AI data leader Appen sees share price drop 11% in May amid continuing retreat from all-time highs of 2020. Company splits reporting into separate Services and Product segments. Continue reading
While Covid’s impact on clients’ priorities limited Appen’s revenue growth to 12%, the data-for-AI giant hopes new clients and the Chinese market will boost future performance. Continue reading
Chinese tech company ByteDance (TikTok) hopes NeurST, which bypasses the transcription step integral to traditional, cascaded speech translation, will standardize benchmarks in the field. Continue reading
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
China releases new list of technologies prohibited from export; includes tech related to text prediction, voice recognition, and Chinese and English “correction technology.” Continue reading
Chinese speech recognition and AI provider iFlytek signs R&D deal with Egypt’s ICT Ministry to develop natural language processing and machine translation solutions. Continue reading
A survey of 113 companies in Mainland China shows that many plan to return to office in March 2020 — but expect losses, particularly for on-site and English-language services. Continue reading
An October 2019 paper by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute examines how China can employ machine translation tools used by consumers to collect data on users outside the country. Continue reading
Chinese e-learning provider Youdao files to go public in New York, seeking to raise USD 300m. Youdao’s suite of products centers around online dictionaries and machine translation tools. Continue reading
Backed by big China tech, language data startup UTH International raised a Series C, bringing total funds raised to about USD 30m. Continue reading
Chinese language technology and voice recognition company iFlytek raises over two billion yuan from state actors, including a railway development fund and a provincial “VC” fund. Continue reading
Increase in patent applications drives translation demand. Over a quarter million patent applications filed with WIPO in 2018; Asia and the US top the list. Continue reading
As NLP developments march on unabated, recent news reflects the state of research, investor excitement, and production deployment levels for current technologies. Continue reading
How not to fall prey to bogus LSPs, arrests for pirated translations, translation missteps seen around the world, humble admissions from online giants, and the end to the ownership battle for the... Continue reading
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