Make sense of the complex issues driving the language services market
Do recruiters approach language professionals? Do LSPs expect growth in 2019? Will California linguists win exemption from AB5? Could Unbabel have a major impact? Continue reading
Two Silicon Valley venture capitalists and a private equity investor discuss their rationale for investing in the language industry, weighing in on an industry undergoing a profound shift. Continue reading
Although automation makes the job of a vendor manager easier, investing in relationships is key to building trust within a team — and managing an LSP’s reputation among freelancers. Continue reading
Language Services Director Meredith Stegall explains how moving Parkland Hospital’s multilingual call center and interpreting operations in-house saved millions and created local jobs. Continue reading
Appen CEO, Mark Brayan, speaks at SlatorCon San Francisco 2019 on the expensive, complex, and crucial process of collecting language data for AI. Continue reading
CEO speaks at SlatorCon San Francisco 2019 on the principles that have made TransPerfect the language industry’s largest provider by revenue. Continue reading
NVIDIA Senior Deep Learning Engineer Chip Huyen details progress on MT challenges, including data requirements, sentence-length limitations, and imperfect quality evaluation techniques. Continue reading
Cloudflare’s Head of Globalization, Claire Tsai, shares the cybersecurity company’s strategy for expanding to different markets; cautions against getting caught up in “vanity metrics.” Continue reading
Is your employment status clear? Are payment terms longer now? Are single-vendor frameworks right for large-scale interpreting? Should startups get into localization technology? Continue reading
Will regulatory changes favor the language industry? What practical impact will NLP have on the market? Who uses RSI apps? Should LSPs pursue the language data market? Continue reading
How Netflix handles subtitling, grew subscriptions by adding languages, and why it stays out of China, for now. Continue reading
Is subject matter expertise gaining at the expense of source language proficiency? Has the future CAT yet to be invented? Will LSPs continue to delight investors? Continue reading
Should LSP go beyond loc? And how do language industry pros see their job prospects, what social network is best for loc news, and what’s their view on the interpretation market? Continue reading
Amazon encourages end-users to build their own voice translation app, while Xiaomi adds to the growing list of portable translators in the market. Continue reading
On-stage interview with John Fennelly: Lionbridge CEO on Gengo acquisition and the nascent global market for language data, computer visualization, and other AI services. Continue reading
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