Egypt Inks Machine Translation, NLP Deal with China’s iFlytek
Chinese speech recognition and AI provider iFlytek signs R&D deal with Egypt’s ICT Ministry to develop natural language processing and machine translation solutions. Continue reading
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Slator 2019 Language Industry M&A and Funding Report
Download the Slator 2019 Language Industry M&A and Funding Report — an in-depth summary and analysis of the 60 language industry M&A and 15 start-up and tech funding rounds. Continue reading
Slator Job Index Climbs During Record-Breaking August 2019
Slator Language Industry Job Index (LIJI), which tracks how employment activity is trending across the global language industry, hits record levels in August 2019. Continue reading
State-Sponsored Speech Recognition: China’s iFlytek Raises USD 400m in ‘Private’ Placement
Chinese language technology and voice recognition company iFlytek raises over two billion yuan from state actors, including a railway development fund and a provincial “VC” fund. Continue reading
Slator 2019 Language Industry Market Report
Slator’s inaugural comprehensive language industry market report. It examines total market size, the 10 main end-buyer industries, competitive landscape, productivity tech, NMT and much more. Continue reading
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Here Are Some Translation Devices Consumers Are Actually Buying
Rundown on the latest translation gadgets; from the bestsellers to those that ended up in the gadget graveyard. Continue reading
What Happened in Vegas: Translation Earpieces, Google Interpretation Mode
A rundown of the translation and interpretation gadgets and earpieces presented at the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Continue reading
Slator 2019 Neural Machine Translation Report—Deploying NMT in Operations
Through five case studies and nearly 30 commentaries from the buy (enterprise, government, and more)- and sell-side (LSPs), this report shines a light on the sentiment of industry practitioners... Continue reading
Is Machine Translation Essential to U.S. National Security?
The US government is asking for public comment to determine whether a range of “emerging technologies,” including machine translation, are essential to national security and should be subject to... Continue reading
China Tech Leader Accused of Faking AI-Generated Simultaneous Interpreting
An interpreter accused multi-billion listed company of passing off human interpretation as the output of its AI translation engine on social media. The post sparked off a media frenzy questioning... Continue reading
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Asia’s Race to Productize Translation for the Consumer Market
The pace of translation product launches targeting the mass consumer market is accelerating in Asia. Earpieces, apps, and handheld devices are sold across potentially vast markets like China,... Continue reading
How Translation Gadgets Overpromise and Underdeliver
While the folks at Skype Translator admit their technology still has a negative impact on conversation, many others a far less modest. A short history of hype, broken promises, and much ado about... Continue reading
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