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 Translating any type of document can be a challenge, but technical texts can be even more difficult. Documents such as instruction manuals, user guides, medical documents, court transcripts, or any type of technical or scientific text require not only an accurate translation of the language used but also an in-depth understanding of the terminology and some of the concepts involved. Whether you are about to hire a linguist to translate your documentation, or are a translator about to take on a technical text, it's important to understand the specific challenges these documents present. Conceptual understanding A translator working on any type of technical or s cientific text should have at least a basic understanding of the concept being discussed. This requires some background in the field or experience in translating work generated by professionals in the same industry. A linguist with experience in the medical field, for example, would be much more likely to have a basic unders...

 Google recently demoed their Assistant to make a phone call to help book a haircut appointment. When the conversation was being heard, the discussion sounded just like two people talking together, while in fact online there wasn't a live person, but an 'AI powered Assistant' that sounded pretty much like talking to a real person. Besides the "hmm" and "m-hmmm" that a live person would do when in a conversation, it ended up booking an appointment for the Customer who had called in. Like some, of its 'friends' Siri , Cortana, Alexa, Google Assistant can also be used to help support a particular business process. The only upgrade that it had was using its Duplex Technology capability and perform a task with the same sounding effort as a human being. Here the test was to check if Google Assistant could be used to perform different tasks, something like book an appointment at a salon or restaurant however for a business there are a lot of things th...