The Translation Company Talk Show is a B2B podcast show that covers issues and opportunities for the language translation industry. We touch on everything related to translation, and related services including interpreting, transcription and localization. Topics that are regularly covered include business and management of a translation company, sales and marketing, crisis management, staffing, technology and trends within the translation industry. This show is geared towards translation com ...
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The Translation Company Talk podcast brings you another exciting episode. Shamus Sayed, Vice President of IU breaks down the complexity of RFPs and how LSPs can leverage this procurement tool to acquire government and enterprise level business. Shamus is a visionary and industry leader and has extensive experience in delivering large scale linguist…
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S05E08: Interpreting Services for Law Firms
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Welcome to another episode of the Translation Company Talk podcast. In this episode we hear from Linda R. Zamora, President & CEO of Iberican Language Services, Inc. about how LSPs deliver interpreting services for law firms. She is speaking about her experience in the State of California. We cover a variety of topics in this conversation, includin…
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S05E07: Localization for the Canadian Market
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Translation Company Talk podcast brings you another exciting and interesting interview. We hear from Manon Debuire from Lightspeed about the unique and diverse localization market in Canada and what it means for companies that plan to set up shop or start localization in this market. Among many interesting things, she covers the Canadian market lin…
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S05E06: Applying Localization Audit Insights for Enhanced Enterprise Strategies
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The Translation Company Talk podcast brings you another exciting and interesting interview. Today we hear from Teresa Toronjo from Malt about how the results of an enterprise localization audit can be applied to improve process, resources and the results of localization efforts. This conversation is the second part of Teresa’s talk on localization …
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S05E05: Vamos Juntos - The LSP Conference
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The Translation Company Talk brings you another exciting interview about the translation and localization industry. Today we hear from Charles Campbell, CEO of TBO, about Vamos Juntos. This highly anticipated LSP conference and retreat, in beautiful Lima is the topic of our discussion today. Charles talks about the Juntos organization as an umbrell…
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The Translation Company Talk brings you another exciting and fun conversation. Today we hear from Marina Ilari from Terra Translations about video game localization. She is a linguist, entrepreneur and, naturally, a gamer. She is very opinionated about how video games should be localized and offers some deep insights about this fun part of our indu…
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S05E03: Effective MLV Supply Chain Management
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The Translation Company Talk podcast brings you another exciting episode. Today we hear from Beatriz Rodriguez Corbelle from RWS about effective vendor management in LSP organizations. As a seasoned industry veteran and leaders, she speaks candidly about her own experience in the vendor management business function and offers some really good advic…
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S05E02: Customer Engagement through Localization
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In this episode of the Translation Company Talk podcast, we hear from Simon Mitton from TravelPerk about how localization impacts customer engagement. A season industry veteran, Simon speaks about his experience in the industry and how it has evolved with evolution of technology. Among other subjects we discuss how enterprises deliver a good custom…
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Welcome to another exciting episode of the Translation Company Talk podcast. We hear from Linda I. Saucedo from Publicis Sapient about medical content translation, which is a highly regulated and specialized sector of language services delivery for our industry. Medical translation is different from standard language translation because people’s li…
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The Translation Company Talk podcast is pleased to bring you another exciting episode, with our guest Teresa Toronjo from Malt. Teresa is an expert localization manager with deep experience in developing structure around localization activities in enterprises. She talks about enterprise localization audits, sharing both her experiences and tips rel…
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SO4E11: Career Paths for Localization Professionals
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Translation Company Talk podcast brings you an exciting interview with Paula Hunter, who has great experience in enterprise localization and beyond. She is here to discuss localization career paths. Localization is a powerful field which enables people working in this industry to learn so many skills and build knowledge about diverse areas of busin…
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S04E10: Business Acumen for LSP Leadership
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The Translation Company Talk podcast brings you another exciting interview. Today we hear from Shamus Sayed about the importance of business acumen for leadership of language service provider companies. A business is only successful if its leader has a vision to grow and that can be developed and translated into actionable targets once the leader k…
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S04E09: Agile Localization Framework for the Modern Enterprise
