Highlights of virtual conference on the language market in India; with practical takeaways from language industry stakeholders on challenges, opportunities, and hot-button issues. Continue reading
Mere months after launch, GPT-3 is already being commercialized by early adopters. Email productivity startup OthersideAI is one of them — and they just raised USD 2.6m in seed funding. Continue reading
Google study shows human-paraphrased reference translations and new evaluation metric, BLEUP, produce better translations. Findings to be integrated into consumer-facing products. Continue reading
New research from DeepMind and Google explores end-to-end semi-automated dubbing; cites ongoing concerns around misuse of mimicry — from deep fakes to consent issues. Continue reading
Lingvanex is seeking a seed round of $1M to continue expanding in B2B market Continue reading
MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) derives algorithm to handle lack of training data, making it easier to adopt current machine translation methods. Continue reading
Japanese machine translation (MT) and language service provider (LSP) Rozetta grew 3.2% to USD 19m in the first half, as MT revenues climbed 46%. Continue reading
US Department of Homeland Security awards California startup in Phase 1 of RFP for “portable language translator.” Call for tenders still open until February 2021. Continue reading
EU releases complete list of players in contract to automatically transcribe and translate multilingual parliamentary debates in real time; two consortia and Microsoft Belgium awarded for phase one. Continue reading
Since its 2017 debut, Sockeye has powered Amazon Translate and gathered decent traction elsewhere. The new version adopts Gluon base code and gets a boost from Intel and NVIDIA. Continue reading
French machine translation provider SYSTRAN has a new owner, STIC Investments. Minority shareholders include SoftBank Korea, others. Plans M&A. Continue reading
Facebook AI invites developers to improve a speech translation dataset and a open sources a toolkit that evaluates simultaneous speech and text translation. Continue reading
Intento an expert in machine translation evaluation, has published its annual report, The State of Machine Translation 2020 Continue reading
Debates will be transcribed and translated by a new state-of-the-art MT system that keeps humans in the loop Continue reading
Salesforce research on speeding up the work of post-editors by training MT engines with XML tags culminates in a 17-language online help dataset published on Github. Continue reading
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