo Boateng from Ghana

African translators should market their skills and showcase their work – Wandile Nkambule from South Africa

A Machine Translation Software For African Languages By An African

Machine Translation (MT) is a computational linguistics and language engineering technique that uses software to translate text/speech from one language to another. This occurs by feeding a text to a computer algorithm that translates it automatically into another language. There is no human intervention in the translation process. The machine does the translation by simply …

5 Reasons Why Budding Translators Must Volunteer

People volunteer everywhere, every single day, in all domains. It is estimated that over 1 billion people volunteer worldwide. People volunteer for several reasons, but there is one overarching element for everyone — service. The beauty of volunteering is that it is a selfless act that brings joy and fulfilment. As a budding language professional, …

Africa will be the market for translation buyers globally – Alfred Mtawali

Understanding artificial languages and how to create one?

Athchomar chomakea everyone! Do not be shocked, these two words are from the Dothraki artificial language used to say “hello” to non-Dothraki people. I know for sure that no one is a Dothraki here. Are you? “taH pagh taHbe’. DaH mu’tlheghvam vIqelnIS”. This beautiful sentence is in Klingon language for Hamlet’s famous line, “To be …