Microsoft and Amazon Announce Similar New Machine Translation Features a Day Apart
Microsoft and Amazon make similar new machine translation feature announcements within a day of each other, both intended for enterprise users.
Microsoft and Amazon make similar new machine translation feature announcements within a day of each other, both intended for enterprise users.
Speakers at the ATA MT and AI virtual conference coincided in a message urging attendees to embrace the changes AI brings to the way translators and interpreters work.
US-based media localization provider Visual Data acquires EVA Localisation, a year after its initial strategic investment in the France-based dubbing and accessibility provider.
Slator launches new AI feature, Google’s Bard is super cautious on translation, K-pop star uses Youtube’s multi-audio track, and M&A in media localization.
With advances in tech driving down costs and demand skyrocketing, language service providers increasingly offer transcription and captioning. Who are their biggest competitors?
The 140-page flagship Slator 2023 Language Industry Market Report features comprehensive market-size and buyer-segment analyses, sales and marketing insights, language tech, and more.
MotionPoint appoints new CFO, CIO, Head of Technology Enablement, and Senior VP of Sales.
The VSI Group has completed the first phase of renovations for its Mexico City-based facility with planned expansions to increase the studio footprint and offer clients expanded dubbing capacity throughout 2023 and beyond.
Argos Multilingual is proud to announce that it has achieved a Silver-level sustainability rating from EcoVadis.
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.
Slator’s 2023 Language Industry Market Report features analysis of company names in the language industry, unveiling top terms, trends, themes, and a preference for full transparency.
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.
In Sweden, media localization provider Firstlight Media merges with tech company June to form JuneFirst, a year and a half after June’s holding company acquired Firstlight.
Japan-listed LSP Honyaku Center reported revenue growth of 5.9% to almost USD 80m in FY2023, as demand for translation and interpreting offset declines in other divisions.
Research shows that incorporating preparatory steps and self-generated knowledge into the translation process of LLMs enables them to emulate human translation strategies.
The IU hybrid approach to translation takes the speed and efficiency of Machine Translation, powered by AI, and combines it with the expertise of human translators.
A Slator survey looks at the extent of LLM adoption by language service providers, and asks — what are generative AI’s most promising applications?
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.
The Department of Homeland Security prepares to open RFP for translation, interpreting, and transcription in almost 300 languages for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Researchers from John Hopkins University explore the role of domain and local coherence in in-context machine translation revealing improvements in quality.
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