Research on Speech-to-Speech Translation is Booming
In just three months, universities and tech companies released over two dozen papers on speech-to-speech translation (S2ST), highlighting continuing trends, new directions in research.
AI Dubbing Finds Traction, Translation Buyer’s Guide Published
NeuralGarage raises USD 1.45m, Papercup wins big with Bloomberg, large language models and their use in machine translation, and public sector RFPs for translation services.
Google Translation Hub — Mallika Iyer on Launch, Features, and Roadmap
Google’s Head of Translation AI, Mallika Iyer, on serving enterprise customers with Translation Hub, her passion for solving user problems, and making content more accessible.
How Good Are Large Language Models at Machine Translation?
Very fluent but not yet highly accurate — this is how Google researchers describe machine translation performance of large language models versus state-of-the-art MT.
Reader Polls: Should Translation Tests Be Multiple Choice?
How LSPs view Google Translation Hub, acceptable format of translation tests, growth expectations in media localization, impact of latest AI developments.
Slator 2022 Language Industry M&A and Funding Report
44-pages on 2022 translation and localization industry acquisitions and translation startup investments, with valuations, deal rationale.
In Literary Translation, Humans Prefer Humans and Machines Prefer Machines
A literary translation experiment using Google Translate and paragraph alignment reveals only slight improvements in post-edited text versus professional human translations.
Google Just Launched Translation Hub, Its Enterprise-Scale Translation Service
At Google Cloud Next ’22, CEO Sundar Pichai unveils Translation Hub, Google’s document translation service that translates content while preserving document formats.
Game Developers (and Localizers) Caught by Surprise as Google Shuts Down Stadia
Google draws curtain on Stadia gaming platform. Game developers react.
Google Unveils Plans to Translate Local News at Search On 22 Conference
At Search On 22, Google announced that users will be able to perform English searches of non-English news starting early 2023.
After 70% Drop in Shares Since 2020 IPO, Ai-Media Bags Google Contract
Ai-Media inks three-year USD 3.5m contract to provide live captions and translation services to Google employees. Deal win provides welcome reprieve after steep share drop since IPO.
‘Most important AI Model in the Last Decade’ — Meet Large Language Model BLOOM
Open-sourcing large language models is catching on among tech giants, such as Google and Meta. Now comes BLOOM, whose 1,000 contributors designed it with multilingualism in mind.
Machine Dubbing Startup Dubverse Raises USD 0.8m in Seed Round
Synthetic dubbing startup, Dubverse, raises USD 800,000 in seed round led by Kalaari Capital; offers “real time” automated dubbing.
AI Organizations Release Best Practices for Deploying Large Language Models
Cohere, OpenAI, and AI21 Labs publish preliminary set of best practices applicable to any organization developing or deploying large language models.
Large Language Models May Leak Personal Data, Studies Show
Large pretrained language models (PLMs) memorize lots of personal data. Researchers examine data privacy risks associated with PLMs, propose solutions.
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.
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.
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.
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.’
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