Meta Doubles Down on Direct Speech-to-Speech Translation
Meta eliminates text generation in speech to speech translation; shares code and research with the public.
ICYMI: Meta Already Has Download-on-Demand Translation for Android and iOS
Among the many things cooking at Meta: downloadable language packs for Android and iOS users to enjoy download-on-demand translation.
Meta Claims ‘Breakthrough’ in Machine Translation for Low-Resource Languages
The new model, praised by Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is already being used to improve more than 25 billion translations daily on Facebook, Instagram, and other apps.
Meta VP Iris Orriss Announces Shift from Community Translation to Single-Language Vendors
Meta’s VP of Internationalization, Iris Orriss, joins SlatorPod to talk about language operations at Meta, pioneering new localization approaches, and the future of the Metaverse.
Look Who’s Hiring Localization Professionals for the Metaverse
In virtual reality, physical borders may be less of an issue than language barriers. As Meta hypes its Metaverse, language managers work behind the scenes to localize the space.
Slator Interpreting Services and Technology Report
60-page report on the growth industry of interpreting, featuring analysis by mode, setting, geo, buyers, business use cases, RSI, OPI, VRI. Incl. market size estimate.
Meta Unveils Supercomputer to Power Translation in the Metaverse
Meta shoots for completing world’s fastest supercomputer by mid-2022. Here’s what it can do in terms of natural language processing and translation — and what the facility looks like today.
Linguists Wanted! 10 Language Jobs Big Tech Is Hiring For Right Now
Curating datasets, reviewing user-generated content, and liaising with locals — all in a day’s work for a linguist hired by big tech. (No computer science degree or published research required.)
Facebook (You Know, Meta) CTO Hypes WMT 2021 Win as ‘Truly Groundbreaking’
To be fair, this is the first-ever multilingual model to win the international machine translation contest. But major tech companies have been exploring multilingual models for years.
Facebook AI’s SOTA Speech Translation Models Go Against Grain
As the language industry turns to speech-to-speech translation, Facebook AI partners with “AI community” Hugging Face to release speech-to-text translation models for four languages.
Zoom Opts for Speech-to-Text in New Transcription and Translation Features
Zoom call add-ons planned for beta release in September 2021. Transcription available in 30 languages, and translation, in 12, by year-end 2022.
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.
Facebook Takes a Stab at True Speech-to-Speech Translation via Textless NLP
Facebook sees textless natural language processing (NLP) as rendering automatic speech translation (ASR) obsolete by working in true end-to-end fashion: from speech input to speech output.
Investors Bet on Multilingual Voice Assistants by Big Names and Newcomers
As Facebook and Google pour their own money into research on speech translation, investors outside the language industry turn their attention to multilingual voice assistants.
Facebook, Amazon, Twitter Research ‘Blind Spot’ in Modern Machine Translation
New paper by Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, and University of Melbourne examines vulnerability of systems using back translation to attacks on monolingual training data.
New Machine Translation Metric Measures Correct and Consistent Term Use
Facebook, Naver, and George Mason University release open-sourced metric based on Covid-19 terms; hope to bridge gap between academia and industry.
Is TensorFlow ‘for Boomers’? PyTorch May Gain More Ground in Machine Translation
Developers praise PyTorch, Facebook’s open source framework, for its flexibility, speed, and usability. But the machine translation world is not ready to dethrone TensorFlow just yet.
Facebook AI Open Sources New Multilingual Automatic Speech Recognition Data Set
After promising results in English, researchers hope Multilingual LibriSpeech’s 50,000 hours of audio across eight languages will improve automatic speech recognition around the world.
Slator Language Industry Buyer Tracker November 2020
In the November 2020 edition of our buyer tracker, we provide SlatorPro subscribers with a selection of some of the most important changes among buy-side decision-makers.
Facebook Says This Is the Culmination of Years of Work in Machine Translation
The new machine translation model, trained on 2,200 language directions, builds on Facebook’s past research on parallel sentences not aligned with English.
US, China, Big Tech, and What’s New in Machine Translation Research
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.
Your information will never be shared with third parties. No Spam.