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. Continue reading
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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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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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. Continue reading
Shares in Language Service Provider Ai-Media Rise After IPO
Shares in translation, transcription, captioning, and subtitling provider Ai-Media open strong after Sydney IPO, boosting company’s market cap to nearly AUD 200m. Continue reading
Slator Language Industry Buyer Tracker September 2020
In the September 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. Continue reading
Facebook Ramps Up Open Source Drive Into Speech Translation
Facebook AI invites developers to improve a speech translation dataset and a open sources a toolkit that evaluates simultaneous speech and text translation. Continue reading
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