A rundown of the translation and interpretation gadgets and earpieces presented at the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Continue reading
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Charging clients per word but paying translators by the hour? Most anticipated language industry conferences? Top NMT contender DeepL’s fate in the next three years? And which megatrends will shape the market in 2019? Here are the results of our poll. Continue reading
Iconic gets a new Marketing Manager, Global Lingo appoints an interim Head of Translation and Interpretation, Livewords appoints a new Business Development Manager, Lionbridge places another key executive position in the role of Head of Sales, APAC, and Ubiqus USA welcomes a new Vice President of Sales, Translation Division. Continue reading
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A+E Networks UK localizes 12,000 hours of subtitles and 4,000 hours of audio annually and sees opportunities in the over-the-top media boom as well as heightened expectations from neural machine translation. Continue reading
Amazon adds a custom terminology feature, Microsoft rolls out custom NMT, and IBM’s Watson Language Translator now preserves document formatting between source and target text. Continue reading
Francesco Bombassei, Senior Technical Program Manager at Google, presented at SlatorCon and discussed AutoML Translate, how ever accelerating computing power impacts development, and the human and technological challenges in machine learning. Continue reading
Ubiqus CEO Vincent Nguyen walked SlatorCon participants through Ubiqus’ one-and-a-half year journey towards implementing neural machine translation in production and how they are encouraging internal and external stakeholders to get onboard. Continue reading
Fast-growing German machine translation provider DeepL sells 13.6% stake to Silicon Valley venture capital firm Benchmark Capital as usage continues to accelerate. Continue reading
SlatorCon Zurich 2018 featured language industry experts from big tech, life sciences, language services, private equity and investment banking, hosting speakers from Google, Roche, Ubiqus, LanguageWire and Raymond James, as well as Slator’s own Florian Faes. Continue reading
Through five case studies and nearly 30 commentaries from the buy (enterprise, government, and more)- and sell-side (LSPs), this report shines a light on the sentiment of industry practitioners towards current-state NMT technology. Continue reading
After October IPO in Australia Straker Translations posts half-year results. Six months pro-forma revenues grew to USD 9.1m and adjusted EBITDA shows a slight profit. Company says their freelance English to French freelancers average 1,000 words per hour and earn USD 28 per hour. Continue reading
Intento (https://inten.to) has evaluated six domain-adaptive Neural Machine Translation systems for English-to-German translation (Medical domain) and published the report. Continue reading
The demand for high quality language data to train machine learning systems including neural machine translation is fuelling a growth curve for providers Appen, Flitto, and others. Continue reading
The US government is asking for public comment to determine whether a range of “emerging technologies,” including machine translation, are essential to national security and should be subject to export controls. Continue reading
Top US university Carnegie Mellon, known for its natural language processing and neural machine translation research, has launched a new Master’s program in Global Communication and Applied Translation, designed to train translators of the future. Continue reading
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