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Ravi Shah
 
neilmac
neilmac
Шпанија
Local time: 08:40
шпански на англиски
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Other Oct 10, 2019

Some Spanish universities have been chopping and changing their billing systems over the past year or two. It can be quite confusing and exasperating if they keep moving the goalposts, or if one university insists on some things while another one requires others.
 
Muriel Vasconcellos (X)
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Соединети Американски Држави
Local time: 23:40
шпански на англиски
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Two of the above Oct 10, 2019

One of my main clients very recently updated their portal for handling translations. Among other features, you no longer need to submit an invoice. Once you click on a button saying that you "accept" the job and the terms offered, payment is triggered by delivery of the job. While I like this automatic feature, the payment has been a little slower, at least in the jobs I've done since it was introduced. They used to pay within 5 days, and since the change I've been seeing 10 days to 2 weeks. (Of... See more
One of my main clients very recently updated their portal for handling translations. Among other features, you no longer need to submit an invoice. Once you click on a button saying that you "accept" the job and the terms offered, payment is triggered by delivery of the job. While I like this automatic feature, the payment has been a little slower, at least in the jobs I've done since it was introduced. They used to pay within 5 days, and since the change I've been seeing 10 days to 2 weeks. (Of course, the delay could be due to other factors.)

They are also promising to introduce a "neural" machine translation system before the end of the year, but that hasn't happened yet.

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Yetta Jensen Bogarde
 
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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Португалија
Local time: 07:40
Член (2007)
англиски на португалски
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No changes here! Oct 10, 2019

Though one of the agencies I used to work very regularly in transcreation lost their account because their client started using machine translation that will be post-edited by their in-house team.
 
Tina Vonhof (X)
Tina Vonhof (X)
Канада
Local time: 00:40
холандски на англиски
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Two or more Oct 10, 2019

Several clients have started using a new translation management system and/or changed their payment practices. None of it for the better I might add.
 
Mario Freitas
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Бразил
Local time: 03:40
англиски на португалски
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Poorly devised question Oct 12, 2019

This question requires selecting more than one choice among the answers. Since the system does not allow it, it's not answerable.
 


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