In our August 2011 newsletter we reported about our company’s involvement, through our President, Bill Graeper, in a national language industry effort to publish standards for language servicing companies (LSCs) with ASTM. We are happy to follow up to that news and share additional achievements that have occurred over the past year concerning these efforts. [...]
Many companies that rely on language service providers have both an invested interest, and a legal responsibility to make sure that their clients’ information is kept confidential. In a world where information is exchanged across the globe at lightening speed, we at CLI want to remind our clients that we take every precaution to protect [...]
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By Skyler Frink There are a lot of subtleties in language. Regions of every country have their own dialects, sentence structure is different for different languages and each dialect can have multiple types of slang. Raytheon BBN has been given the almost-impossible task of developing a device that can perform two-way speech-to-speech translations, among other [...]
The LEP Data Brief from the Migration Policy Institute contains information on the number, share, growth and linguistic diversity of limited English proficient individuals in the United States. This data is useful to any business or organization that is marketing and/or serving clients in the United States. In the day and age when we live [...]
COLUMBUS, Ind. (AP) — Elsa Miller looked at the 17-year-old boy, listened carefully as he explained in Spanish the chest pains he was experiencing and relayed his words in English to Dr. Dekui Zhang, who was examining the boy at Volunteers in Medicine. Miller, standing behind the seated doctor, also relayed to the boy questions [...]
CLI’s owner, Bill Graeper, is part of a national group effort in the language industry to create standards that will be adopted by the American Society for Testing of Materials (ASTM). ASTM is a national organization that sets product and service standards for virtually every industry. You can read about them online here. Bill is [...]
The classification of language professionals as independent contractors has become a hot debate topic in the language services industry. The primary reason for this is because there are competitors within the industry who follow a different business model from that of Certified Languages International, and these competitors have gone public claiming that the use of [...]
This week our CLI’s CEO, Kristin Quinlan and President, Bill Graeper, will be attending Interpret America’s 2nd Annual Summit on Interpreting this week. On Friday, June 17th, Mr. Graeper will be having an armchair debate with Louis Provenzano, the CEO of Language Line Services. They will be debating on employee workplace issues, specifically the classification [...]
June 17-18 Interpret America will be hosting the 2nd Annual Summit on Interpreting. The topic of the conference is “How professional identity and technology are driving the future in our field.” During the conference, CLI’s owner and President, Bill Graeper, will be debating with Louis Provenzano, the CEO of Language Line, on the hot topic [...]
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