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.
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In Podcasts & Videos you find episodes of SlatorPod, the weekly language industry podcast, as well as a range of video interviews and analysis of what’s driving the global translation and localization industry.
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Leading the World’s Largest Interpreting Service With Genoveva Ruiz Calavera
Genoveva Ruiz Calavera reflects back on her first year as EC's Director-General for Interpretation, from transitioning out of the pandemic to facilitating the EU’s support of Ukraine.
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.
Dispatch From GALA San Diego 2022
Dispatch from GALA San Diego and a quick roundup of news; including RWS shares jumping after Baring considers takeover bid, and ZOO Digital beating guidance for FY 2022.
Amazon’s Professional Translators, Transifex, Seprotec, BIG
Netflix ramps up gaming as shares fall; Amazon scales from 8 to 51 languages. In M&A, BIG acquires Lawlinguists, SeproTec buys tsd, and Transifex sells to PARC Partners.
Slator 2022 Language Industry Market Report
100-page flagship report on market size, buyer-segments, competitive landscape, sales and marketing insights, language tech and more.
BUY NOWScaling Website Localization with Weglot CEO Augustin Prot
Weglot CEO, Augustin Prot, talks about the fast-growing web localization space and plans to expand globally with support from investment firm Partech Growth.
Boostlingo CEO Bryan Forrester on Fundraising, M&A, Scaling Interpreting Tech
Boostlingo CEO, Bryan Forrester, joins SlatorPod to talk about building a unified interpreting platform and growing remote interpreting services through M&A.
Translation and Localization Industry Grows 11.8% in 2021 to USD 26.6bn
Exclusive data and insights from Slator’s 2022 Language Industry Market Report; US language space heats up as Lilt and Jeenie announce multimillion-dollar funding rounds.
A New Way to Post-Edit MT and News on RWS, Weglot, DeepL, Boostlingo, Acolad
After a packed news segment featuring RWS, Weglot, DeepL, Boostlingo, and Acolad, Nico Herbig and Josef van Genabith join the pod to discuss the future of post-editing machine translation.
Meta VP Iris Orriss Announces Shift from Community Translation to Single-Language Vendors
Meta’s VP of Internationalization, Iris Orriss, joins SlatorPod to talk about language operations at Meta, pioneering new localization approaches, and the future of the Metaverse.
Low Resource, High Potential — NeuralSpace CEO Felix Laumann on Democratizing NLP
NeuralSpace CEO, Felix Laumann, joins the pod to discuss how they overcome the lack of research, data, and tools when training NLP models in low-resource languages.
Automating Language Evaluation With Emmersion CEO Brigham Tomco
Emmersion CEO, Brigham Tomco, joins the pod to discuss founding a language edtech startup and how LSPs are using their AI adaptive assessment engine.
Ranking the World’s Largest Language Service Providers
Key highlights from Slator’s 2022 Language Service Provider Index, NeuralSpace’s USD 1.7m seed round, and Meta’s language and MT plans.
Healthcare Interpreting in the US and Beyond With Marco Assis
Propio CEO, Marco Assis, joins the pod to discuss interpreting services in healthcare, building language technology, teaming up with private equity, and expanding internationally.
Audio Localization in Video Games With Alessandra Vincenzi
Keywords’ Head of Audio Localization Alessandra Vincenzi joins SlatorPod to discuss mobile vs. Triple-A games, casting voice-acting talent, and integrating artificial voices.
The Machine Translation Literacy Project with Lynne Bowker
University of Ottawa’s Lynne Bowker joins the Pod to discuss the story behind the Machine Translation Literacy Project and how to use MT purposefully.
Björn Lifvergren on Subtitling, Dubbing, and Launching LinQ Media
LinQ Media Co-founder Björn Lifvergren, talks about the evolution of media localization, launching his new startup, and comments on Netflix’s latest localization stats.
The World of Japanese Game and Media Localization With Katrina Leonoudakis
Katrina Leonoudakis joins SlatorPod to discuss Japanese-to-English cultural context, machine translation in the workflow, and equivalent experience in the video game industry.
The Social Impact of Language Technology With Andrew Bredenkamp
CLEAR Tech CEO, Andrew Bredenkamp, joins SlatorPod to talk about CLEAR Global’s language-tech strategy and working with low-resource languages in over 80 countries.
Lokalise’s USD 50m Series B; 2021 Industry Highlights and 2022 Outlook
In the final episode of 2021, Florian, Esther, and Andrew share their thoughts on what happened at Slator in 2021 — and their outlook for the language industry in 2022.
Lionbridge CEO John Fennelly on the Language Industry’s Growth Trajectory
Lionbridge CEO, John Fennelly, joins SlatorPod to talk about leading the Super Agency through a strategic shift, managing at scale in a remote-first world, and executing a billion-dollar spin-off.
Smartling’s USD 160m Mega-Round, Avantpage CEO on Serving LEP Populations
Unpacking Smartling’s USD 160-million mega-round. Plus, Luis Miguel, CEO of Avantpage Translations, joins SlatorPod to talk about the LSP’s immigrant-driven mission.
The Creativity of Transcreation With Tag Collective Arts’ Rik Grant
Rik Grant, Transcreation Partner at Tag Collective Arts, joins SlatorPod to discuss localizing global campaigns, hiring diverse talent, and pricing transcreation.
Launching the Globalization Strategy Playbook With Natalia Levitina and Karen Combe
Natalia Levitina and Karen Combe join the Pod to discuss the most comprehensive open-source guide for internationalization and localization buyers, the Globalization Strategy Playbook.
Diego Cresceri on Pricing MT Post-Editing and Becoming President of Elia
Diego Cresceri, CEO of Creative Words, joins SlatorPod to discuss growing their LSP through marketing, the price pressure of PEMT, and becoming the President of Elia.
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