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Translation Company Talk podcast brings you another exciting interview with Adelina Cristovao. We hear from her about agile localization practices for the modern enterprise. Online platforms that offer services such as food delivery, ride-sharing, and other task-based services constantly have to keep content fresh and up to date in order to keep th…
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S04E08: Language Access in the United States
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Translation Company Talk podcast brings you an exciting interview with Carol Velandia. We hear from her about language access for minority and under-served communities. It is the most fundamental challenge and the reason for the existence of the translation and interpreting services. Carol talks about how language access creates challenges for dive…
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S04E07: Outlook for Localization Industry in 2023
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Translation Company Talk podcast brings you another insightful interview with guest Florian Faes from Slator. In today's episode we are going to talk about the outlook for localization industry this year. The language industry is a growing and evolving services sector and oftentimes ignored. Our industry helps other industries manage and mitigate r…
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S04E06: Social Media & Influencer Marketing for LSPs
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Translation Company Talk podcast brings you an exciting interview with Javier Diaz Fernandez Carvajal. We hear from him about social media and influencer marketing for LSPs. Language services companies are highly active on social media and digital channels, but we will learn what works and how to capitalize and monetize on these platforms. No compa…
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S04E05: The Unique Canadian Language Services Market
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Translation Company Talk podcast brings you another exciting interview with an industry leader. In today's episode we discuss something that we haven't touched upon before. We are going to speak with Mary Kazamias, Chief Executive Officer of TRSB, about the unique nature of language services market in Canada. Mary offers her insights and knowledge …
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S04E04: Macro-Economic Trends & The Business Case for Enterprise Localization
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Translation Company Talk podcast brings you another exciting interview. In today's episode hear from John Fennelly, CEO of Lionbridge, about macro-economic trends and the business case for localization, in particular how current macro-economic trends dictate that enterprises can leverage globalization in new markets to remain competitive and profit…
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S04E03: Effective Enterprise Localization Sales
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Translation Company Talk podcast brings you another exciting interview with our guest, Kristin Gutierrez. In today's episode we cover effective enterprise-level localization sales. Unlike a transactional sale, a B2B long-term based business relationship is complex and takes a lot of experience and expertise to develop. Kristin talks about how sales…
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S04E02: LSP Opportunities in South America & the Caribbean
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Welcome to our latest episode of the Translation Company Talk podcast. Today we are going to take an in-depth look at the South American and Caribbean language services market. To talk about this important topic, we have invited Charles Campbell, president of the Translation Back Office. Charles discusses issues related to basic challenges faced by…
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S04E01: German Enterprise Localization Sector
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Happy International Women's Day 2023! Translation Company Talk podcast brings you another insightful interview. Today our guest is Adelina Cristovao. In today's episode we talk about localization in the Enterprise Sector in Germany. Over the past century Germany has driven localization to new levels due to its unique language, culture and geography…
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S03E24: Translation Pricing and Pricing Models
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Happy New Year! Translation Company Talk presents your new year’s gift in the form of a masterclass by Jessica Rathke from FluentSales on setting prices and reviewing the pricing models for translation services. If you are an executive in an LSP who is constantly trying to justify prices and increasing costs, competition, and other price related ch…
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Translation Company Talk podcast brings you another exciting interview with Stephen Lank. In today's episode we are going to talk about mentorship in the localization industry. The translation and localization industry has evolved and grown both in size and in scope. New people constantly join this industry either as first career or have somehow en…
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S03E22: Managing Enterprise Localization Vendors at Scale
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Translation Company Talk podcast brings you another exciting interview, and today we meet with Wayne Bourland. We talk to him about managing localization vendors at scale. This topic is of particular interest for enterprises that must manage localization vendors in to become more efficient. It is also an important glimpse into the enterprise buyer …
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S03E21: Speech as a Revenue Stream for LSPs
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Translation Company Talk podcast brings you another exciting interview with Renato Beninatto. We hear from him about what the proliferation of speech and audio means for our industry. This topic is of interest because our industry is undergoing rapid shifts. We must be ready to rise to the challenge, and now is the time to think about it. Renato ta…
