Dotsub Collapses, Microsoft Delights, ChatGPT Traffic Peaks, EU Chooses MT
ChatGPT traffic hits its peak, large language model inflation, EU's little ‘housekeeping announcement’, Dotsub says goodbye, Microsoft’s Language Portal is back.
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After Outcry from Users, Microsoft Revives Language Portal
The translation and localization resource, originally set to expire on June 30, 2023, takes a new form, but with much of the same information. Professionals praise Microsoft’s decision.
Meet the First Machine Translation Model Supporting All 22 Scheduled Indian Languages
IndicTrans2 addresses the challenge of machine translation for Indian languages with the researchers providing accessible models, comprehensive training datasets, and diverse benchmarks.
Researchers Improve Machine Translation of Rare Words in Low-Resource Languages
Microsoft and the Chinese University of Hong Kong study shows enhancing large language models with multilingual dictionaries improves machine translation.
Microsoft and Amazon Announce Similar New Machine Translation Features a Day Apart
Microsoft and Amazon make similar new machine translation feature announcements within a day of each other, both intended for enterprise users.
Microsoft Partners with TAUS to Provide Domain-Specific Machine Translation on Azure Marketplace
Starting May 2023, Microsoft customers will be able to select Custom Translator domain-specific models on Azure Marketplace.
Microsoft Kills Off Beloved Language Portal
Since its launch in 2009, Microsoft’s multilingual online dictionary has become a “go-to” resource for IT translation; translators doubt the long-term usefulness of legacy terminology.
Microsoft Researchers Want to Escape Machine Translation’s ‘Sentence-Level Paradigm’
Microsoft proposes a path forward for document-based machine translation, breaking free from the sentence-level translation paradigm.
Microsoft’s Christian Federmann on the Translation Quality of Large Language Models
Christian Federmann on working with Microsoft Translator, research on large language models and machine translation, and Microsoft's approach to expanding language support.
Microsoft Says Large Language Models Are SotA Evaluators of Translation Quality
Microsoft introduces a GPT-based metric to evaluate translation quality and highlights the state-of-the-art capabilities of large language models (LLMs) in this task.
MrBeast Is Hiring a CEO to Run His Dubbing Company Creator Global
MrBeast adds dubbing services to his portfolio, ChatGPT is not a threat for Ai-Media, Microsoft on how well large language models can translate, and fastest growing LSPs in 2023.
Microsoft Says Large Language Models Show ‘Competitive Machine Translation Quality’
Researchers at Microsoft conduct experiments comparing large language model GPT to other MT systems. One GPT stands out with high-resource languages. None do with low-resource languages.
Straker Drops Full-Year Revenue Guidance After Subdued Q3 FY23
New Zealand-based language service provider (LSP), Straker Translations, reports slowed growth as a result of worsening trading conditions and delayed IBM project.
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.
Converting Any Pre-Trained MT Metric Into a Document-Level Metric — An Amazon Study
Researchers from Amazon present a simple procedure for extending pretrained machine translation evaluation metrics to the document level.
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