Systran Names Former Operations VP Vincent Godard as CEO
Vincent Godard returns to Systran to take on CEO role. Former CEO, Jean Senellart, to stay on as scientific adviser and board member. AI agency to grow global markets, expand in the cloud.
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Online Movement Pushes That Translators Be Named in Game Credits
Twitter Movement #TranslatorsInTheCredits pushes for translator’s names to be included in game credits as translators share frustrations over invisibility.
Meta Tries Making Human Evaluation of Machine Translation More Consistent
Social media giant Meta proposes new metric to enable more consistency in human evaluation of machine translation; addresses big challenge in translation QA for low-resource language pairs.
Welocalize CEO Smith Yewell on Scaling a Language Industry Super Agency
Welocalize CEO, Smith Yewell, joins SlatorPod to talk about the Super Agency’s transformation, expanding through private equity and M&A, and the future of NLP.
In Tech-Assisted Interpreting, the Tricky Problem of Non-English ‘Person Names’
New research shows that automatic speech recognition and speech translation systems also improve when training data includes multiple instances of a given name.
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Judge Voids Sale of Australian LSP ezispeak Citing Anti-Phoenixing Law
Melbourne-based language service provider, ezispeak, weighs options after Victoria Supreme Court voids its sale to Technologie Fluenti. Clients include Telstra and the New Zealand government.
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ICYMI: Meta Already Has Download-on-Demand Translation for Android and iOS
Among the many things cooking at Meta: downloadable language packs for Android and iOS users to enjoy download-on-demand translation.
Content Localizers Can Now Use Automatic Dubbing to Ease Spiraling Demand
Everything you need to know about automatic dubbing — the emerging technology that content localizers can now use to meet burgeoning demand amid a talent shortage.
Here Are the Coping Mechanisms Interpreters Need to Deal With Vicarious Trauma
Interpreters are vulnerable to vicarious trauma, burnout, secondary traumatic stress, and compassion fatigue from repeated exposure to traumatic information. Here are some ways to deal with it.
Baring Will Not Proceed With RWS Takeover Bid
Baring Private Equity Asia and RWS have confirmed that Baring does not intend to make a bid for UK-based RWS.
Research Explores How Interpreter Use Correlates With Patient Satisfaction
New study at outpatient otolaryngology clinic finds patients with limited English proficiency less satisfied with visits than English-speaking patients, regardless of interpreting mode.
I/O Conference Spurs Google Translate to Push Innovation Into Production
Ahead of annual I/O conference, Google launches into a flurry of activity halfway through May 2022: a translation gizmo unveiled, a Google Translate update, and a presentation that drew critics.
Jeenie CEO Kirsten Brecht Baker on Raising a Series A for Healthcare Interpreting
Jeenie CEO, Kirsten Brecht Baker, joins SlatorPod to talk about virtual interpreting in healthcare, partnering with growth equity, and their pivot to success.
Reader Polls: New Ways to Post-Edit Machine Translation
Could a mouse-less, keyboard-less future be in the cards for translators? Slator readers weigh in on this and other developments in language technology.
Meta ‘Open-Sources’ Its Latest Large Language Model
Meta AI wants to make large language models more accessible to researchers with the release of OPT-175B; advocates R&D transparency and a “research mindset.”
Localization Career Success: How to Adopt a Strategic Approach
No matter which stage of the localization journey you and your company are in, this e-book is full of tips on how to advance your localization career.
Language Access Improves Covid-19 Patient Outcomes at Massachusetts Hospital
Study of 10,000 Covid-19 patients shows limited English proficiency correlates with worse outcomes during first wave of pandemic; trend disrupted by more interpreting, translation.
In SEO, Google Says AI-Generated Content Is ‘Spam’
Google weighs in on how we should expect GPT-3-generated, multilingual content to figure in search rankings; explains why AI content violates its Webmaster Guidelines.
AMN Healthcare’s Language Services Revenue Up 20% in Q1 2022
Stratus Video parent company, AMN Healthcare, hits record highs for consolidated revenue (USD 1.55bn) and adjusted EBITDA (USD 258m); repurchases 2.3 million shares of stock.
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