Translation buyers

Translation buyers are joining TDA to:

Increase productivity – Storing language data in one place enables the translation industry to pool the collective investments of previous translations to improve productivity so that you can get more content and languages translated. See the news section.

Improve the comprehensibility and consistency of publications – As soon as your translations are loaded into the central database, translators everywhere are able to use TAUS Search to review the terminology you use in specific contexts. The more organizations from your industry that join, the more comparisons translators can draw on to ensure that your customers benefit from clear and consistent use of terminology.

Translate content that would otherwise never get translated – machine/instant translation tools trained using terms used for specific subjects have increased productivity by 50% and achieved levels of comprehensibility needed for customer support and community content without human intervention. Many sectors lack the collection of language data that is needed for providers of technology solutions to train such tools.

TDA provides the infrastructure needed to centrally host translation databases and the necessary connections with solution providers to enable the training and innovation that is required. This opens the door to translating content that would otherwise never be translated.

The Human Genome Project – Through a concerted and coordinated global effort, scientists completed the sequencing of all 3 billion base pairs that comprise the DNA in a human body in 2003. Exactly 50 years after James Watson and Francis Crick first described the double helix structure of DNA. Success was only made possible by the sharing of data/pieces of discovery that began in the 1990s and accelerated after agreement on the Bermuda Principles for data sharing in 1996. The Human Genome Project has already fueled the discovery of more than 1,800 disease genes and the affordable sequencing of an individual’s DNA for medical purposes is within sight.

TDA is offers the potential for the same level of discovery and impact - the potential to dramatically reduce the extent to which language is a barrier to communication. We invite you and your vendors to join TDA for the benefit of your business, your customers, commerce and society.