The 10 Most Popular Language Industry Stories of 2021
After an extraordinary year, our look back on 2021 — from Big Tech to big buys, machine translation to translators’ job prospects — shows the language industry is thriving.
DeepL
Reader Polls: Will the Rise of DeepL Continue?
Viewing habits on into-English dubbed content, DeepL’s future growth, online conference trends, and thoughts on protecting civilian linguists in conflict situations.
Swiss Post Bans DeepL, (Partially) Backs Down After Staff Uproar
After pushback, Switzerland’s national postal service reverses ban on employees using DeepL, Google Translate. Ban remains for PostFinance bank, which must rely on internal MT engine, Post Translate.
Inside DeepL: The World’s Fastest-Growing, Most Secretive Machine Translation Company
How DeepL outmaneuvered big tech, won a following, and is now rapidly moving into machine translation as a managed service for enterprise customers.
Lionbridge Acquires Gengo to Bolster AI Business
Lionbridge acquires former crowdsourcing translation startup Gengo in bid to boost AI training data and services business.
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DeepL and Rozetta Translate Now Fully Managed in Memsource
Memsource has expanded its list of fully managed engines by adding DeepL and Rozetta Translate.
DeepL Adds 13 European Languages as Traffic Continues to Surge
World’s most popular non-Big Tech machine translation provider, DeepL, adds 13 EU languages as visitor traffic continues to push global engagement ranking past other MT platforms.
Slator 2019 Language Industry M&A and Funding Report
Download the Slator 2019 Language Industry M&A and Funding Report — an in-depth summary and analysis of the 60 language industry M&A and 15 start-up and tech funding rounds.
Reader Polls: December Business, Machine Translation, EU Translation RFPs, 2020 Outlook
How was December business for LSPs? What are the most-used MT services? Should the EU rethink its translation RFPs and tests? What’s the language industry outlook for 2020?
Corporate Development Pro Patrick Prokesch Shares Key M&A Insights for LSPs
i5invest’s Senior Director details a typical negotiation timeline, names success stories, and predicts the “next big thing” in language industry investment at SlatorCon Amsterdam 2019.
Keywords Studios Buys Machine Translation Provider KantanMT for Up to EUR 7 Million
Game localizer and technical service provider Keywords Studios will spend up to EUR 7m on proprietary machine translation technology in buying Ireland’s KantanMT.
Which Engines Work for Me? Machine Translation as a Managed Service at One Hour Translation
At SlatorCon Amsterdam 2019, One Hour Translation’s Yaron Kaufman shared his strategy for showing customers why now is the time to adopt machine translation.
A Warning About Data Annotation as a Business From a Man Who Sells AI to AI Firms
Acrolinx Founder Andrew Bredenkamp walked SlatorCon Amsterdam 2019 attendees through AI’s current challenges and his predictions for the next three years.
Researchers Propose New Way to Detect Machine Translation — Maybe Google Could Use It
Google has admitted machine translated content is a challenge to ranking algorithms. Researchers at the University of Tokyo may have found a solution: back-translation.
Unbabel Raises USD 60m Series C Taking Language Industry Startup Crown
Language services and tech startup Unbabel raises massive USD 60m Series C from Point72 Ventures as it takes lead among emerging group of language industry AI agencies.
New DeepL CEO on Customer Service and Human-in-the-Loop Translation
Interview with new DeepL CEO Jaroslaw Kutylowski about Europe focus, customer service, and the role of professional translators as machine translation improves.
Slator 2019 Language Industry Market Report
Slator’s inaugural comprehensive language industry market report. It examines total market size, the 10 main end-buyer industries, competitive landscape, productivity tech, NMT and much more.
Survey Examines Machine Translation Post-Editing Among Freelancers and LSPs
The results of two post-editing of machine translation surveys shine a light on the opinions of practitioners (post-editors and LSPs) on post-editing.
AMAG is Living Life in the Multilingual Lane, with Supertext Greasing the Wheels
Switzerland’s biggest automotive company has been relying on Supertext’s technology and creativity to translate multilingual communications for VW and Seat since the beginning of 2019.
How Language Featured at the 2019 Applied Machine Learning Days
Language industry startups Unbabel and Lilt took to the stage at one of Europe’s largest machine learning conferences and explained how they build atop evermore sophisticated AI tech.
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