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S03E20: Building Trust with Language Translation
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The Translation Company Talk is back with another exciting episode and this time we cover an important topic. Translation involves transfer of meaning and context from one language to one or more languages and as such our clients place great trust in our services. Trust is always assumed in translation services and in this episode we cover how we c…
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Another exciting episode of the Translation Company Talk podcast brings you an interview with Natalie Ayers, Director of Marketing at United Language Group. She talks about leading marketing efforts in an outcomes-focused language services company. LSPs have traditionally marketed in silos and didn’t have a coherent and structured approach to getti…
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S03E18: Enterprise Localization Efficiency
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Translation Company Talk podcast brings you another exciting interview with Carrie Livermore Fischer. We hear from her about efficiency in localization with technology at the enterprise level. This topic is of particular interest for localization managers in organizations that are scaling up but also need to become more efficient. Carrie talks abou…
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S03E17: Translation Services for US Healthcare Insurance Market
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In this episode of the Translation Company Talk, we talk about healthcare insurance translation business. Luis Miguel Musi, the CEO of Avantpage, takes a deep dive into this topic and talks about every aspect of providing language services for the healthcare insurance sector. For LSPs that plan to offer healthcare insurance translation services and…
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We are back with another exciting and very interesting episode of The Translation Company Talk podcast. In this episode, we hear from Thomas Edwards about LSP Sales Team Structure. He is a veteran sales guru in our industry with decades of experience on both the supply and buyer side, this is a masterclass in sales that LSP executives and leadershi…
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S03E15: Standards and Certification for Language Service Provider Companies
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The Translation Company Talk is back with another exciting episode. We hear from Leigh Turgut, Director of Quality and Compliance at CQ fluency Inc. about standards and certification in the translation and localization industry. While our companies continue to deliver exceptional translation and language services, compliance with standards and gett…
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S03E14: HR Best Practices for Language Service Provider Companies
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We are back with another episode of the Translation Company Talk podcast. In this episode we hear from Diego Crescerie, founder and CEO of Creative Words, who talks about HR best practices for language service provider companies. Among the many subjects covered in this episode, Diego talks about the dynamics of HR practices between different countr…
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S03E13:Translation Services for the Life Sciences Sector
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Welcome to another episode of the Translation Company Talk podcast. In this episode we talk about providing translation services for life sciences, clinical trials and medical research. Our guest is Duncan Shaw, president of DTS Language Services which specializes in this field. Duncan covers a broad range of subjects in the translation of clinical…
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S02E12: Leading a Translation Company in Volatile Economic Conditions
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We are here with a new episode of the Translation Company Talk. Today we sit down with Renato Beninatto from Nimdzi Research and Multilingual Magazine to cover how inflation and other socio-economic forces impact the translation and localization industry at both macro and micro levels. This is one of the most important and time sensitive conversati…
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S03E11: Performance Improvement for Language Service Companies
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Welcome to another episode of the Translation Company Talk Podcast. This week we cover performance improvement inside LSPs and how our organizations can develop focus, get better at things that matter to business owners and executives and to reduce waste. This interview is a master class in management and a must for every LSP executive. To cover th…
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S0E310: Automation Across LSP Business Functions
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Welcome to another episode of the Translation Company Talk podcast. Today we hear from John Moran, General Manager of Transpiral Ltd. in Ireland. We covered the topic of automation for language services companies that enable business internally and for customer touchpoints. Among the many subjects we that we cover, we talk about the state of automa…
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S03E09: Customer Centricity Enterprise Language Service Delivery
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Translation Company Talk brings you another exciting episode with an important personality in the translation and localization industry. Christophe Djaouani from Toppan Digital Language talks about customer centricity and the importance placing the customer in the heart of everything within a language services organization. We cover many topics abo…
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S03E08: Digital Transformation of the Language Industry
