Unpacking DeepL’s turbo growth; and Welocalize AI Innovation VP, Olga Beregovaya, joins the Pod to discuss the evolution of NLP, the state of AI, and global content transformation. Continue reading
Facebook sees textless natural language processing (NLP) as rendering automatic speech translation (ASR) obsolete by working in true end-to-end fashion: from speech input to speech output. Continue reading
Switzerland-based machine translation provider, TextShuttle, promotes Software Engineer, Lucas Seiler, to CEO. Seiler on their business model and growth opportunities. Continue reading
Translators should start learning how to write computer code, said the majority of poll respondents. But nearly half believe that creative machine translation is a non-starter. Continue reading
Students of linguistics will likely run into Python, the most popular programming language for learning translation technology today given its user-friendliness and ubiquity. Continue reading
What makes a buyer stay with a language service provider for over 17 years? Dell’s Wayne Bourland and Welocalize’s Darin Goble on the longstanding partnership between the two companies. Continue reading
While Covid’s impact on clients’ priorities limited Appen’s revenue growth to 12%, the data-for-AI giant hopes new clients and the Chinese market will boost future performance. Continue reading
Scientists propose new system to standardize automatic evaluation of NLP systems by adding humans in the loop; encourage fellow researchers to submit text generation models for evaluation. Continue reading
Flitto provides multilingual corpus, speech, and image data to train AI engines in 25 different languages, covering a number of domains including conversational, colloquial, and medical. Continue reading
AI21 Labs, maker of Wordtune, raises USD 25m in funding. Brings total funds raised to USD 34.5m, after previous 2019 seed round. Both rounds led by Israel-based VC, Pitango First. Continue reading
Italy-listed natural language processing provider Expert System raises USD 29.4m in share placement; hires two C-level execs to drive Sales and Marketing. Continue reading
Select users test OpenAI’s 175-billion-parameter language model GPT-3 in private beta and light up Twitter with examples of its output. Could it impact the language industry? Continue reading
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
Language services provider to the US government SOS International (SOSi) acquires minority stake in machine translation and speech recognition provider AppTek. Continue reading
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