Deepdub Launches Voice Artist Royalty Program for AI-Enabled Dubbing
Multimedia localization company Deepdub launches a program to allow voice over artists to receive royalties every time their voice is used in an AI-enabled project.
Rocío Txabarriaga
Senior Research Analyst and Editor. Multilingual, multicultural, and passionate about language technology and neurolinguistics. Based in Málaga, Spain.
How the BBC Evaluates the Use of AI in Dubbing and Captioning
BBC Studios’ Vanessa Lecomte discusses testing AI for long-form captioning and dubbing, the results, and the need for an expert-in-the-loop to meet quality standards.
How AstraZeneca Brought Home Over 1 Billion Words in Scattered Translation Memories
Christos Makropoulos walked SlatorCon Remote November 2023 attendees through the process of translation centralization at AstraZeneca, including 1.2 billion words in TMs.
More than Automation: Localization Becomes a Rich Experience with BWX
Bureau Works’ CEO Gabriel Fairman walks SlatorCon Remote Nov. 2023 attendees through the rich experience of the BWX platform, with AI as a partner to the user.
Paris Spends EUR 2 Million on Speech-to-Speech Translation App for 2024 Olympics
Paris partners with accessibility developer Ava to create a EUR 2m speech-to-speech translation app expected to help metro agents handle communications during the Olympics.
Slator Pro Guide: Solution Sales for Language Service Providers
The 44-page Slator Pro Guide gives salespeople the tools and insight to drive localization services revenue growth.
Should You Watermark AI-Generated Content?
Readers offer their take on how business conversations have changed, AI vs intellectual property rights and labeling of synthetic content, and ATA and CEATL on AI.
The Surprising Reason Why Europe Denied Google’s Machine Translation Patent
After years of appeals, the EPO has definitively rejected Google’s patent application for neural machine translation, arguing that improvements to the process are not technical or an inventive step.
‘Machines Are not Translators’ — Europe’s Literary Translators Push Back on AI
The European Council of Literary Translators’ Associations (CEATL) joins other organizations demanding EU legislators reconsider regulations around generative AI.
Number of Non-English Speaking Households Continues to Rise in the United States
The October 2023 US Census data release shows an increase in the number of non-English speaking households across all languages as linguists’ roles shift.
Media Localization Breathes Sigh of Relief as Hollywood Strikes End
The Hollywood writers and actors strike is over. AI protections are in place as dubbing and subtitling work is set to resume soon; ZOO Digital’s shares up 30% on news.
The World’s Biggest Companies Are Trying to Crack ‘Speech Translation’
Amid a deluge of research into speech translation, many of the world’s leading technology companies are teaming up with academia to accelerate progress in this challenging field of language AI.
Sweden’s Svensk Medietext Appoints Lars Thorsell as New CEO
Svensk Medietext, a Swedish multimedia localization and accessibility company, has appointed company senior executive Lars Thorsell as its new CEO.
‘Full Post-Editing’ is Facing Resistance
Spotify offers AI voice translation; in-person conferences are back but many are still staying put; translators will still be translators, and “full post-editing” is translation.
Microsoft Says the ComSL Model Outperforms Other Models in Speech Translation
Microsoft researchers report improved results for the composite ComSL model in speech-to-text translation, surpassing the performance of Whisper and mBart.
Japan’s Hospitals Need More Professional Medical Interpreters
Researchers in Japan surveyed low- to no-Japanese-speaking foreigners who required medical care and found that institutions are not fulfilling their medical interpreting needs.
How Welocalize’s Darin Goble Sees AI and Large Language Models Reshape Innovation
Welocalize’s Darin Goble examines how digital transformation powered by AI and large language models is changing communication and content, and urges companies to innovate.
This Hong Kong University Is Seeking a Dean for the School of Translation and Foreign Languages
The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong (HSUHK) is seeking a new Dean for its School of Translation and Foreign Languages. The appointment is for a three to four year term.
Key Takeaways SlatorCon Zurich 2023
The mood was optimistic at SlatorCon Zurich 2023 with speakers making the case for why now is a crucial time for the language industry to position itself as the expert in language AI.
Translation Has A Viral Moment
ChatGPT delivers inconsistent translation quality; raw MT invades ranked content in Google Search, and translation has a viral moment as creators experiment with lip-sync solutions.
How SignBank+ Improves Multilingual Sign-to-Spoken Language Machine Translation
Sign-to-spoken language machine translation research using a purpose-built dataset and an intermediate notation system reveals improvements in multilingual target text outputs.
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