Acquisition activity picks up in the new year as more announcements create ever bigger LSPs. The Danish government tries their hand at aggregating public sector translation demand, and Microsoft claims “human parity” in machine translation. 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
Microsoft did not pull any punches announcing their research findings on new neural machine translation systems that have achieved “human parity” in Chinese to English news translation according to a new human evaluation method they developed. 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
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
Come October 17, users can suggest translation corrections on their Windows 10 OS through the new Language Community app. The program has already opened for so called Windows Insiders. Continue reading
Servers in Iceland. A million words per second. Record BLEU scores. The founders of Linguee launch their neural machine translator DeepL with bold claims. Experts agree that DeepL will challenge other MT players but call the output far from revolutionary. 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
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
Dell’s Wayne Bourland on how the tech giant routes vast amounts of content through its well oiled localization machine; and what forces he sees shaping the future of the language industry. Continue reading
Technology giant Microsoft releases 2GB of audio, transcription, and translation corpus. Says it wants to create “the gold standard” to evaluate speech language translation, but admits that using Skype Translator still has a clear negative impact on conversation. 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
Microsoft translates all of Wikipedia’s English pages in under a tenth of a second. Baidu rolls out open source, deep learning yardstick. Nvidia wants to power AI; and Amazon and Samsung update translation-related patents. Continue reading
Lilt pokes the SDL bear. And Google asks the public for free translation. Meanwhile, Facebook files a machine learning patent, ex-Lingotek CEO is now the CTO of inWhatLanguage, and Lionbridge’s Microsoft temps sign their first union contract. Continue reading
The software used by 500 million people each month, which causes anxiety among linguists and has capped the potentially explosive growth of language services providers, enters its second decade. Time to take stock. Continue reading
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