Meta Releases Large Dataset for Multilingual Speech-to-Speech Translation
Meta has released SpeechMatrix, a large-scale mined corpus of multilingual speech-to-speech translations.
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Meta Reveals How ‘Toxic’ Machine Translation Can Be
Researchers from Meta suggest training-data curation as a means to reduce added toxicity in machine translation. Toxicity categories include profanity, insults, hate speech, bullying, etc.
Research on Speech-to-Speech Translation is Booming
In just three months, universities and tech companies released over two dozen papers on speech-to-speech translation (S2ST), highlighting continuing trends, new directions in research.
‘Most important AI Model in the Last Decade’ — Meet Large Language Model BLOOM
Open-sourcing large language models is catching on among tech giants, such as Google and Meta. Now comes BLOOM, whose 1,000 contributors designed it with multilingualism in mind.
Meta Claims ‘Breakthrough’ in Machine Translation for Low-Resource Languages
The new model, praised by Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is already being used to improve more than 25 billion translations daily on Facebook, Instagram, and other apps.
Slator 2022 Language Industry M&A and Funding Report
44-pages on 2022 translation and localization industry acquisitions and translation startup investments, with valuations, deal rationale.
Meta Doubles Down on Direct Speech-to-Speech Translation
Meta eliminates text generation in speech to speech translation; shares code and research with the public.
Large Language Models May Leak Personal Data, Studies Show
Large pretrained language models (PLMs) memorize lots of personal data. Researchers examine data privacy risks associated with PLMs, propose solutions.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
Camera Always On? How the Language Industry Manages Remote Work
While translators have long been able to work outside the traditional office, what do language service providers think about trading their remote work setups for virtual workplaces?
More Than Hype: Meta Reveals Two-Pronged Machine Translation Roadmap
Part of the billions of dollars going into the Metaverse will undoubtedly go into these two areas of machine translation. Meta AI reveals its MT roadmap and the people working on it.
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.
Translation and Remote Work Platform Viva Translate Closes USD 4m Seed Round
100,000 Spanish-speaking workers in IT, design, data entry, and more on waitlist to use Viva Translate machine translation to communicate with potential US employers.
Look Who’s Hiring Localization Professionals for the Metaverse
In virtual reality, physical borders may be less of an issue than language barriers. As Meta hypes its Metaverse, language managers work behind the scenes to localize the space.
Meta Unveils Supercomputer to Power Translation in the Metaverse
Meta shoots for completing world’s fastest supercomputer by mid-2022. Here’s what it can do in terms of natural language processing and translation — and what the facility looks like today.
The 10 Most Popular Language Industry Stories of 2021
After an extraordinary year, our look back on 2021 — from Big Tech to big buys, machine translation to translators’ job prospects — shows the language industry is thriving.
Linguists Wanted! 10 Language Jobs Big Tech Is Hiring For Right Now
Curating datasets, reviewing user-generated content, and liaising with locals — all in a day’s work for a linguist hired by big tech. (No computer science degree or published research required.)
Facebook (You Know, Meta) CTO Hypes WMT 2021 Win as ‘Truly Groundbreaking’
To be fair, this is the first-ever multilingual model to win the international machine translation contest. But major tech companies have been exploring multilingual models for years.
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