On August 3, 2023, Denmark-headquartered language service provider (LSP) LanguageWire announced it has acquired Finnish translation and interpreting provider Delingua. The terms of the transaction, which closed on July 31, 2023, are undisclosed. Delingua focuses on providing t...

Machine translation (MT) systems are mostly designed to serve the business-to-business and business-to-consumer domains. With machine translation’s increased sophistication, researchers are now taking on the final frontier of literary translation. Zeynep Yirmibeşoğlu, Olgun Du...

In a June 21, 2023 proposal, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) pitched expanded language access for wireless emergency alerts (WEAs), the automated text messages cell phone users receive related to geographically-targeted severe weather events. Participation in the W...

In an anachronistic quirk of artificial intelligence (AI), people may soon be able to see a new play by Lope de Vega, one of the foremost writers of Spain’s Golden Age. And no, this is not yet another case of ChatGPT being taken too far — it was written by the playwright himse...

By BLISS (Brazilian Language Industry Association) Aug 25 to Aug 26 Hotel Bourbon Ibirapuera – São Paulo BLISS (Brazilian Language Industry Association), Brazil’s first association of language companies, was established in 2021 with the primary goal of fostering and preserving...

English into many other languages is a common enough request in the world of localization. But for SaaS provider Language I/O, that translation usually needs to take place in real time, with minimal human involvement. Language I/O uses machine translation (MT) to enable monoli...

In a paper published in June 2023, researchers Jasper Roe of James Cook University, Willy A. Renandya of Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University, and George M. Jacobs of Universiti Malaya examine the use of digital tools in academic writing, including machine translation ...

On July 21, 2023, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) announced that it will be offering a two-year Master of Arts Translation degree program starting in the 2023/2024 winter semester. The deadline for submission of applications is September 1, 2023. JGU is considered on...

In this week’s SlatorPod, we are joined by Florian Stègre, Founder of Checksub, to discuss how the SaaS platform powers subtitling and dubbing for SMEs and enterprise clients. Florian’s entrepreneurial journey began after graduating from business school and founding video prod...

Large language models (LLMs) are capable of tackling a diverse array of language tasks ranging from text classification and sentiment analysis to information extraction and summarization. Their potential for changing workflows, resources, and market dynamics within the transla...

CIBC Innovation Banking, a Toronto-based funding arm of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, has extended Prague-headquartered localization SaaS provider Phrase EUR 12m in debt financing (venture debt), according to a July 19, 2023 press release. While details of the deal w...

Meta is back with a new large language model (LLM) — Llama 2, which was released via a research paper published in July 2023. Llama 2 is the successor to Llama 1, which Meta introduced in February 2023. In a move that Yann LeCun, VP and Chief AI Scientist at Meta, described as...

In this week’s SlatorPod, we are joined by Graham Neubig, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, to discuss his research on multilingual natural language processing (NLP) and machine translation (MT). Graham discusses the research at NeuLab, whe...

India, a country known for its linguistic diversity, is making progress in the field of language services. Recent advancements in machine translation (MT) and interpretation are set to enhance communication and accessibility across the country’s vast linguistic landscape. On J...

ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, is stepping up in the speech-to-speech translation (S2S) game with its newly proposed PolyVoice – a language model-based framework. Announced in a research paper on June 13, 2023, the China-based tech company introduces a decoder-only model...

In a panel discussion moderated by Andrew Smart, Slator Co-Founder and Commercial Director, DeepL Customer Success VP Céline Daley, FIFA’s Wilma Ritter (Head of Language Center) and Marco Studer (PM, Translation Technologist, and German Translator) explored how the governing b...

Translated, the company that brought ModernMT to the language industry market, is known as a language technology innovator. But as AI dominates the conversation in the language industry in 2023, the company is also keen on demonstrating that the technological questions are not...

The long-expected Unitary Patent (UP) system in Europe came into effect on June 1st, 2023. Over a decade in the making, it is a significant development in the world of patents. It was created to streamline patent processing, and the European Commission characterizes it as a sy...

A May 2023 report from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) found that despite legal obligations to provide meaningful language access for individuals with limited English proficiency (LEP), many criminal justice-related organizations and agencies struggle to quantify ne...

Ownership of Sandberg Translation Partners is now in the hands of its employees — more than 100 of them. The UK-based language service provider (LSP) was previously owned by sole shareholders Jesper Sandberg and Anu Carnegie-Brown, and became an employee-owned trust (EOT) in M...

Microsoft Language Portal, a multilingual online dictionary for IT translation and localization, is to shut down on June 30, 2023.

Hundreds of companies riding on the all-access AI wagon have been using GPT in their products for the past three years. Hundreds more have emerged or created new brands using not just the technology, but also the vernacular ChatGPT, as well as the GPT, GPT3, and GPT4 acronyms...

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In this week’s SlatorPod, we are joined by Christian Federmann, Principal Research Manager at Microsoft, where he works on machine translation (MT) evaluation and language expansion.

As the world becomes more interconnected, translation technology plays an increasingly important role in facilitating communication across language barriers. With the rapid development of new tools and techniques for machine translation, staying informed about the latest trend...

OpenAI’s most accurate speech-to-text model, Whisper, has now been released through their API, providing developers with access to cutting-edge transcription capabilities. #languagetranslation #localizationindustrynews #slatorpod #languagedata #slator #slatornews #languagetech...

Toolkit for product labeling with a rundown of regulatory requirements for products sold in the US, Canada, Mexico, and Europe.

World Intellectual Property Organization accepting applications from grad students for 2023 translation, terminology, and tech fellowships.

OpenAI recently unveiled the AI conversation interface ChatGPT. ChatGPT is a large language model using GPT-3.5 technology and has been trained on a massive amount of data — including, apparently, manual finetuning and training.