Facebook’s video-on-demand service, Facebook Watch, is now available to users worldwide, one year after it launched in the US, as the social media tech giant ramps up video content capabilities on the platform. Continue reading
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Researchers analyzed the impact of introducing a Spanish machine translation system to eBay’s platform and found direct and positive causal links between machine translation adoption and economic activities. Continue reading
Walmart-backed Indian ecommerce giant Flipkart is going head to head with Amazon Alexa with its voice-powered ecommerce interface. Its newest acquisition of speech recognition startup Liv.ai is expected to power a conversational shopping experience in several vernacular Indian languages. Continue reading
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Research submissions on neural machine translations ballooned from 91 in the first half of 2017 to 196 in the first half of 2018, although by July 2018 submissions were slowing down. Continue reading
In its last set of results before consolidating Donnelley Language Solutions, SDL posts first half revenues of GBP 143.1m and adjusted EBITA of GBP 12m. CEO Hernandez sees the benefits of transformation finally beginning to make an impact. Continue reading
Google launches a new service called AutoML Translation in beta that lets users upload translated language pairs to train machine translation engines. Continue reading
UK-based language service provider thebigword hits double-digit growth two years running after winning MOJ contract, and appoints industry outsider Nihat Arkan as new CEO. Former CEO Larry Gould to pursue M&A and investment as Executive Chairman of the Board. Continue reading
The language industry is huge, worth around USD 40bn per year. Yet, unlike other industries of this size, there is no one single provider generating a billion US-Dollars in revenue. Here’s how it could be done. Continue reading
Some familiar names helped pushed May 2018 to the top of the charts in terms of neural machine translation research. Meanwhile, the hottest research trends appear to be the race to better quality and translating low-resource, non-Latin languages. Continue reading
Amazon’s third Amazon Research Awards picked 49 out of over 800 submissions and will be awarding research groups up to USD 80,000 each for their projects. Six submissions directly relate to natural language processing or neural machine translation. Continue reading
Research into neural machine translation in 2018 is exploding, with April 2018 being the busiest month ever for NMT, as Big Tech companies from Google to Facebook to Amazon go full throttle on multiple areas of research. Continue reading
In first trading update post Moravia acquisition, RWS says revenues jumped by 82% to GBP 139.6m and pre-tax profit was at least GBP 28.3m. While analysts continue to rate the stock a buy, the company lost over USD 250m in market cap in early London trading. Continue reading
Amazon comes out guns blazing in general launch of Amazon Translate and enlists Lionbridge as showcase customer. Pricing in line with other tech giants Google and Microsoft while quality still likely trails DeepL. Continue reading
Massive privacy breach at Translate.com, senior managers leaving TransPerfect in droves, RWS buying Moravia, Facebook launching neural machine translation, Pearl Linguistic going bust, and more than two dozen other stories that lit up the Slator website in 2017. Continue reading
Though Amazon announced its open-source, sequence-to-sequence machine learning framework Sockeye would be available to all last July 2017, its researchers waited until December 2017 to file papers into Arxiv so they can test their creation against WMT2017’s best. Continue reading
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