In this episode, Janice Campbell, Senior Program Manager for the Machine Translation Program at Adobe, and Mikhail Vink, Global Marketing Programs Manager at JetBrains, talk about the importance of localization and the role of machine translation in it.

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00:00 Welcome to JetBrains Connect
01:42 Introductions
8:14 Background on localization
12:23 What machine translation is
16:24 Localization at JetBrains
21:30 Machine translation in localization
28:44 Quality issues
34:58 Should localizers fear for their jobs?
39:37 Machine translation’s impact on quality and jobs
46:03 Localization of the user journey
49:54 When should a company localize?
54:23 Going from global to local
56:15 Machine translation vs. human translation
1:03:58 The value of localization for threatened languages
1:06:58 Key takeaways from Mikhail and Janice


Janice Campbell:
https://twitter.com/_janicec
https://www.linkedin.com/in/janicelcampbell/

Member of the Board of Directors
Global Lives Project https://globallives.org/about/board/ (2018–present)
Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA) https://amtaweb.org/about-us/ (2018–present)
Machine Translation Use Cases at Global Content Summit 2019 https://blog.taus.net/redefining-translation-in-the-tech-hub-of-the-world

Mikhail Vink:
https://twitter.com/mikhail_vink
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikhailvink/

Paul Everitt:
https://twitter.com/paulweveritt
https://github.com/pauleveritt
https://www.linkedin.com/in/paeveritt/