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• User guides and manuals
• Product sheets and presentation materials
• Architectural or industrial production designs and blueprints with accompanying explanation letters
• Patents and related documentation
• All kinds of other technical documentation
• Organization charts, diagrams and tables
• Software UI and help files, applications and system diagrams

Depending on how you want to look at it, almost any kind of translation can be called technical translation these days. However, we want to distinguish it from the other broad fields of translation, as it can never hurt to have a precise focus. Although we do not distinguish between various types of translation areas pricewise, it is still important for everyone involved in the process to be on the "same page".

What are technical translations and how are they different from other types of translation?

While precise terminology, consistency and easy readability of the translated text are always important in translation, they are paramount in technical translations. We create project-specific translation memories and termbases for all technical translations to ensure consistency even when there are many translators working on the same file simultaneously. CAT-tools and well-managed translation memories are indispensable here, but of course they are useless without a good technical translator and a knowledgeable editor who is able to check not only the linguistic side, but also the contents of the text. With more complex projects, we also involve technical editors whose task it is to ensure that the contents of the text is conveyed accurately.

Terminological accuracy and consistency presented in a clear and concise manner is what the end-user of a technical translation expects rather than fancy style or memorable expressions. This also applies to GUI-s, help files and other software elements. While software localization is in many ways different from "regular" translation, everything said above about technical translations also applies to localization.

• TV, radio, print and outdoor advertising
• Banner ads, web campaigns
• Marketing and promotional materials
• Product sheets, descriptions
• Speeches, addresses and pitches
• Various other texts that require a creative approach from the translator

Marketing translations are the most creative part of our everyday translation work, often bordering on transcreation. Ideally, a marketing translation comes with a brief explaining the aim, the target audience and the intended results of the translated text. And it's definitely not just about knowing the right equivalent of every word in the target language - often the text of, for instance, an advertisement has to be "localized" thoroughly to have a similar effect on the target market. A marketing text can contain slang or wordplay, it may be a poem or a song, or may just defy verbatim rendering in another language. Although marketing translations may be a welcome change from the rigorous, sometimes monotonous term-chasing of long technical texts, they are definitely not easier for the translator, as they require a lot of creative effort. And there is sometimes a few rounds of back-and-forth feedback implementation, adjusting and redoing involved, which may be frustrating.

Marketing translations are not suitable for every translator. Our regular tests for every translator often also include a specifically marketing-oriented test job to determine the nature of the applicant's creativity. As a result, we know who are the best people for this kind of work and, as always, picking the right team for any job is an important part of our everyday work.

• Product sheets and other documentation of medicinal products
• Prescriptions, diagnoses, case histories
• Clinical trials, surveys and other medical research
• Regulatory materials, product compliance documentation
• Guides and manuals of healthcare and medical equipment
• Various product catalogues, lists and inventories of medical and healthcare products

While a professional background is always a plus for any translator, it is especially true about medical translations. A degree in medicine is a must for most medical translation projects, for translators as well as editors. As absolute accuracy is an unconditional requirement, medical translations often go through several rounds of back-translation by different translators, sometimes even different agencies to ensure objectivity and accuracy. This applies to pharmaceutical product sheets as well as clinical trial protocols, user manuals of various medical equipment, marketing authorizations and numerous other kinds of translations related to medicine or life sciences.

We have dedicated translation teams for medical translations made up of professional, experienced medical translators to tackle medical translation projects of almost any size. Blind cv-s and other reference materials are available on request.

• Court materials, rulings and transcripts
• Reports, overviews, various programmes and initiatives
• Procurement documents and tendering materials
• Various questionnaires and surveys
• EU and government materials
• Legislative texts

The first thing about legal translations is that the target text has to convey every detail and nuance of the source exactly. This may seem obvious, but can be quite a challenge, especially in the case of contracts or court proceedings where the stakes can be high. As legal terminology is complex in any language, a legal background, preferably a degree in law, is almost a must for a good translator or editor of legal texts.

Broadly defined, legal texts also include EU and Government materials, various reports and surveys etc. These are all texts where not only the factual content, but often also the style and even the grammatical structure have to be conveyed, placing legal translations somewhere between technical and marketing translations.