In SEO, Google Says AI-Generated Content Is ‘Spam’
Google weighs in on how we should expect GPT-3-generated, multilingual content to figure in search rankings; explains why AI content violates its Webmaster Guidelines.
The Great Language Model Scale Off: Google’s PaLM
What does Google’s 540-billion parameter language model, PaLM, mean for machine learning and the language industry? Experts weigh in.
I/O Conference Spurs Google Translate to Push Innovation Into Production
Ahead of annual I/O conference, Google launches into a flurry of activity halfway through May 2022: a translation gizmo unveiled, a Google Translate update, and a presentation that drew critics.
Google Gives YouTubers Early Access to Machine Dubbing
Google opens early-access waitlist for Aloud, its new machine translation and machine dubbing solution built for YouTubers by Google’s in-house incubator, Area 120.
Google Not Indexing Translated Content Remains an Issue, User Reports
Ever wonder why your multilingual website isn’t ranking higher on Google Search despite all the SEO fairy dust — and dollars — you’ve thrown at it? Here are some reasons straight from a Google Expert.
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Google Research Brings ‘Massively Multilingual’ Machine Translation to 200+ Languages
How necessary is parallel data for improving machine translation quality for low-resource languages? Google researchers scale model with ‘pragmatic approach.’
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.
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.)
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.
Reader Polls: Dubbing Today vs. the ’90s; State Use of MT for Talking to Citizens
We asked your opinions on English dubbing, MT research findings, post-editing TM versus MT output, and Google Translate.
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.
So How Many Knew That YouTube Offered a Translate Comments Feature?
Google added “Translate comments” as an opt-in feature for YouTube Premium subscribers — but most will not hear about it, let alone have a chance to try it, before the September 9, 2021 expiry date.
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.
Google’s Latest Phone, Pixel 6, to Feature Live Translated Captions for Audio and Video
Google uses own system on a chip, Tensor, to power Google Live Caption and Interpreter Mode features for its latest smartphone, Pixel 6, slated for fall release 2021.
Google Ups Ante in Speech-to-Speech Translation With ‘Robust’ Translatotron 2
Google researchers say Translatotron 2 outperforms original in terms of speech-to-speech translation quality and naturalness. Plus the new version prevents users from generating speech for deepfakes.
Google Translate Still Shows Gender Bias. Here’s What Google Is Doing About It.
Google publishes translation dataset of biographies from Wikipedia in hopes of reducing gender bias in Google Translate output.
Sure, Google Translate Volumes Are Staggering, But Here Are Hotter Insights From Google I/O 2021
Google I/O 2021 unveils key developments relating to language technology — from assisted writing to new and powerful language models.
As Machine Translation Gains Ground, It Taints Training Data — New Research Shows
Is machine translation trained mostly on...machine translation? Research sparks discussion among MT experts. Quality issues found to be likely worse for non-English pairs, low-resource languages.
Appen Shares Plunge, TRSB Buys Anglocom, Evaluating MT, Huge RFP in Sweden
Appen’s shares plunge, TRSB acquires local rival Anglocom, Google MT evaluation paper released, USD 72m interpreting tender in Sweden, Slator Job Index rises again.
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