AI dubbing startup, Papercup, just landed a two-year contract with Bloomberg Media — signaling that a broader swath of clients is growing more comfortable with synthetic voices.
Indian visual dubbing startup, NeuralGarage, raises USD 1.45m in seed funding to build R&D, engineering, and product teams.
Nations Translation Group acquires fellow Canadian LSP, Language Marketplace. Nations CEO, André Palaguine, on the deal and Canada’s billion-dollar language market.
French call center giant Teleperformance highlights steady development of interpreting specialist sub-unit, LanguageLine, in third quarter results.
Translation and interpreting demand at Japan’s largest LSP, Honyaku Center, now approaching pre-Covid figures. Slow recovery of in-person activities continues to impact sales.
LanguageLine, the language services sub-unit of French call center giant Teleperformance, purchases UK-based LSP Capita Translation and Interpreting (Capita TI) from Capita plc.
Zoo Digital’s financial results for half year to September 2022 reveals impact of heated competition among streaming giants — and how media localization plays into their strategy.
Sydney-listed language service provider, Straker Translations, announces extension of IBM contract. Market reacts favorably.
AMN Language Services, formerly interpreting provider Stratus Video, reports solid growth in AMN Healthcare’s Q3 FY22 results.
Interpreter collapses during Senate hearing in Canada after “sudden moment of loud feedback”; taken to hospital as hearing continues. Translation Bureau to investigate.
Straker posts revenue growth of 19% driven by acquisitions but slowed by macro environment. Bags new United Nations contract as it continues to integrate Idest.
London-listed Super Agency, RWS, publishes trading update for FY 2022. Key highlights from filing and how markets reacted.
Here are the most salient, language-related highlights from Netflix’s third quarter earnings report and interview.
Interpreter unions at the European Parliament end their strike — at least until the end of 2022; warn that work could still stop if agreed-upon guidelines are not met.
Summa Linguae acquires fellow Poland-based LSP, Get It. Looks to build out capacity via more M&A, not only in localization but also NLP, data-for-AI, now main source of revenue.
At Google Cloud Next ’22, CEO Sundar Pichai unveils Translation Hub, Google’s document translation service that translates content while preserving document formats.
Google draws curtain on Stadia gaming platform. Game developers react.
At Search On 22, Google announced that users will be able to perform English searches of non-English news starting early 2023.
After a series of acquisitions, Welocalize had to bring people together from different locations and cultures. Here’s how they achieved record people engagement at scale.
SeproTec’s Global Director for Interpreting talks about managing a big, complex, public-sector contract; responds to recent pushback.
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