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. Continue reading
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
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. Continue reading
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
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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
Google publishes translation dataset of biographies from Wikipedia in hopes of reducing gender bias in Google Translate output. Continue reading
Google I/O 2021 unveils key developments relating to language technology — from assisted writing to new and powerful language models. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
New Google research shows that automatic MT evaluation metrics trained by professional translators can outperform inexperienced (human) crowd workers, who favor “easy-to-rate” literal translations. Continue reading
Voice producers fluent in a range of languages will work with synthetic speech to improve Siri — but Apple could be setting the stage for broader use cases, such as dubbing. Continue reading
Study published in peer-reviewed medical journal says Google Translate, despite achieving high accuracy in two languages, is still not ready for use in emergencies. Continue reading
Dating powerhouse Match Group (Match.com) makes biggest purchase to date: Korean tech startup Hyperconnect; pays USD 1.73bn or about 8.6x 2020 revenues for app built on Google Translation API. Continue reading
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