Just seen a report that Scottish Parly chiefs have gone and outsourced a Gaelic Translation project to a company based in India – via a UK based company (!) – only to use locally sourced linguists (local to Scotland) for the job. This is despite Holyrood employing two in-house Gaelic speakers, of course, prompting the Sun to cover the story.

Applied Language Solutions founder and CEO, Gavin Wheeldon gave his reaction;

“Even we have an office in India, but you can source linguists from anywhere in the world. You would have thought a domestic company would have the capacity to finish such a job without farming it out.” He goes on to add..

Scotland, India: Very close ties

“With regards the cost, I would suggest this is an attempt just to get the business – so you might want to question the quality of a translation at that price. That said, there is quite a myth around the costs involved in translation in that it can actually be very cheap if you know how to find the right linguists – but you certainly don’t have to go halfway round the world to do it.”

Applied Language Solutions has over 14,000 in-country linguists. Amongst the 150 + languages they cover include the Irish, Scottish and Manx variants of Gaelic.

See the full story in The Sun