Additional Services at Translation Agencies
Technical translation is only one of the many types of services that translation agencies can provide clients. Aside from providing translation services, translation agencies may also provide clients with other services, such as editing, proofreading and layout design and consultation services regarding publications both online and in physical form. Translation services are generally grouped into the localization of software, the translation of websites, translation of medical-related texts, consultation, editing and translation of DTP or desktop published documents.
Editing projects may involve newspaper, journals, professional or formal communications, electronic books and other such publications. Proofreading projects may involve one or many groups of texts written in specific native language; these would be handled by specialist native speakers who have background in proofreading. Layout design on the other hand, would be handled also by specialists, depending on the material that would need the layouts. Typically, web sites would be handled by personnel that have backgrounds in web design and art in general. Consultations services may be provided to provide figures regarding translation and publication of works and other forms of texts.
The localization of software involves complex work that would be able to modify existing software or platforms for a specific set of peoples whom the software would be providing services. Localization would then involve a highly trained team of specialists that would make sure that each and every component of the software would be usable and understandable to the chosen market or audience. Localization would ensure the optimum use of software in a given locus especially if it came from a culturally disparate region of the world. Medical translation involves also the translation of texts from a specific field of the sciences that would require translators that would have had wide and expansive knowledge of the language used in this area.
General technical translation covers all the general categories of texts that arise from businesses; general technical translation would be usable to most clients. For desktop publishing, translation agencies would be able to provide translation and the necessary localization of the chosen material prior to actual publication. This would allow for the material to pas through the necessary phases of development that would assure that readers would have complete understanding of the material that has been translated into a particular target language. The key word here is preparation: the translation agencies would be able to sufficiently prepare the material.
