Lingua Custodia, Unbabel, Tilde, Textgain Win EC’s Large AI Grand Challenge – slator.com
The European Commission (EC) announced on June 26, 2024, the winners of the Large AI Grand Challenge contest, launched in 2023 as part of the European Union (EU) AI-BOOST project. AI-innovative startups and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) were invited to submit proposals from November 16, 2023, to February 13, 2024. Participating companies were competing […]
How ‘Pseudo-Refinement Triplets’ Can Improve Large Language Models in Translation – slator.com
In a June 22, 2024 paper, Zhaopeng Feng, Ruizhe Chen, Zijie Meng, and Zuozhu Liu from Zhejiang University, along with Yan Zhang from Tencent, presented “Ladder,” a model-agnostic and cost-effective tool designed to boost the performance of large language models (LLMs) in machine translation (MT). Unlike conventional methods that require extensive computing resources, significant data, […]
Study Finds Strong Correlation Between Expert and GPT-3.5 Interpreting Evaluations – slator.com
In a paper for the 2024 conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT), interpreting technology researchers Xiaoman Wang (University of Leeds) and Claudio Fantinuoli (University of Mainz and CTO at Kudo) find that prompting Open AI’s GPT-3.5 to assess the quality of translated speech approximates human evaluations. The research explores the correlation between […]
Argo Translation Partners With Language I/O to Eliminate Language Barriers on Demand – slator.com
The strategic partnership will allow for real-time AI translations backed by an exceptional customer service team. GLENVIEW, Ill., July 15, 2024 – Argo Translation, a Chicago-based language services company, announced today its partnership with Language I/O, a leading artificial intelligence (AI) translation technology provider. The partnership enables Argo Translation to resell Language I/O’s cutting-edge live […]
Language AI Briefing July 2024 – slator.com
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Can AI Agents Execute Complete Translation Workflows? – slator.com
In the period between May and July 2024, publicly listed game services and localization provider Keywords Studios has been in the news about possibly going private. It became known in May that Swedish private equity firm EQT had made a GBP 2.2bn (USD 2.8bn) offer for the company. And as of the publication of this […]
This Startup Promises to Deliver ‘Language Transposition’ to Universal Music Group – slator.com
Voice cloning is making inroads in an entertainment-adjacent industry: the music world. In a milestone agreement, SoundLabs AI, an AI music startup, will provide Universal Music Group’s extensive roster of musicians with a range of new technologies — including a “language transposition” feature. SoundLabs’ forthcoming feature, MicDrop, allows artists to use their own voices to […]
How Large Language Models Replace Neural Machine Translation with Unbabel’s João Graca – slator.com
João Graça, Co-founder and CTO of language operations platform Unbabel, joins SlatorPod to talk about the present and future of large language models (LLMs) and their broad impact across all things translation and localization. First, the CTO explains how Unbabel was founded to address language barriers for people using services like Airbnb, combining MT with […]
How AI Automation Can Fast-Track LQA – slator.com
Georg Ell, Phrase CEO, and Simone Bohnenberger-Rich, PhD, Chief Product Officer addressed SlatorCon Remote June 2024 attendees to discuss what can be achieved with AI-enabled automation in localization LQA. The Phrase executives answered questions related to the integration of AI into different offerings and the types of benefits to be gained through automation. To get […]
LanguageWire is Bringing Retrieval Augmented Generation to the Language Industry – slator.com
A new acronym is gaining ground in the language industry: Retrieval Augmented Generation, also known as RAG, a technique that uses prompting to instruct large language models (LLMs) with knowledge, data, and context. In other words, RAG is a sophisticated way of finding more relevant content in response to queries. If a client or language […]