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University of Bologna at Forlì launches free, open-source, online training platform for remote simultaneous interpreters. 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
Virtual assistants are already part of the e-commerce setting, but taking them multilingual and training them for conversations with multiple variables still poses challenges. Continue reading
EU Institutions publish paper on language technologies and AI, as most EU translation departments now use NMT and provide machine translated output to their linguists. Continue reading
Natural language processing and neural MT feature heavily as Facebook discusses developments in artificial intelligence at their developer conference F8 2019. Continue reading
How a simple language-learning shortcut using Google Translate went viral and inspired newbie app localizers to try a DIY approach to localization. Continue reading
As NLP developments march on unabated, recent news reflects the state of research, investor excitement, and production deployment levels for current technologies. Continue reading
Language industry startups Unbabel and Lilt took to the stage at one of Europe’s largest machine learning conferences and explained how they build atop evermore sophisticated AI tech. Continue reading
US research agency IARPA is conducting an open competition under one of its main programs that challenges participants to build a system where users search audio and text documents in... Continue reading
A rundown of the translation and interpretation gadgets and earpieces presented at the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Continue reading
As language data becomes increasingly prominent in the age of neural networks and machine learning, a number of use cases highlight the need for high quality training data, such as South Korea’s... Continue reading
An interpreter accused multi-billion listed company of passing off human interpretation as the output of its AI translation engine on social media. The post sparked off a media frenzy questioning... Continue reading
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