August 2018 became the busiest month ever for neural machine translation research as more papers call for improved evaluation methods and big tech companies step up the number of submissions. Continue reading
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It has been a busy summer 2018 for the US legal and healthcare interpretation industry with President Trump’s immigration policy boosting demand for rarer languages, states building out language services for voters, and local governments pushing back on interpreter pay demands. Continue reading
Slator readers give their opinion on public sector demand for language services and technology, the impact of startups on the industry in the next three years, the highest potential growth regions, and how neural machine translation should be evaluated. Continue reading
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Microsoft’s “human parity” claims drew skepticism from a team of neural machine translation researchers as they found that much of the research and industry community is looking at the problem from the wrong angle. Continue reading
Walmart-backed Indian ecommerce giant Flipkart is going head to head with Amazon Alexa with its voice-powered ecommerce interface. Its newest acquisition of speech recognition startup Liv.ai is expected to power a conversational shopping experience in several vernacular Indian languages. Continue reading
US Army awards Raytheon Technologies and AppTek USD 2.99m and USD 1.55m respectively to provide machine translation software, support, and engineering services for one of the US government’s automated foreign language translation projects. Continue reading
Inc’s list of the 5,000 fastest growing private companies in the US is out for 2018. Six language service providers could not hold on to their spots in 2017 and were replaced by six other companies this year. Continue reading
How many translation startups are still active? How many have shut down? Where are they located and what are the common startup ideas? Here’s a look at the translation startup ecosystem in the language services market according to AngelList. Continue reading
Revenue of profits up strongly at Japan’s largest language service provider, Honyaku Center, as acquired Media Research Inc. is consolidated for the first time. Continue reading
Research submissions on neural machine translations ballooned from 91 in the first half of 2017 to 196 in the first half of 2018, although by July 2018 submissions were slowing down. Continue reading
As India’s local-language internet is expanding quickly, private and public sector leaders are calling for “barrier-free communication” and language-related startups are getting media attention and funding. Continue reading
Google launches a new service called AutoML Translation in beta that lets users upload translated language pairs to train machine translation engines. Continue reading
Activity was high among language service provider executives in the first half of 2018 as boardrooms and executive teams were reshuffled. Here are our top 10 picks from January to June 2018. Continue reading
In Slator’s June 2018 newsletter polls, we explored reader input on Exfluency’s ICO succeeding or not, their work-life balance outlook, whether the language technology they are using works for them, and where they go to look for work. Continue reading
Language plays a ubiquitous role across India’s top ten digital trends, according to consulting firm KPMG. The rising numbers of Indian language internet users expect more and more vernacular content. Continue reading
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