Why Enterprises Fail to Integrate AI and What to Do About It
At SlatorCon Remote December 2020, Intento Co-founder and CEO Konstantin Savenkov discusses alternative pricing models that account for machine translation quality. Continue reading
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#50 New Rates in Germany, Financial Translation, LSP Channel Partners
Linguists in Germany's courts receive pay rise, equity research translation in Japan, and SDL's partnership with Rovva. Continue reading
Dodging AI Biases in Machine Translation
Machine translation company Intento uses metadata and MT-agnostic natural language processing to dodge AI biases around gender and tone of voice. Continue reading
DeepMind Says Impact of New End-to-End Machine Dubbing Tech May Be Widespread
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 Reaches 2M Daily Translations, Seeks Capital to Fuel Growth
Lingvanex is seeking a seed round of $1M to continue expanding in B2B market Continue reading
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Meet the New Owners of MT Provider SYSTRAN
French machine translation provider SYSTRAN has a new owner, STIC Investments. Minority shareholders include SoftBank Korea, others. Plans M&A. Continue reading
Facebook Researchers Say Machine Translation Quality Estimation Lacking
New research suggests biases of QE datasets lead to guesstimates on machine translation quality. Researchers propose modified dataset, debut it at WMT 2020. Continue reading
EU Parliament Awards Translated With Contract for Automatic Speech Translation
LSP Translated says automatic speech translation prototype to be delivered to Parliament within 12 months with two other solutions. EU to name best-performing solution official tool for two years. Continue reading
Salesforce Just Open-Sourced a Large, XML-Tagged Machine Translation Dataset
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
Egypt Inks Machine Translation, NLP Deal with China’s iFlytek
Chinese speech recognition and AI provider iFlytek signs R&D deal with Egypt’s ICT Ministry to develop natural language processing and machine translation solutions. Continue reading
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Intento Raises USD 3m Seed Round as MT Curation Industry Accelerates
California-based machine translation company Intento raises USD 3m in seed round as development of fledgling machine translation curation further accelerates. Continue reading
Pro Guide: How to Run a Translation and Localization RFP
Slator’s 25-page “How to Run a Translation and Localization RFP” is a key tool for translation & localization buyers, with lists, insights, guidance on qualifying vendors and streamlining procurement. Continue reading
How Netflix Researchers Simplify Subtitles for Translation
A group of Netflix machine learning engineers explore the use of back-translations to simplify subtitle source sentences and improve machine translation output. Continue reading
Apple Scientists Go on a ‘Quest Toward Overcoming’ Speech Translation
Two research scientists from Apple surveyed 30 years worth of research into speech translation and here’s what they found. Continue reading
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