Localization Professionals Mourn the Demise of Microsoft’s Language Portal
To own or not to own (i.e., license) language tech; language companies plan to incorporate GPT into workflow; translators mourn “go-to resource” Microsoft Language Portal.
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Zapier Integrates OpenAI’s ‘Disruptive’ Transcription and Translation Whisper API
Zapier now allows users to transcribe and translate audio from 98 languages into English text. Developers experiment with song lyric extraction and subtitle creation.
Translation and Localization Industry Maintains Growth in 2022 to USD 27.9bn
Highlights from Slator’s 2023 Language Industry Market Report, OpenAI to trademark GPT, and a Swiss NLP corner with new research, debates and launches.
Forget “LocalizeGPT”: OpenAI Hunts Down Companies Using Trademarked GPT in Brand
OpenAI enforces branding policies and sends messages with tight deadlines through a third party for companies using GPT as part of their name or product marks to change them.
ChatGPT, Translation, and Confidentiality — ‘We May Use the Data’
Open AI updates data usage policies after a March 2023 data breach, states content sent via API will not be used to train LLMs, but consumer ChatGPT not included in terms.
“You Are a Machine Translation System” — How to Improve ChatGPT’s Translations
New research identifies ideal temperature, prompts to bridge gap between conversation and translation; authors warn of ChatGPT’s “hallucinations” in non-English pairs.
Translators, Interpreters Among Most ‘Vulnerable’ to Large Language Models, OpenAI Says
New research by OpenAI and University of Pennsylvania: GPT-4 and human annotators quantify the overlap between LLM capabilities and tasks for more than 1,000 jobs.
GPT-4 Launch Promises Surprising New Use Cases
OpenAI releases its much anticipated GPT-4 large language model. Here’s a short primer on its language, problem-solving, and multimodal capabilities for real-world applications.
Here Are Six Practical Use Cases for the New Whisper API
OpenAI's Whisper model is now available through an API. Language SaaS builders and enterprises can benefit from cutting-edge transcription and the convenience of on-demand access.
How Supertranslate is Profitable at $100 Monthly Recurring Revenue
How powerful large language models and serverless GPU infrastructure have slashed the cost for a new generation of creators to build fully functional micro SaaS products.
Tencent Pits ChatGPT Translation Quality Against DeepL and Google Translate
Research by Tencent AI Lab compares ChatGPT’s performance in machine translation with Google Translate, DeepL, and Tencent’s TranSmart.
Intento CEO Outlines Seven Stages of Machine Translation Adoption
At SlatorCon Remote December 2022, Konstantin Savenkov, CEO at Intento, on machine translation bottlenecks, value drivers, ROI, and the future of the global language market.
We Prompted ChatGPT to be a Translation Manager
How we used a script from ChatGPT, an avatar from Synthesia, and captions from Descript to produce an AI-generated video.
We Asked ChatGPT Questions About the Language Industry…It Had a Lot to Say
OpenAI disrupts the AI and LLM space once again with ChatGPT, reaching over one million users in just five days. See what the app told Slator about the language industry.
Deepgram: From Dark Matter to Deep Learning Speech API With Scott Stephenson
Deepgram CEO, Scott Stephenson, on scaling state-of-the-art speech API for enterprise and next-gen AI platforms, response to Whisper, and future of voice AI.
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