Globalization Insider

Making Money with Machine Translation

Every Cash Cow Starts Out as a Calf!

Monika Röthlisberger, Group Manager Language Technologies, CLS Communication

Several of our customers told us, “Our people keep sending confidential texts out to free machine translation systems on the internet. This is clearly a security issue; we must offer them a secure alternative. I don’t want to see any more of our documents on unidentified web servers. Do something about it!” If a customer actively asks for such a service, there must be some money in it, we thought, and that’s how our machine translation (MT) adventure began at CLS Communication.

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