TransPerfect buys San Francisco-based TranslateNow in first acquisition since legal battle ended. Sales up 21% to USD 275m in first five months of 2018 as execs who had left in protest over Lionbridge bid begin to return. Continue reading
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While consumers want earphones that can translate, according to a recent poll of Ericsson Consumer Lab, all and any device that was launched in 2017 was roundly panned by critics. Continue reading
Salesforce launches its own neural machine translation model at Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. The model has not been productized yet but AI unit head hints at deployment in 2018. Continue reading
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The pace of translation product launches targeting the mass consumer market is accelerating in Asia. Earpieces, apps, and handheld devices are sold across potentially vast markets like China, Japan, and Korea. Continue reading
CNBC reports that Amazon is looking to offer the translation technology it built for internal use to third parties. The move would be a direct challenge to Google Translate and the many other MT offerings by big tech companies. Continue reading
As language translation emerges as a yardstick for progress in artificial intelligence, high quality human translation data becomes a prized asset. The race for AI leadership sees Baidu host translation marathons across China to fill its data trove. Continue reading
Baidu Chief Scientist says they pioneered neural machine translation. A few months into its MoJ contract, the thebigword already responds to bad press. Keywords Studios acquires Spanish game localizer. And TransPerfect preps for Supreme Court. Continue reading
Microsoft translates all of Wikipedia’s English pages in under a tenth of a second. Baidu rolls out open source, deep learning yardstick. Nvidia wants to power AI; and Amazon and Samsung update translation-related patents. Continue reading
The software used by 500 million people each month, which causes anxiety among linguists and has capped the potentially explosive growth of language services providers, enters its second decade. Time to take stock. Continue reading
Exclusive look behind the scenes at China’s most advanced Natural Language Processing program. What drives the technology that processes 100m daily translation requests and learn why Baidu predicts a machine translation breakthrough within the next 5 years. Continue reading
Machine translation companies watch out: Baidu President Zhang Yaqin says supercomputing capabilities like machine translation make them competitive, steps up deal-making. Continue reading
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