Microsoft Releases Interpreting Feature for Teams Meetings
Microsoft releases its own interpretation feature for Teams in 16 language pairs. Live captioning for Teams will follow in 31 language variants.
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‘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.
Sizing the Global Interpreting Market, DeepL Hiring Spree, Europe’s Audiovisual Hub
The growth industry of interpreting, BIG appoints a new CEO, DeepL moves into the enterprise, Spain’s audiovisual hub plan, shares in Zoo Digital rally, Dubdub raises USD 1m.
Argo Translation Acquires E-learning Specialist ICDTranslation
Chicago-based Argo Translation acquires local rival ICDTranslation; shares plans for further technology and services plays.
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.
Slator Interpreting Services and Technology Report
60-page report on the growth industry of interpreting, featuring analysis by mode, setting, geo, buyers, business use cases, RSI, OPI, VRI. Incl. market size estimate.
Consoltec Becomes a Microsoft Partner and Takes FlowFit-TMS To a Whole New Level
Consoltec will be able to leverage Microsoft’s capabilities to bring technology skills to the next level and further improve the security and reliability of FlowFit-TMS
Investors Bet on Multilingual Voice Assistants by Big Names and Newcomers
As Facebook and Google pour their own money into research on speech translation, investors outside the language industry turn their attention to multilingual voice assistants.
Is TensorFlow ‘for Boomers’? PyTorch May Gain More Ground in Machine Translation
Developers praise PyTorch, Facebook’s open source framework, for its flexibility, speed, and usability. But the machine translation world is not ready to dethrone TensorFlow just yet.
Microsoft Rolls Out ‘Document Translation’ for LSPs, Enterprises
Microsoft targets users with large translation volumes via a new feature that lifts the word cap on the Azure Translator service — while retaining the layout and structure of all source files.
Microsoft Tweaks Data-for-AI Policy After Big Tech Voice Data Collection Controversies
Following controversies over voice data collection at Microsoft, Apple, and Google, users of Microsoft Translator and Skype can now opt out of having their voice clips used to improve software.
EU Publishes Complete List of Awardees in Automatic Speech Translation Contract
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.
TWB, Big Tech, Academia Take on Covid-19 Language Challenge
Collaboration between Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, etc., and Translators Without Borders aims to fight Covid-19 infodemic through machine translation research.
Slator Language Industry Buyer Tracker May 2020
In this eighth monthly edition of our buyer tracker, we provide SlatorPro subscribers an easy-to-use selection of some of the most important changes happening among buy-side decision-makers.
Video Game Specialist Keywords Posts 30% Top Line Growth in 2019, Half of it Organic
UK-listed video game services provider Keywords Studios grew revenues by 30% in 2019, despite a “relatively light year for video games” ahead of new Xbox and Playstation.
Turnaround: TranslateMedia Posts Healthy Profit and 16% Revenue Growth in FY 2019
UK-headquartered language service provider TranslateMedia manages a turnaround from a disappointing 2018. Revenues up 16% to GBP 8.3m, bottom line recovers.
Slator’s Most Popular Language Industry Stories of 2019
Mergers and acquisitions helped the biggest LSPs get even bigger; AB5 prompts protests; bankruptcy, layoffs, and a canceled contract; and new standards for interpreters.
The Winning Papers from the World’s Largest Natural Language Processing Conference
The world’s largest NLP conference, EMNLP, announces the winners of the 2019 awards for Best Paper, Best Paper Runner-Up, Best Demo Paper and Best Resource Paper.
Slator 2019 Travel & Retail Localization Report
In-depth report on localization for the global Travel and Retail sector. Analysis of the competitive landscape, technologies, and actionable insights from major buyers and users.
Does Google’s BERT Matter in Machine Translation?
Less than one year after Google open-sourced its much-discussed language model BERT, experts weigh in on its potential uses in neural machine translation.
From Hype to API: Baidu Productizes Speech-to-Speech Translation
Baidu launches API for speech-to-speech translation based on technology outlined in late-2018 research paper, which was criticized at the time for overpromising.
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