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Diploma translation for credential evaluation follows strict rules on who translates, what is included, and what you send. Check the rules before you order.

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Google DeepMind just shipped the first sign language AI in a real consumer product. Google's own release notes say it shouldn't replace a qualified interpreter in high-stakes settings. That's worth taking seriously.

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Search interest in Article 50 quadrupled the week it became enforceable. Almost nobody writing about it has looked at what it means specifically for translated text.

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Some AI-drafted translations are approved in a single pass. Others go through several rounds of vendor work spread across days before they ship. We looked at a year of Tomedes' own AI-assisted (MTPE) projects, and the difference isn't random: it lines up closely with content type.

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A practical guide to what on-site interpretation costs, when it's worth paying more for over a remote option, and how booking actually works.

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Over the years we've gotten requests to translate the same document for different customers. Legal documents, mostly. Both parties to the same dispute, each sending us the same contract. This has probably happened to every language service provider at some point.

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A death certificate is one page. What depends on it rarely is. An estate can't be settled, a life insurance claim can't be paid, and a probate case can't move forward until the document is not only translated, but translated in a way the receiving institution will actually accept.

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I read a piece on X this week arguing there are only four ways to make money. Labor: you trade time for money. Capital: your money earns while you sleep. Arbitrage: you spot something priced wrong and close the gap. Insurance: you get paid to absorb risk other people can't sleep with. Everything else is a story on top.

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I wrote recently that DTP, desktop publishing, is becoming a bottleneck in translation work. Not always, but often enough to notice. I used decks and packaging as my example: the kind of client-facing document where layout is the first thing anyone sees, and where AI handles the resize reasonably well but not well enough for anything that goes out the door.

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We pulled a year of orders and split them two ways: our biggest repeat clients, the law firms and agencies placing ten or more orders a year, against everyone smaller than that.