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
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
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
Several big names have already partnered with the virtual meeting platform to offer work “shortcuts,” including transcription, captions, and subtitles, via apps in Zoom. Continue reading
US and Chinese tech giants continue to churn out research on speech-to-text translation, machine translation for rare languages, and more. Time to check in. Continue reading
EU releases complete list of players in contract to automatically transcribe and translate multilingual parliamentary debates in real time; two consortia and Microsoft Belgium awarded for phase one. Continue reading
Facebook AI invites developers to improve a speech translation dataset and a open sources a toolkit that evaluates simultaneous speech and text translation. Continue reading
MT and speech recognition company AppTek expands natural language understanding (NLU) capabilities with acquisition of speech technology provider Ignite-Tek. Continue reading
Four college students harnessed recent Google Cloud releases to build a translation app that works offline and makes forms accessible to users with disabilities. Continue reading
UN asks vendors to pitch solutions for remote interpreting, neural machine translation, speech-to-text, etc. to secure one of 25 spots at January 2020 conferencing tech fair in Geneva. Continue reading
Technology giant Microsoft releases 2GB of audio, transcription, and translation corpus. Says it wants to create “the gold standard” to evaluate speech language translation, but admits that using... Continue reading
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