Amazon comes out guns blazing in general launch of Amazon Translate and enlists Lionbridge as showcase customer. Pricing in line with other tech giants Google and Microsoft while quality still likely trails DeepL. Continue reading
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Massive privacy breach at Translate.com, senior managers leaving TransPerfect in droves, RWS buying Moravia, Facebook launching neural machine translation, Pearl Linguistic going bust, and more than two dozen other stories that lit up the Slator website in 2017. Continue reading
From technology, markets, and M&A to investment and the competitive landscape, the language industry leaders we interviewed in 2017 commented on a wide range of issues – here are our top picks. Continue reading
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Efficiency boost for tens of thousands of translators as MMT launches the first ever adaptive neural machine translation plugin for two of the most widely used translation productivity tools, SDL Trados Studio and MateCat. 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
Jaroslaw Kutylowski, Chief Technology Officer of DeepL, talks about why they decided to enter machine translation, discusses how they plan to monetize their technology, and weighs in on the man vs. machine debate. Continue reading
Slator readers are split on whether DeepL beats Google Translate. Many think boutique LSPs are most at risk from technology-driven change. Confidentiality is a key issue for many linguists, and only 16% think universities prepare translation students well. Continue reading
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
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