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Technology • By Seyma Albarino On 4 Jan 2023

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.

Natural Language Processing • By Maria Stasimioti On 21 Nov 2022

Meta Releases Large Dataset for Multilingual Speech-to-Speech Translation

Meta has released SpeechMatrix, a large-scale mined corpus of multilingual speech-to-speech translations.

Machine Translation • By Maria Stasimioti On 14 Oct 2022

Meta Reveals How ‘Toxic’ Machine Translation Can Be

Researchers from Meta suggest training-data curation as a means to reduce added toxicity in machine translation. Toxicity categories include profanity, insults, hate speech, bullying, etc.

Technology • By Seyma Albarino On 19 Jul 2022

‘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 Translation • By Seyma Albarino On 8 Jul 2022

Meta Claims ‘Breakthrough’ in Machine Translation for Low-Resource Languages

The new model, praised by Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is already being used to improve more than 25 billion translations daily on Facebook, Instagram, and other apps.

Natural Language Processing • By Rocío Txabarriaga On 20 Jun 2022

Meta Doubles Down on Direct Speech-to-Speech Translation

Meta eliminates text generation in speech to speech translation; shares code and research with the public.

Natural Language Processing • By Maria Stasimioti On 31 May 2022

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.

Machine Translation • By Maria Stasimioti On 23 May 2022

Meta Tries Making Human Evaluation of Machine Translation More Consistent

Social media giant Meta proposes new metric to enable more consistency in human evaluation of machine translation; addresses big challenge in translation QA for low-resource language pairs.

Technology • By Christy Whyte On 18 May 2022

ICYMI: Meta Already Has Download-on-Demand Translation for Android and iOS

Among the many things cooking at Meta: downloadable language packs for Android and iOS users to enjoy download-on-demand translation.

Technology • By Christy Whyte On 12 May 2022

Meta ‘Open-Sources’ Its Latest Large Language Model

Meta AI wants to make large language models more accessible to researchers with the release of OPT-175B; advocates R&D transparency and a “research mindset.”

Podcasts & Videos • By Slator On 18 Mar 2022

Meta VP Iris Orriss Announces Shift from Community Translation to Single-Language Vendors

Meta’s VP of Internationalization, Iris Orriss, joins SlatorPod to talk about language operations at Meta, pioneering new localization approaches, and the future of the Metaverse.

Industry News • By Seyma Albarino On 16 Mar 2022

Camera Always On? How the Language Industry Manages Remote Work

While translators have long been able to work outside the traditional office, what do language service providers think about trading their remote work setups for virtual workplaces?

Machine Translation • By Marion Marking On 28 Feb 2022

More Than Hype: Meta Reveals Two-Pronged Machine Translation Roadmap

Part of the billions of dollars going into the Metaverse will undoubtedly go into these two areas of machine translation. Meta AI reveals its MT roadmap and the people working on it.

Podcasts & Videos • By Slator On 25 Feb 2022

Ranking the World’s Largest Language Service Providers

Key highlights from Slator’s 2022 Language Service Provider Index, NeuralSpace’s USD 1.7m seed round, and Meta’s language and MT plans.

Investment & Funding • By Seyma Albarino On 21 Feb 2022

Translation and Remote Work Platform Viva Translate Closes USD 4m Seed Round

100,000 Spanish-speaking workers in IT, design, data entry, and more on waitlist to use Viva Translate machine translation to communicate with potential US employers.

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