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The US Department of State publishes a notice of intent to issue a blanket purchase agreement for language services provided by about 1,000 individual translators and interpreters.
The Council of the EU discusses the addition of Basque, Catalan, and Galician as official languages, and puts the matter on hold as Spain makes Catalan the priority.
Spotify introduces Voice Translation feature with a bundle of Spanish-translated podcast episodes, potentially creating demand for expert-in-the-loop podcast localization.
Spain begins using Basque, Catalan, and Galician as official languages along with Spanish in congress, a formal linguistic diversity reform to be debated during the first session.
Contradicting posted guidelines regarding the origin and quality of content that gets ranked in its search engine, Google is not penalizing creators for using straight AI or raw machine translation.
UK’s National Health Service (NHS) launches a giant language services tender worth a possible GBP 0.4bn over four years, of which +GBP 60m is reserved for remote interpreting.
The Spanish government has submitted a formal request to the Council of the EU to include Catalan, Basque, and Galician as official EU languages.
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.
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.
Concerns over use of AI cited as a sticking point in contract negotiations between producers and performers. Demand for localization sputters as work on TV shows, movies stalls.
The Belgian government opens a call for proposals due September 10, 2023, to award a comprehensive translation technology contract worth EUR 12.6m over four years.
English source texts are related to “general affairs,” functioning of EU bodies. Call for bids covers translation plus light and full post-editing of machine translation for 11 language pairs.
Indian Parliament’s plan for real-time two-way interpretation in 22 languages to promote language diversity and enhance convenience for Members of Parliament.
US Army asks small businesses to pitch technology to enable communication with “previously inaccessible populations”, speakers of low-resource Indo-Pacific languages.
Video conference platforms will have one year to improve live captioning, speech-to-text, and other accessibility features, according to FCC’s Report and Order.
EU’s Unitary Patent system and Unified Patent Court now in effect - English an official language and translation not mandatory. A decline in translation volumes is expected.
Inter-agency complaint, executive order prompt HHS to reexamine services for people with limited English proficiency, revive inactive Language Access Steering Committee.
University of California, Irvine finds only 40% of orgs track data on language service usage; less than half have a Language Access Coordinator. Limited budgets cited as hurdle.
EU Translation Center issues a tender for intellectual property translation valued at a total of EUR 18m - Maltese is the largest target language contract at EUR 2.1m
K-Pop star publishes music video in six languages using AI voice cloning. The move indicates broader adoption of YouTube’s early access multi-track audio.
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