Just 1.4% of large language model PaLM’s natural language exposure is “unintentional consumption” of bilingual signals — which seems to be enough to contribute to the model’s translation abilities.
Meta says its new system, which offers text-to-speech and speech-to-text for more than 1,100 languages, has half the word error rate of Whisper. Critics say, Apples and oranges.
With advances in tech driving down costs and demand skyrocketing, language service providers increasingly offer transcription and captioning. Who are their biggest competitors?
The Department of Homeland Security prepares to open RFP for translation, interpreting, and transcription in almost 300 languages for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Zapier now allows users to transcribe and translate audio from 98 languages into English text. Developers experiment with song lyric extraction and subtitle creation.
Translators, transcriptionists, and interpreters to work mainly with Criminal Division, and others, such as the FBI, as needed. Use of CAT tools, but not machine translation, encouraged.
Initially launched in a few select countries, Google has plans for its “creative, helpful collaborator” to support — and translate between — 40 languages, up from the current three.
While former Amazon and Meta employees seek new jobs and support, Chinese video platform TikTok deepens its e-commerce push into Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Thailand.
To compete with other streaming services, Amazon has announced it will license its library of 4,000 films and 17,000 TV show episodes to foreign TV networks and other platforms.
Subject to “guardrails” and innovative watermarks, available only to authorized partners, to prevent misuse; the system delivers speech-to-speech translation with lip matching.
As ZOO Digital expands its presence in Iberia, AM Group, a partner to ZOO Digital since 2021, will manage facilities in Madrid and Valencia, including a school for voice talent.
The appointment of Harrison Tucker, whose financial management experience includes work at HealthSmart and FedEx, comes on the heels of Akorbi’s strong finish to 2022.
A September 2022 change in European Commission guidelines allowed self-employed professionals to engage in collective bargaining; some translators can expect additional payments.
Since its launch in 2009, Microsoft’s multilingual online dictionary has become a “go-to” resource for IT translation; translators doubt the long-term usefulness of legacy terminology.
An Oregon Task Force comprising representatives from language service providers including LanguageLine, Boostlingo, and AMN successfully advocated against the bill.
In addition to offering clients real-time English-French translation, Calgary, Alberta-headquartered TheNewswire will use GPT-4 tech to generate headlines for social media.
Super Agency Lionbridge picks third-party technology Phrase for computer-assisted translation (CAT) tool functionality, citing analytics, translation memory as winning features.
To compete with other international business centers, Germany considers allowing high-value disputes to take place in English, with rulings translated and published in German.
Following a February 2023 letter, a March 2023 amendment incorporates ATA’s suggestion. Bill to establish web-based platform scheduling and payment platform still under consideration.
New research identifies ideal temperature, prompts to bridge gap between conversation and translation; authors warn of ChatGPT’s “hallucinations” in non-English pairs.
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