Here’s What Happened at the 21st ALC Annual Summit in Portland
Attendees returned to the organization’s hometown of Portland to discuss big-picture challenges, advocacy and policy needs, and professional development.
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Attendees returned to the organization’s hometown of Portland to discuss big-picture challenges, advocacy and policy needs, and professional development.
US Bureau of Labor Statistics 2022 Occupational Outlook Handbook updates figures on language professionals’ hourly and annual wages, plus estimates for future industry growth.
Spotify introduces Voice Translation feature with a bundle of Spanish-translated podcast episodes, potentially creating demand for expert-in-the-loop podcast localization.
Researchers from NVIDIA, Factored.ai, Talon Voice, and others open-source a properly licensed dataset of 1,780 hours of speech in 77 different languages, plus transcriptions.
Meta introduced SeamlessM4T after months of research and numerous expansive multilingual models. How does the “next big thing” fit into future projects, and the language industry?
As tech catches up with the growing demand of an increasingly international gaming market, voice actors object to overreaching contracts and potential manipulation of their work.
AcudocX plans to streamline its self-service translation portals for speed and accuracy. Translato.ai founder Kyle Corbitt, ex-Googler and a Y Combinator director, will serve as advisor.
Meta continues to pour resources into multimodal translation capabilities as it launches SeamlessM4T, capable of translating speech and text and trained on hundreds of thousands of hours of data.
Lachnit replaces Katja Schabert, who had been with Transline since 2015. He credits his “profound experience” in finance with winning over Transline shareholder Blue Cap.
New paper shows OpenAI’s generative model outperforms in English-Hindi translation, but requires more work in Kannada and Telugu; future research may compare Apple, Google.
Twenty-nine interpreters, all employees of the court, argue inordinately low pay and “dysfunction of Justice” for limited English proficiency New Yorkers violate the 14th Amendment.
Streaming giant Netflix bets on films and TV series produced outside the US to keep American audiences engaged; viewing hours of non-English series jumped 30% in seven weeks.
Led by Joint Effects, the round brings total raised to date to USD 22.4m; company plans to use funds to grow machine learning team and integrate generative AI tech into existing platform.
Federal Communications Commission’s proposal to expand language access is a good start, officials from 15 states say, but should include (human) translation into 25 languages.
Fresh off the acquisition of two game development studios and two digital marketing agencies, Irish game localizer Keywords Studios reports H1 2023 revenue growth but outlook disappoints.
The Fairwork Project releases its 2023 report ranking the labor practices of 15 digital work platforms; some, including data-for-AI leader Appen, adopt the report's recommendations.
As California courts struggle to retain qualified interpreters, union-backed AB 1032 could degrade quality standards, while AB 432 pitches an unnecessary new training program.
Localization tech platform Phrase plans to dedicate funds to AI-driven advancements, having rolled out a new machine translation engine in November 2022, and hints at an upcoming release.
Just two months after Bard’s limited release in May 2023, the large language model is now available in more than 40 languages —10x more than its original English, Japanese, and Korean.
Silicon Valley-headquartered startup expands client base from media to include government agencies, plans to work with human transcribers to improve speech-to-text tech.
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