Google Bard Refuses to Translate, Launching Slator Answers
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.
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Interpreters Unlimited Gives a Human Touch to AI and Machine Translation
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.
AI Dubbing Startup Deepdub Gets Certification from the Motion Pictures Association
AI-enabled dubbing company Deepdub gets certification from the Motion Picture Association’s Trusted Partner Network to work with pre-release movies and TV series.
Google Teases ‘Universal Translator’ for Dubbing at Developer Conference
Subject to “guardrails” and innovative watermarks, available only to authorized partners, to prevent misuse; the system delivers speech-to-speech translation with lip matching.
Can the Italian Government Really Stop ‘Anglomania’?
AI is changing jobs even if most are not ready to make a career change, government attempt to control language is unpopular, and GPT hype is not over, though some of us are over it.
Stanford Zeroes in on Machine Translation Gender Bias, Intento Data in Annual AI Report
Stanford’s annual report on AI takes a high-level look at the industry, calls out machine translation fairness, and quotes Intento data on commercially available systems.
Translating Success: How AI is Changing the Enterprise Landscape on 4/11/2023
On Tuesday, April 11, 2023 at 5pm CET, 8am PDT, Lilt will be hosting a virtual webinar, Translating Success: How AI is Changing the Enterprise Landscape.
Has Inflation Affected Translation Rates?
Testing Microsoft’s AI-fitted Bing, explaining AI-enabled jobs to friends and family, suitability of loc tools to integrate with AI advances, and inflation effect on rates.
Microsoft Says Large Language Models Show ‘Competitive Machine Translation Quality’
Researchers at Microsoft conduct experiments comparing large language model GPT to other MT systems. One GPT stands out with high-resource languages. None do with low-resource languages.
How Large Language Models Can Get Better at Machine Translation of Rare Words
Meta AI researchers experimented with dictionary data prompting on known LLMs in order to improve MT. Results look promising for rare words and domain transfer.
European Defense Fund Supports Project for AI-based Language Solutions
European Union supports a project for the development of AI-based language solutions for defense applications to enhance the use of AI in the defense sector.
EU’s DG CONNECT Awards EUR 8m Contract for Language Data Platform
EU’s DG CONNECT awards a EUR 8m contract to create a platform and marketplace for multilingual language data sharing and exchange.
LXT’s Phil Hall on the 2023 AI Boom, Covering 750 Languages, and ChatGPT
LXT Chief Growth Officer, Phil Hall, on covering 750 languages, emerging competitors, and why he agrees that data-for-AI companies are the shovel providers in a gold rush.
Smartling’s Bryan Murphy on How Translation Creates Growth as Budgets Become Tight
At SlatorCon Remote December 2022, Bryan Murphy, CEO of Smartling, talks about leveraging AI and automation to drive growth and reduce costs in the event of a recession.
Slator Pro Guide: Finding Growth in Adjacent Services
25-page Slator Pro Guide: Finding Growth in Adjacent Services for LSPs helps identify new opportunities for growth. Includes analysis of barriers to entry, synergies, and risks.
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