Zoom Opts for Speech-to-Text in New Transcription and Translation Features
Zoom call add-ons planned for beta release in September 2021. Transcription available in 30 languages, and translation, in 12, by year-end 2022. Continue reading
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Facebook Takes a Stab at True Speech-to-Speech Translation via Textless NLP
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
Google Ups Ante in Speech-to-Speech Translation With ‘Robust’ Translatotron 2
Google researchers say Translatotron 2 outperforms original in terms of speech-to-speech translation quality and naturalness. Plus the new version prevents users from generating speech for deepfakes. Continue reading
Zoom Bolts on Speech Translation in What Is Only Its Second-Ever Acquisition
Zoom acquires German simultaneous speech translation provider, Kites, to provide multilingual speech translation to Zoom users; explores opening R&D center in Germany. Continue reading
Here’s Europe’s Latest Attempt at End-to-End Speech Translation
European Live Translator (ELITR) takes speech-to-speech translation one step further, backed by the academe, private sector, and government. Continue reading
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Match.com Pays a Cool USD 1.7 Billion for Startup Built on Google Translation API
Dating powerhouse Match Group (Match.com) makes biggest purchase to date: Korean tech startup Hyperconnect; pays USD 1.73bn or about 8.6x 2020 revenues for app built on Google Translation API. Continue reading
Now on GitHub: New Speech-to-speech Translation Toolkit
Japanese researcher-developers created an open-source all-in-one speech-to-speech translation toolkit to help machine translation researchers, and it’s publicly available on GitHub. Continue reading
Apple Scientists Go on a ‘Quest Toward Overcoming’ Speech Translation
Two research scientists from Apple surveyed 30 years worth of research into speech translation and here’s what they found. Continue reading
Machine Dubbing: Amazon AI Opens New Chapter in Automating Media Localization
Team of Amazon AI researchers combines various deep-learning models to build automatic dubbing system. Viewer feedback reveals unnaturalness of speaking rate as main problem. Continue reading
Machine Translation and ASR Provider AppTek Buys Speech Tech Firm Ignite-Tek
MT and speech recognition company AppTek expands natural language understanding (NLU) capabilities with acquisition of speech technology provider Ignite-Tek. Continue reading
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Machine Translation for Consumers: China’s Youdao Seeks to Raise 300m in US IPO
Chinese e-learning provider Youdao files to go public in New York, seeking to raise USD 300m. Youdao’s suite of products centers around online dictionaries and machine translation tools. Continue reading
From Hype to API: Baidu Productizes Speech-to-Speech Translation
Baidu launches API for speech-to-speech translation based on technology outlined in late-2018 research paper, which was criticized at the time for overpromising. Continue reading
Slator 2019 Language Industry Market Report
Slator’s inaugural comprehensive language industry market report. It examines total market size, the 10 main end-buyer industries, competitive landscape, productivity tech, NMT and much more. Continue reading
Behold, the Translatotron! Google’s Latest Move in Speech Translation
Google researchers approach speech-to-speech translation a little differently in a proof-of-concept that completely takes away reference text, but underperforms compared to existing models. Continue reading
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