Microsoft and Amazon Announce Similar New Machine Translation Features a Day Apart
Microsoft and Amazon make similar new machine translation feature announcements within a day of each other, both intended for enterprise users.
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Will Amazon’s New Distribution Unit Drive Prime Video Localization Demand?
To compete with other streaming services, Amazon has announced it will license its library of 4,000 films and 17,000 TV show episodes to foreign TV networks and other platforms.
A Realistic Dataset for Evaluating Gender Bias in Machine Translation by Amazon
Amazon releases MT-GenEval, a realistic dataset for evaluating gender bias in machine translation, to better understand how MT models perform on gender translation accuracy.
Everyone’s Talking About ChatGPT, DeepL Crowned Unicorn
Generative AI hype, DeepL confirms unicorn round, translation scam activity in 2022, the best and worst performing listed LSPs, and Amazon’s study on human dubbing.
Working Around Machine Translation’s Need for Large-Scale Training Data
Unlike some fields in machine learning, machine translation still requires large sets of training data. The solution? Creating more data when none (or not enough) exists.
Large Amazon Study on Human Dubbing Has ‘Surprising’ Implications for AI Dubbing
Amazon reviewed hundreds of hours of Prime content and found that human dubbers prioritize translation quality and speech naturalness over timing and lip sync.
Amazon Quantifies Impact of Machine Translation Quality on Multilingual Searches
Multilingual e-commerce searches introduce shoppers to new products; researchers identify language pairs with most to gain from launching or improving machine translation.
Converting Any Pre-Trained MT Metric Into a Document-Level Metric — An Amazon Study
Researchers from Amazon present a simple procedure for extending pretrained machine translation evaluation metrics to the document level.
Amazon Unveils Long-Term Goal in Natural Language Processing
Amazon presents three ways it hopes to extend current natural language processing R&D beyond just a small subset of the world's 7,000+ languages.
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.
Is Subtitling Really a ‘Dying Art’?
As a leading tech site reports on the ‘dying art of subtitling,’ we unpack why it is anything but — and how LSPs, investors, and streaming giants are focused on subtitling like never before.
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.)
Reader Polls: Dubbing Today vs. the ’90s; State Use of MT for Talking to Citizens
We asked your opinions on English dubbing, MT research findings, post-editing TM versus MT output, and Google Translate.
Netflix Brings Mobile Gaming to Europe and New Series to Twitch
As competition with other streaming services heats up, Netflix rolls out limited selection of Android games to maintain subscriber interest. Game localizers should take note.
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