The availability of online translation services such as Google Translate has not put a dent in the demand for human services.

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Mr McFarland notes that some people try to game the Turk, by using software scripts to download a translation assignment, pass it through an online translation service such as AltaVista's Babel Fish, and then offer it up as finished work.

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The importance of online video translation may not be apparent at first blush.

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The Google executive said online language translation was important because the company's philosophy was to provide access to "all the world's information".

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Here's how Franz Och, a distinguished research scientist at Google, sees the present state and future of machine translation online.

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While the market for translating online video in particular makes up a smaller unquantified subset of the larger industry that provides translation services in all contexts, consumption of online videos continues to increase rapidly. 181 million Americans watched 37 billion online videos in April 2012, according to web measurer comScore.

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IBMers periodically hold firmwide "Jams"--online brainstorming sessions on topics ranging from data centers to translation software.

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Udacity, a pioneer of free online education discussed in recent Crotty posts, yesterday announced a partnership with translation platform Amara to translate and subtitle more than 5, 000 of its course videos, according to an Amara press release.

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