A couple weeks ago, we posted a news update about the London-based NeuralSpace raising 1.7 million USD in a seed round. A SaaS (Software as a Service) platform offering groundbreaking applications for 87 languages, many of which are low-resource languages,[...]

By now, most of us are accustomed to auto-generated subtitles on YouTube videos. Some of us might miss the good old days of community captions and wonder why that feature ever left the platform (this post on Data Horde is[...]

In her lecture, “The World as India,” Susan Sontag notes that “translation is the circulatory system of the world’s literatures.” The translation she refers to here is literary translation—that branch of translation so often revered as the highest among its[...]

Emmersion and the Rise of AI-Powered Language Evaluation In a 2020 report, staff writers of the Customer Contact Week give four reasons why language testing for companies—especially ones like contact centers—is a challenging, strenuous process for which companies don’t readily[...]

2022 Translation Technology Summit to Take Place in Silicon Valley After two years of virtual conferences, the Translation Technology Summit (XTM)—one of the world’s biggest localization technology events—resumes in-person events with XTM LIVE 2022. The conference will take place in[...]

Introducing Google Pathways Last October, Google Research’s senior vice president Jeff Dean introduced Pathways to the rest of the world. An AI architecture that can piece together previous knowledge to solve new tasks, Pathways is a work in progress whose[...]