With advances in tech driving down costs and demand skyrocketing, language service providers increasingly offer transcription and captioning. Who are their biggest competitors?
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Overview of key language industry events up to May 2023 covering funding, M&A, LLM events, AI launches, significant industry hires, and Slator releases.
Zapier now allows users to transcribe and translate audio from 98 languages into English text. Developers experiment with song lyric extraction and subtitle creation.
UC Berkeley’s Steven Piantadosi on the transformative impact of LLMs on our understanding of language and how it challenges Noam Chomsky’s theories.
Keeping it in the family: Viestarts Vidiņš takes over the CEO post at Ad Verbum after his sister steps down.
Translators, transcriptionists, and interpreters to work mainly with Criminal Division, and others, such as the FBI, as needed. Use of CAT tools, but not machine translation, encouraged.
Initially launched in a few select countries, Google has plans for its “creative, helpful collaborator” to support — and translate between — 40 languages, up from the current three.
While former Amazon and Meta employees seek new jobs and support, Chinese video platform TikTok deepens its e-commerce push into Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Thailand.
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