In first trading update post Moravia acquisition, RWS says revenues jumped by 82% to GBP 139.6m and pre-tax profit was at least GBP 28.3m. While analysts continue to rate the stock a buy, the company lost over USD 250m in market cap in early London trading. Continue reading
Amazon comes out guns blazing in general launch of Amazon Translate and enlists Lionbridge as showcase customer. Pricing in line with other tech giants Google and Microsoft while quality still likely trails DeepL. Continue reading
Appen delivers yet another stellar year with strong revenue and profit growth, lower expense ratio, and improved operating margins. Recent acquisitions appear to work well. Strong performance lifts Appen’s market cap to above AUD 1bn Continue reading
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. Continue reading
Though Amazon announced its open-source, sequence-to-sequence machine learning framework Sockeye would be available to all last July 2017, its researchers waited until December 2017 to file papers into Arxiv so they can test their creation against WMT2017’s best. Continue reading
Salesforce launches its own neural machine translation model at Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. The model has not been productized yet but AI unit head hints at deployment in 2018. Continue reading
Shares in Sydney-based Appen continue to rally and are up more than 600% since 2015 IPO. Strong 1H 2017 earnings mostly driven by booming unit which trains machine learning products. 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
In 2013, the European Patent Office (EPO) partnered with Google to power its for-information-only Patent Translate portal. In May 2017, the EPO rolled out neural machine translation. And as Europe implements a new patent regime in the coming years, machine translation will play an ever more important role. 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
As India’s entire population embraces digital, the need for local language content is growing fast. A report from KPMG and Google positions LSPs and freelance translators within India’s complex language ecosystem. Continue reading
As language translation emerges as a yardstick for progress in artificial intelligence, high quality human translation data becomes a prized asset. The race for AI leadership sees Baidu host translation marathons across China to fill its data trove. Continue reading
Yandex hires Microsoft veteran, folds machine translation unit into new machine learning division. Russian language industry researcher says while Yandex has a home court advantage, it will forever fight an uphill battle against Google. Continue reading
An in-depth look into technology’s impact on the transcription business and the parallels that exist with the language services industry. We talk to current and former transcription professionals to get their take on where the industry is headed. Continue reading
As Google deploys its recently unveiled neural machine translation model to Google Translate, new tweaks enable the system to translate new languages without any prior training or reference data. Continue reading
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