25 January 2016

MS style manual adopts 'voice'

'Voice' (aka 'tone') now appears to be part of the mainstream terminology in technical communication following its adoption by the Microsoft Manual of Style for technical communicators.

Key quote:
Microsoft style and voice: This chapter highlights the shift toward a lighter,
friendlier tone in Microsoft content, with succinct guidelines for writing in the
Microsoft voice.
It will be interesting to see how Microsoft's language service providers handle this if and when the manual is translated into other languages.

Elsewhere


ChatGPT, a drafting aid for translation by emulation

On 17 October 2011, I published the first of two posts summarising my general approach to the type of translation/adaptation services I was ...