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Life sciences could be slowly warming to machine translation, but not for all cases, a poll showed. Mixed views on YouTube enabling MT for comments; and the sudden interest in voice assistant tech.
As Facebook and Google pour their own money into research on speech translation, investors outside the language industry turn their attention to multilingual voice assistants.
Israel-based LSP, BLEND, buys US-based GM Voices, voice localization provider that recorded Siri. CEO says deal was culmination of an 18-month search for an ace to help penetrate voice market.
Jargon raises USD 1.8m for voice app content management and localization with support from the Amazon Alexa Fund and other investors.
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