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Machine Translation • By Seyma Albarino On 5 Nov 2021

Gamers Debate: Does Machine Translation Make Game Localization Worse?

Studios release machine translated games and players run QA. Fan translations predate MT, but new tools may help gamers contribute to more seamless localizations.

Machine Translation • By Seyma Albarino On 8 Mar 2021

500-Million-Sentence Dataset Can Boost Machine Translation for Low-Resource Languages

500-million-sentence dataset from Jörg Tiedemann, Professor at University of Helsinki, can improve back translation by centralizing monolingual content for 188 languages.

Machine Translation • By Seyma Albarino On 29 Jan 2021

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.

Machine Translation • By Seyma Albarino On 28 Jan 2020

The Masakhane Project Puts Africa on the Machine Translation Map

Over 60 contributors in 15 African countries are gathering data and developing machine translation models to translate the Internet into indigenous languages.

Subscriber Content, Technology • By Gino Diño On 6 May 2019

Inside Translation, Localization, and NLP on GitHub, the World’s #1 Code Sharing Site

Over two dozen charts and tables and high-level visualizations as well as analysis of GitHub code repositories relevant to the language industry.

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Research & Reports • By Slator On 18 Jan 2019

Slator Buy-Side Report 2018: Actionable Insights From the Language Industry Buy-Side

Features 23 buyer profiles along industry verticals including buyer name, translation volume and / or spend (where available), technology used, sourcing approach, other key insights.

Features • By Esther Bond On 31 Dec 2018

SlatorCon 2018—Your Definitive Guide And Key Takeaways

SlatorCon tour took in four global cities across three continents in 2018 and featured a grand total of 35 speakers representing the full breadth of the language industry from startups, language technology and language service providers to the buy side, finance and academia.

Features • By Gino Diño On 13 Dec 2018

How Ubiqus Deploys Neural Machine Translation in Language Operations

Ubiqus CEO Vincent Nguyen walked SlatorCon participants through Ubiqus’ one-and-a-half year journey towards implementing neural machine translation in production and how they are encouraging internal and external stakeholders to get onboard.

Features • By Gino Diño On 29 Dec 2017

Slator’s Most Popular Language Industry Stories of 2017

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.

Technology • By Eden Estopace On 8 Aug 2017

‘Localization’ Debuts in GitHub’s New Marketplace

GitHub’s new bazaar for apps now has a category for localization. The first app in this category promises to simplify workflows for software developers when translating content.

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