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Slator consultant and corporate communications professional who enjoys exploring Asian cities.
Here’s your take on Netflix’s non-English content, Apple hiring people for their voices in many languages, changing jobs in 2021, and machine-generated voices going mainstream. Continue reading
Super Agency TransPerfect grew revenues by 21% in Q1 2021 year-on-year as data-for-AI, gaming, media, and tech licensing boosted results. CEO Phil Shawe on plans to bring staff back to their offices. Continue reading
Korean machine translation startup, Bering Lab, closes seed round led by search engine giant, Naver; Bering CEO on their focus on legal and patent translation — and which sectors are next. Continue reading
Newly appointed Director-General of the DG SCIC on plans to improve conferencing tools, equipment at the European Commission; and reaching out to contract interpreters affected by the pandemic. Continue reading
Multilingual website tech company MotionPoint gets investment from private equity firm Lightview Capital. CEO Will Fleming shares post-deal growth plans. Continue reading
Team of Amazon researchers uses synthetically introduced errors to model a new way of identifying the over and under translation of human translated video subtitles. Continue reading
KUDO raises USD 21m in series A, bringing total funds raised for the multilingual video conferencing startup to USD 28m. CEO Fardad Zabetian on the three things they plan to invest in. Continue reading
Conference interpreters in Belgium see income cut in half due to Covid. Belgian linguist group CBTI-BKVT lobbies government to include interpreters in financial relief grants. Continue reading
Paris-based IP service provider, Questel, buys New-York based patent and life sciences specialist Morningside less than four years after Co-CEOs Tom Klein and Roland Lessard took over the LSP. Continue reading
We asked your opinions on the single biggest threat to top LSPs, multilingual dating at scale, client proximity, and business performance thus far in 2021. Continue reading
Language I/O raises USD 5m; CEO says funds will be used to hire more data scientists to expand machine translation platform beyond customer support. Continue reading
World’s most popular non-Big Tech machine translation provider, DeepL, adds 13 EU languages as visitor traffic continues to push global engagement ranking past other MT platforms. Continue reading
European Commission names 27 winners of Juvenes Translatores 2020–2021, who worked on translating ‘eyelids drooping,’ ‘scraped together,’ and other challenging bits from a diary entry from the future. Continue reading
Schreiber Translations names a Managing Director; Global Talk, a CFO; ISI Language Solutions, a Director of Business Development; and Local Concept, a Client Strategies Director. Continue reading
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