As competition with other streaming services heats up, Netflix rolls out limited selection of Android games to maintain subscriber interest. Game localizers should take note. Continue reading
ByteDance publishes research examining whether synthesized human speech could come close to the “impressive ability” of professional voice actors in dubbing. Continue reading
Netflix’s first European production hub opens in Madrid; Apple expands its AI/ML work in Barcelona; Spanish PM pledges more than EUR 1.6bn for the country’s audiovisual sector. Continue reading
Helped in no small part by lockdowns, the world’s streaming giants can take credit for the broadened palate for foreign content of its English-speaking customers — who now clamor for better dubbing. Continue reading
Netflix pilots new localization workflow to streamline subtitling and dubbing using TTAL; says specification for scripts ‘benefits the entire localization ecosystem.’ Continue reading
David Lee, CEO of media localization provider Iyuno-SDI, on expanding scale, scope, and capacity to thrive in the new era of global content distribution. Continue reading
Here’s your take on Netflix’s non-English content, Apple hiring people for their voices in many languages, changing jobs in 2021, and machine-generated voices going mainstream. Continue reading
Team of Amazon researchers uses synthetically introduced errors to model a new way of identifying the over and under translation of human translated video subtitles. Continue reading
Netflix’s Internationalization team built the Shakespeare tool to improve testing of UI copy, built into their apps by their coders, in dozens of languages. Continue reading
Former Netflix exec and now Managing Director of EGA Chris Fetner joins to discuss media localization. And Florian and Esther debate the "LSP Dying Zone". Continue reading
The world’s largest media entertainment companies joined forces to create a language metadata table (LMT), with more than 200 entries, to help manage localized video content. Continue reading
A group of Netflix machine learning engineers explore the use of back-translations to simplify subtitle source sentences and improve machine translation output. Continue reading
Amazon Prime Video researchers have developed a new quality estimation system for subtitle translations, which tells you when post-editing or rewrites are needed. Continue reading
Just in time: ZOO Digital closes two contracts for its new localization management and cloud-dubbing platforms as legacy DVD and Blu-ray business trends towards zero. Continue reading
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