Monthly Archives: February 2010

Episode 6: Free and Open Source Software for Translators

In our sixth episode of Speaking of Translation, we discuss how translators can benefit from free and open source software. We discuss why you should care about free and open source software, how it can help you as a translator and specific FOSS programs you may be interested in using in your practice.

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[Note: We had a request from a listener to make it so that each file can be directly downloaded (right click/download as file); however, I can't seem to get this to work through our MP3 host (libsyn.com) - if any of you have ideas how to fix this, please let us know! Thanks! Eve]

Duration: 25:03

Links mentioned in this episode:

The Free Software Foundation
OpenOffice.org: free and open source office suite
Linux for Translators discussion list
Linux for Translators website
OmegaT: free and open source translation memory tool
OmegaT users group
Sage plugin: a feed reader for Firefox

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