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Here we are with another exciting, and highly engaging episode of the Translation Company Talk podcast. In this episode we cover the topic of Innovation in Language Services. Smith Yewell, the CEO of Welocalize talks about what innovation means and how lead an organization with an innovative mindset. With a rapidly changing language dynamic, opport…
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S03E07: Effective Machine Translation Strategy
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We are back with another exciting episode of the Translation Company Talk podcast. This episode is all about machine translation and how this technology has become a common place in our industry, yet many people don’t know much about it. To find out about the state of machine translation, we have invited Kristin Gutierrez from United Language Group…
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S03E06: Leading and Managing A Multi-Region LSP
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In this episode of the Translation Company Talk podcast, we discuss LSP leadership in a transborder and multinational context. Tea Dietterich, CEO of 2M Language Services in Australia talks about her experience as an entrepreneur who started her LSP with a laptop from her bedroom which has scaled up to a multinational across 3 continents in multipl…
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S03E05: Outcomes-Based Language Solutions Delivery
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In this episode of the Translation Company Talk, we are very excited to be discussing a topic of great interest that receives very little coverage and attention in the translation industry. Nic McMahon joins us to talk about how language solutions companies create value and define it in a way that their customers understand and relate to it. He div…
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S03E04: Building Out Enterprise Localization Teams
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Translation Company Talk brings you another exciting interview. This time we sit down with Paula Hunter, who manages the translation and technical documentation teams at Motorola Solutions, Avigilon division, in Vancouver, Canada. She will speak about establishing and building enterprise localization departments. Among the topics covered, we discus…
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S03E03: Global-Ready-First Enterprise Strategy
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In this episode of the Translation Company Talk, we hear from Talia Baruch about Global-Ready-First Product Strategy. Talia shares her “global-ready” and “geo-fit” frameworks for maximizing adoption in new markets at scale. She talks about Localization as a strategic, cross-functional horizontal effort that requires close alignment on MVP priority …
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S03E02: Effective Translation Vendor Management
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In this episode of Translation Company Talk we hear from Carla Itzkowich, President of International Contact Inc., about effective translation vendor management. This is a special episode because Carla is joined by Norma Armon, her business partner and her mother and they take a deep dive into the history of translation services in California and h…
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In our first episode of 2022 season, we discuss eLearning localization with Kristin Gutierrez from United Language Group. While the pandemic has highlighted the need for remote learning across all areas of education, Kristin covers eLearning from a corporate perspective and discusses how it has evolved over the years. From developing an eLearning l…
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S02E21: Principles and Benefits of Quality Management Systems for LSCs
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In this episode of the Translation Company Talk we sit down with Leigh Turgut, Quality & Compliance Manager from CQ fluency and she talks to us about the principles and benefits of a Quality Management System, the different definitions of Quality within a language translation company. Quality is something we all promise our clients and clients natu…
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S02E20: The State of Legal Interpreting Sector
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Translation Company Talk podcast is back with another exciting episode covering the state of legal interpreting sector. The language industry has seen a roll coster effect across all lines of business, but interpreting and in particular the legal sector has seen changes that has affected both service providing companies as well as interpreters. COV…
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S02E19: Automation for Translation Companies
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Welcome to another episode of the Translation Company Talk podcast. After a brief break, the podcast is back with lots of interesting and valuable interviews with visionaries and leaders in our industry. In this episode we will be exploring the subject of automation beyond machine translation for companies providing language services. Our guest is …
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S02E18: Navigating the World of Regulated Industries for LSPs
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The localization industry serves clients in numerous other industries. While some are relaxed in their requirements, there are other industries that have very stringent and unique requirements. In this episode, we hear from Alexandra Jarvis, Chief Strategy Officer at Toppan Digital Language about what it means for a language services company to off…
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S02E17: Business Acumen for LSP Leadership
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Starting a business is very hard, but the actual challenge is in managing and growing it beyond the point of plateau that most businesses reach after the initial demand wanes. As the owner and executive of a language company, it becomes imperative to possess the right knowledge and tools to direct your organization including its people, processes a…
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