Honyaku Shares Fall Despite Record Full-Year Revenues
Japan’s Honyaku Center grows top and bottom line for the third year in a row as revenues reach USD 109.5m and operating income registers at USD 8.2m for the fiscal year 2019. Continue reading
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Machine Translation Largely MIA at Google I/O and Microsoft Build 2019
Google I/O and Microsoft Build 2019 were short on big language tech reveals, although relevant announcements and previews were sprinkled throughout both events. Continue reading
Researchers Run User Study on MT Post-Editing’s Most Promising Alternative
Researchers led by machine translation pioneer Philipp Koehn examine how interactive translation prediction compares to MT post-editing when powered by neural instead of statistical MT. Continue reading
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Inside Translation, Localization, and NLP on GitHub, the World’s #1 Code Sharing Site
Over two dozen charts and tables and high-level visualizations as well as analysis of GitHub code repositories relevant to the language industry. Continue reading
At F8: Facebook Says It Now Has a ‘Powerful Tool to Think About Language Problems in a Language Agnostic Way’
Natural language processing and neural MT feature heavily as Facebook discusses developments in artificial intelligence at their developer conference F8 2019. Continue reading
Terminology Assistance Coming to a Simultaneous Interpreter Near You
Real-time terminology assistance for simultaneous interpreters may be well on its way — but will it be truly useful in typical high-stakes environments? Continue reading
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The State of Neural Machine Translation for Asian Languages
Asian languages present unique challenges for NMT researchers, and a key to unlock emerging economies for providers. How far along is NMT for Asian languages? Continue reading
Behold, the Translatotron! Google’s Latest Move in Speech Translation
Google researchers approach speech-to-speech translation a little differently in a proof-of-concept that completely takes away reference text, but underperforms compared to existing models. Continue reading
Automated Transcription Provider Trint Secures USD 4.5m in Series A
AI-based transcription provider Trint has increased its total funding raised to USD 7.8m, with the unique twist of adding NMT into its platform to allow multilingual content distribution. Continue reading
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Video Games Are Moving to a Netflix Model and It Will Impact Localization
With Google Stadia, Microsoft’s xCloud, and Apple Arcade bursting into the cloud-based game streaming scene, how will game localization be affected? Continue reading
EU Earmarks Additional Millions To Automate Translation
Before awarding nearly USD 5m in grants toward the end of February 2019, the EU opened up another one worth almost USD 4.5m. Continue reading
Google Translate Shortcut Goes Viral, Lures Newbie App Localizers
How a simple language-learning shortcut using Google Translate went viral and inspired newbie app localizers to try a DIY approach to localization. Continue reading
Born After 2016: Meet 8 New Entrants to the Language Industry
Meet 8 of the newest companies in the language services market — inspired by everything from passion projects to going after emerging economies. Continue reading
Jargon Raises USD 1.8m Seed Round for Voice App Content Platform
Jargon raises USD 1.8m for voice app content management and localization with support from the Amazon Alexa Fund and other investors. Continue reading
EU Awards USD 4.8m in Neural MT Grants for Low-Resource Languages
EU’s CEF grants 5 project proposals for the implementation, data collection, and integration of NMT for low-resource languages, a total of EUR 4.3m in funds. Continue reading
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