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. Continue reading
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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.) Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
Automatic Dubbing: Amazon AI Researchers Explore Length-Controlled MT
Amazon AI researchers delve deeper into automatic dubbing by controlling the length of machine translation output, aiming to automate “complex and demanding” dubbing workflow. Continue reading
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How Netflix, Disney (Maybe Even Amazon) Are Driving Demand for English Dubbing
Helped in no small part by lockdowns, the world’s streaming giants can take credit for the broadened palate for foreign content of its English-speaking customers — who now clamor for better dubbing. Continue reading
Inside DeepL: The World’s Fastest-Growing, Most Secretive Machine Translation Company
How DeepL outmaneuvered big tech, won a following, and is now rapidly moving into machine translation as a managed service for enterprise customers. Continue reading
Facebook, Amazon, Twitter Research ‘Blind Spot’ in Modern Machine Translation
New paper by Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, and University of Melbourne examines vulnerability of systems using back translation to attacks on monolingual training data. Continue reading
Machine Translation Left Unaddressed by EU in Proposed AI Legislation
How risky are machine translation and other natural language processing applications? “First AI legislation on the planet” aims to mitigate risk. Violators may face significant fines for breach. Continue reading
Apple’s Job Openings for ‘Creative Producers’ May Hint at Plans for Machine Dubbing
Voice producers fluent in a range of languages will work with synthetic speech to improve Siri — but Apple could be setting the stage for broader use cases, such as dubbing. Continue reading
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Amazon Looks to Further Automate Quality Checks in Subtitle Translation
Team of Amazon researchers uses synthetically introduced errors to model a new way of identifying the over and under translation of human translated video subtitles. Continue reading
AI Incident Database Spotlights Worst Machine Translation Fails
From gender biases to unjust arrests, a database — inspired by transparency in aviation and cybersecurity — hopes to become the “collective memory” of AI systems’ failings. Continue reading
Focusing on BLEU Can Bias Machine Translation Output
Though beam search can boost BLEU scores, it can also lead to high rates of misgendered pronouns, even when translating between two gendered languages. Continue reading
Amazon Productizes NLP via Alexa, Puts ‘Live Translation’ Into Echo
Amazon launches Live Translation for Alexa from English into six languages; says new feature builds on previous tech, such as Amazon Translate. Continue reading
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