Police arrest man for possession of 14 pounds of illegal drugs, but the case does not hold up in court because Google Translate was used to ask the defendant for permission to search his vehicle. Continue reading
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Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy launches the cloud computing giant’s enterprise neural machine translation offering at its annual conference in Las Vegas. Language service providers among core target client group. Continue reading
Servers in Iceland. A million words per second. Record BLEU scores. The founders of Linguee launch their neural machine translator DeepL with bold claims. Experts agree that DeepL will challenge other MT players but call the output far from revolutionary. Continue reading
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SDL posts 5% revenue growth but expansion into new verticals and in Asia hits gross margins. CEO Adolfo Hernandez discusses what affected the bottom line in the first six months, his plans for improving translator productivity, and why he’s not afraid of Amazon. Continue reading
Google publishes a tutorial on how to build a neural machine translation model from scratch in a push to accelerate adoption of its machine learning framework Tensorflow. Experts call the announcement important, but say production deployment requires much more than a tutorial. Continue reading
CNBC reports that Amazon is looking to offer the translation technology it built for internal use to third parties. The move would be a direct challenge to Google Translate and the many other MT offerings by big tech companies. Continue reading
Google Translate’s top 10 words commonly translated into English include many words of admiration and several days of the week. Results for most languages are consistent with Japanese being the outlier. Continue reading
Google Translate hides in plain site at annual developer conference. The talk was mostly about AI and the search giant’s proprietary processors that power neural machine translation. And then there was CEO Sundar Pichai introducing Google Lens, translation feature and all. Continue reading
Democrats pull bill looking to translate state website after Republicans tout wonders of Google Translate’s website widget, calling it a great bipartisan solution. Continue reading
Korea pits professional translators against assortment of neural machine translation engines. Contest shows that — unlike in Go — in terms of translation accuracy, humans remain firmly in the lead. Continue reading
The sale of Lionbridge and the battle for TransPerfect. The rise of neural machine translation and the death of a startup. The average translation rate in Germany and the United States. Here are Slator’s most popular stories of 2016. Continue reading
When Google’s CEO goes on stage and measures translation accuracy to the third decimal place, it is as good a time as any to take a closer look at the yardstick he uses. A short introduction to BLEU Continue reading
Google team publishes a detailed paper on its rapid progress in neural machine translation. Says new model running on Google’s Tensor Flow surpasses all other systems and approaches human translation. Continue reading
As Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter have become essential channels for many LSPs to reach clients, staff, and get leads, new platforms such as Quora and Medium could open yet another way to win the battle for visibility. Feeling fear of missing out at not having secured your Medium handle yet? Continue reading
The software used by 500 million people each month, which causes anxiety among linguists and has capped the potentially explosive growth of language services providers, enters its second decade. Time to take stock. Continue reading
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