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
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
Private equity firm CataCap Partner and LanguageWire Deputy Chairman tells SlatorCon Zurich 2018 why CataCap invested in the Danish language service provider and decided to back its recent acquisition of Xplanation. Continue reading
Pharma and biotech giant Roche’s Claudine Nick outlined the internal and external complexities of localizing for this highly regulated industry and highlighted the value-add of having an internal language services team. 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
SlatorCon Zurich 2018 hosts execs, investors, and buyers to discuss the industry and for exclusive networking Continue reading
The readers have spoken on topics ranging from governments supporting linguist training and education, post-editing machine translation, current demand for Asian languages, and the 2019 outlook Continue reading
Executives from Wordbee, GoPro, and Tencent discussed a number of key issues at SlatorCon San Francisco 2018 during the Technology Panel, and one takeaway was the limitations of neural machine translation. Continue reading
memoQ CEO Norbert Oroszi reflects on augmented translation and how human engagement, training and personalization will shape the future of translation technology. Continue reading
The startup panel at SlatorCon San Francisco had CEOs and Co-Founders from Boostlingo, Cadence Translate, and Wovn sharing exclusive data points, unique experiences, and hard-learned lessons. Continue reading
Cyracom Chairman and CEO Jeremy Woan talks at SlatorCon San Francisco 2018 about how RFP due diligence is becoming ever more stringent, why video interpreting’s adoption is a conundrum, and how commoditization would affect the industry. Continue reading
SDL CEO Adolfo Hernandez told SlatorCon how the recent acquisition of Donnelley Language Solutions is SDL’s transparent play for premium industries such as finance, legal and life sciences and how those verticals are positioned for growth. Continue reading
Anna Schlegel, Head of Globalization at cloud storage company NetApp, spoke at SlatorCon San Francisco 2018 about raising the profile of localization in the company and how the team used champions across the business to create 17 globalized products and 13 globalized departments. Continue reading
We are going to have to attract and retain amazing talent to future proof the language industry’s workforce. Quora’s Lupe Gervas on how to take risks in hiring for localization teams able to cater to the next 1 billion users. Continue reading
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