Kinyarwanda Comes to the Forefront at ACL 2022
In our previous blog post, we introduced ACL 2022—the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics—and two papers featured there: one on the disambiguation bias benchmark DiBiMT and another on low-resource speech synthesis on Indigenous languages in Canada.[...]
Innovating Low-Resource Speech Synthesis & Combating Ambiguity at the ACL 2022
From May 22 to 27, students and researchers from all over the world gathered in Dublin—or stayed in the comforts of their homes—to attend the 60th annual Meeting of the Association for Computation Linguistics. The ACL is the most renowned[...]
New Speech-to-Speech Translation (S2ST) Paradigms for Spoken Languages
Earlier in the month, Meta AI highlighted an area of its research dealing with speech-to-speech translation. In an article titled “Advancing direct speech-to-speech modeling with discrete units,” Meta AI researchers Ann Lee and Juan Pino alongside product manager Jeff Wang[...]
Reimagining Machine Translation with MIT’s Hallucinatory VALHALLA
As we write this, the world is reeling from DALL-E 2: an OpenAI artificial intelligence program that, in the simplest terms, draws what you say. The Eiffel Tower enjoying a skinny dip? You got it. Midsommar, but make it cyberpunk?[...]
Meta’s Open-Source LLM, 24 New Languages for Google Translate, and Amazon NLP: Language Industry Updates for May 2022
We here at Sprok DTS hope everyone is having a beautiful spring. We are back with some exciting news in the language industry, which seems to forge ahead with brilliant new developments in the realm of machine translation despite all[...]
How Translation Will Enrich International Biological Research (and Hopefully, Save the World)
In early 2020—when COVID-19 was slowly making its way across the globe—Nintendo released Animal Crossing: New Horizons, a social simulation game that kept more than 37 million people around the world company. Ported specifically for the Nintendo Switch console, the[...]