Expedia’s Senior Director of Localization Julio Neves shares how the travel giant tackles 200m words annually, and how his team and their partners combine expertise, automation, and technology to beat complexity. Continue reading
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Come October 17, users can suggest translation corrections on their Windows 10 OS through the new Language Community app. The program has already opened for so called Windows Insiders. Continue reading
HubSpot Localization Manager Chris Englund on how they measure localization RoI, why they have translators visit their Dublin office, and how Transifex, Cloudwords, and memoQ are integrated into their localization workflow. Continue reading
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Shares in Sydney-based Appen continue to rally and are up more than 600% since 2015 IPO. Strong 1H 2017 earnings mostly driven by booming unit which trains machine learning products. Continue reading
Not even a solid performance in the core translation business was able to offset a near wipe-out in the conference services division, as revenues slid more than 6% to JPY 2.42bn (USD 22.1m) for the quarter. Continue reading
After raising an estimated RMB 45m (USD 6.7m) from Sogou Inc., translation corpus and technology vendor UTH is now purportedly valued at over RMB 600M. UTH Executive VP tells Slator funds will be invested into R&D activities and growth through acquisitions. Continue reading
INC’s list of the’ 5,000 fastest growing private companies in the US is out. And there are more than a dozen language service providers on it. Continue reading
Google Translate’s top 10 words commonly translated into English include many words of admiration and several days of the week. Results for most languages are consistent with Japanese being the outlier. Continue reading
Nintendo’s new localization process is set to make it easier to sell more localized Japanese games to Western gamers. But some are pushing back, arguing that the localization has gone too far. Continue reading
CEO says sales grew 30% to USD 15m at the Italian pay-as-you-go translation provider and developer of MateCat; company landed a spot in the European tech ranking Tech Tour Growth 50. Continue reading
Exclusive look behind the scenes at China’s most advanced Natural Language Processing program. What drives the technology that processes 100m daily translation requests and learn why Baidu predicts a machine translation breakthrough within the next 5 years. Continue reading
Google’s Jeff Dean tells MIT Technology Review that they have results “coming down the pipe” in integrating Deep Learning tech into Google Translate. Preliminary research by the tech giant shows improvement over current statistical machine translation models. Continue reading
Senior Program Manager Jan Nelson comments exclusively on first major release of Multilingual App Toolkit, which streamlines software localization for millions of Microsoft Visual Studio developers. Microsoft Translator included in Toolkit. Continue reading
Valve Software is facing a strike by a vocal group of crowdsourced fan translators for Spanish on its Steam Translation Server platform. Row highlights potential pitfalls of crowdsourcing model. Continue reading
Predictive typing, no more middlemen, visualized app translation, machine translation edited by the crowd, and more. What is shaping tomorrow’s language industry. And are the incumbents ready for what’s coming? Continue reading
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