10 Areas Where Translators Are (and Will Remain) Essential Experts in the Loop
Where translators make the difference in mission-critical cases around subtitling, politics, brand marketing, language technology, and more. Continue reading
Tag: ASR
First in English, Soon in 12 More Languages: YouTube Offers Live Auto Captions for All
YouTube lifts 1,000-subscriber cap on access to live automatic captions for content creators. Video transcripts soon to be available on mobile devices as well. Continue reading
This Is How Automatic Speech Recognition & Machine Translation Are Revolutionizing Subtitling
Templates are to subtitles what automatic speech recognition (ASR) and machine translation (MT) are to the subtitling workflow: revolutionary. Experts test AppTek tool, share candid feedback. Continue reading
AI and GPT-3 in the Era of Content Creation
Language technology experts from e2f, Intento, and Coreon / ESTeam talk about how AI is transforming content generation, opening up new possibilities for localizing content. Continue reading
Google’s Latest Phone, Pixel 6, to Feature Live Translated Captions for Audio and Video
Google uses own system on a chip, Tensor, to power Google Live Caption and Interpreter Mode features for its latest smartphone, Pixel 6, slated for fall release 2021. Continue reading
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Facebook AI Open Sources New Multilingual Automatic Speech Recognition Data Set
After promising results in English, researchers hope Multilingual LibriSpeech’s 50,000 hours of audio across eight languages will improve automatic speech recognition around the world. Continue reading
Audio & Video Editing Platform Descript Raises USD 30m in Series B
At startup Descript, translation is one of the most requested features. Descript’s technology may offer interesting new opportunities for LSPs to expand their offering in media content. Continue reading
How to Improve Speech Recognition Technology for Your Business
Flitto provides multilingual corpus, speech, and image data to train AI engines in 25 different languages, covering a number of domains including conversational, colloquial, and medical. 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
DeepMind Says Impact of New End-to-End Machine Dubbing Tech May Be Widespread
New research from DeepMind and Google explores end-to-end semi-automated dubbing; cites ongoing concerns around misuse of mimicry — from deep fakes to consent issues. Continue reading
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US, China, Big Tech, and What’s New in Machine Translation Research
US and Chinese tech giants continue to churn out research on speech-to-text translation, machine translation for rare languages, and more. Time to check in. Continue reading
EU Publishes Complete List of Awardees in Automatic Speech Translation Contract
EU releases complete list of players in contract to automatically transcribe and translate multilingual parliamentary debates in real time; two consortia and Microsoft Belgium awarded for phase one. Continue reading
Reader Polls: Which Super LSP Will Win, Translation’s Oldest Debate, Localization Sales
Where do you weigh in on the universalist-relativist debate? Which Super Agency will do best over five years? Where will sales and marketing spend go? And will automatic speech translation fly? Continue reading
EU Parliament Awards Translated With Contract for Automatic Speech Translation
LSP Translated says automatic speech translation prototype to be delivered to Parliament within 12 months with two other solutions. EU to name best-performing solution official tool for two years. Continue reading
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