As more language service providers explore data collection and annotation, a new study shows large language models generate more diverse content, while humans excel at rating it. Continue reading
Diego Cresceri, CEO of Creative Words, joins SlatorPod to discuss growing their LSP through marketing, the price pressure of PEMT, and becoming the President of Elia. Continue reading
In Q3 2021, AppTek will launch a machine translation system that can toggle between nuances of style, gender, domain, topic, length, dialect, context, and glossaries. Continue reading
'Many open roles'—look who’s hiring! Email no longer ‘feels like millions.’ For PEMT, what’s a reasonable speed and will hiring subject-matter experts fluent only in the target language become a thing? Continue reading
Court says an LSP’s use of Google Translate could mean a gross violation of professional practices and a client’s IP rights; ruling defines what constitutes a ‘professional translator.’ Continue reading
Berlin-based startup Lengoo raises USD 20m Series B on thesis that custom machine translation combined with human-in-the-loop service can outcompete incumbent language service providers. Continue reading
Translation management tech and marketplace provider Smartcat raises USD 14.6m in Series B; 2020 set to become banner year for language industry investment. Continue reading
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
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
European Language Industry Survey 2020 reveals what’s top of mind for language service providers and freelancers amid current coronavirus crisis. Continue reading
At SlatorCon Amsterdam 2019, One Hour Translation’s Yaron Kaufman shared his strategy for showing customers why now is the time to adopt machine translation. Continue reading
LSPs moving toward hourly rates for linguists? Edit distance a viable metric long-term? Are regulations important to translation demand? Will Rev recover from bad press over transcriptionist pay cuts? Continue reading
As the language industry becomes more and more competitive, what are universities doing to ensure that their translation students are ready to enter the marketplace? Continue reading
As the language industry transitions to an operating model where the first draft is mostly generated by machines, many are looking for ways to quantify linguists' value-add. Edit-distance can help. Continue reading
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