After sampling over a hundred movies and series, we found evidence of machine dubbing at one of the world’s largest video streamers. AI dubbing reportedly led to a revenue boost.
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.
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.
Chinese tech company ByteDance (TikTok) hopes NeurST, which bypasses the transcription step integral to traditional, cascaded speech translation, will standardize benchmarks in the field.
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.
China releases new list of technologies prohibited from export; includes tech related to text prediction, voice recognition, and Chinese and English “correction technology.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
Backed by big China tech, language data startup UTH International raised a Series C, bringing total funds raised to about USD 30m.
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.
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.
As NLP developments march on unabated, recent news reflects the state of research, investor excitement, and production deployment levels for current technologies.
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 largest language service providers — these were the hottest stories of 2018.
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