Translation productivity startup Lilt raises USD 9.5m in a series A funding round from Silicon Valley heavyweight Sequoia Capital as neural machine translation puts language industry back on VC radar.
Translators may soon encounter more math beyond word counts in their work, with machine technology, fuzzy match algorithms, and segment length becoming increasingly significant. Per-word rates just might be at end of life.
AI language services and tech agency, Lilt, raises USD 55m in series C funding led by Four Rivers, with new investors Sorenson Capital, Clear Ventures, and Wipro Ventures.
A clear majority of Slator poll participants think it is not OK for freelancers to subcontract without telling their clients. Bank transfers are still the dominant method of paying freelancers.
Industry behemoth SDL accuses startup Lilt of interfering with sales of SDL products by violating three US patents granted its 2010 acquisition, Language Weaver. Lilt counters that SDL’s claims have no merit; vows to defend themselves vigorously.
Lilt Labs evaluates machine translation (MT) systems from Google, Microsoft, SDL, SYSTRAN, as well as Lilt's own MT; publishes findings.
Lilt, an interactive, adaptive machine translation platform, has announced the launch of a University Program, which allows academic institutions to get free access to Lilt for their students and professors.
Lilt - the tech startup where humans and machines meet to tear down language barriers - has announced the launch of labs.lilt.com. Lilt Labs is a collaborative effort between computational linguists, scientists and language professionals designed to address a growing and painful problem in the language space.
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