S05E01: Translation for Medical Industry

Welcome to another exciting episode of the Translation Company Talk podcast. We hear from Linda I. Saucedo from Publicis Sapient about medical content translation, which is a highly regulated and specialized sector of language services delivery for our industry. Medical translation is different from standard language translation because people’s lives and health are at stake, translators must possess the right knowledge, intuition and medical pedigree to effectively communicate content in this domain.

In this conversation, Linda talks about why medical content translation is a unique sub-discipline, medical translation resource availability, translator requirements, LSP qualifications, the process of medical translation, impact of medical translation on patients and care providers, standards for this area of translation, impact of generative AI on medical translation, and much more.

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This episode of the Translation Company Talk is sponsored by Hybrid Lynx.