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SAN JOSE - 1/28/04 - Business translation services company Textminded Inc. has opened an office in San Jose "to be closer to its customers in the hi-tech industry."

The new San Jose office is the Mons, Belgium-headquartered company's first foray into a specific international market. 

According to Emmanuelle Delchambre, Textminded's chief operating officer and manager of the new office, the company is "a complete resource" for global businesses and corporations seeking technical, legal, and intra-company document translation, as well as software and website localization.

The company has particular expertise in a number of languages including Chinese; Czech; Danish; Dutch; English; French; Finnish; German; Greek; Italian; Japanese; Korean; Norwegian; Polish; Portuguese; Russian; Spanish; Swedish; and Turkish.

"We can help any company make its products and services accessible throughout the world in every language," said Delchambre, a Belgian-native who speaks French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, and Hungarian, as well as English.

The actual "hands-on" translation work is actually carried out by 12 in-country native speakers at the company's headquarters, she said. "The work is always cross-checked by other linguists and each translation is proofread by translators with expertise in specific industries. Many of our translators use CAT [Computer Aided Translation] and TM [Translation Memory] tools to streamline the translation process and to enhance consistency throughout a client's documents."

Translation tools, said Delchambre, "are especially important if you are responsible for large projects carried out by a team of translators working on them simultaneously."

The company's current International client list includes Siemens, Dictaphone, Lexmark, IRIS, Scansource, Vodaphone, and Ferrari.

Textminded "works closely with its European translation services partners - English Ink, Leinhauser and Partners, and Translator Scandinavia AB, for example - to offer very competitive rates compared to other translation and localization companies," she said.

"We have an agreement with them to maximize the strength of the Euro and reduce their margins thanks to their in-house production. We make it possible for our clients to buy translation services for the European market at rates similar to those that were in effect when the Euro and the dollar had the same exchange rate."

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