Ireland’s Translit Acquired by Private Equity-Backed Valorem Group – slator.com
Irish interpreting software firm, TRANSLIT, has announced that it has been acquired by UK-based Valorem Group. As part of the deal, TRANSLIT will merge with fellow Valorem Group member and interpreting services provider, DA Languages. The Group stated that through the deal, DA Languages will be able to leverage Translit’s remote simultaneous interpreting platform for […]
Trustpoint.One Acquires UK Interpreting Provider Enable2 – slator.com
Atlanta, Georgia-headquartered legal solutions provider Trustpoint.One has acquired UK interpreting company Enable2. The deal, which closed in June 2024, is Trustpoint.One’s second UK acquisition, following the purchase of translation agency Balthasar Ltd. at the end of 2023. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Trustpoint.One’s other recent acquisitions include Confluent Translations (2018), Commit Global […]
AI Translation ‘Extremely Unsuitable’ for Manga, Japan Association of Translators Says – slator.com
AI as a term and concept has become unavoidable across professional fields, not least within the language industry. But now yet another professional association has challenged the notion of where and how, exactly, AI will fit in the picture. The Japan Association of Translators (JAT) issued a bilingual statement in June 2024 to express “strong […]
Sony’s DubWise Uses Visual Cues from the Video to Improve AI Dubbing – slator.com
In a June 13, 2024 paper, researchers from Sony Research India and the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) introduced DubWise, a method designed to synchronize dubbed audio with the visual content of a video. DubWise employs a multimodal approach that combines large language models (LLMs) for text-to-speech (TTS) with visual cues from the video. […]
German Language Services Provider Landexx Files for Bankruptcy – slator.com
According to a court filing flagged across a number of German legal aggregation sites, language services provider (LSP) Landexx has filed for bankruptcy. Information on the LSP is now hard to come by, with Landexx’s website apparently out of commission. As a private company, Landexx’s annual financial reports are not readily available to the public, […]
AWS Presents a New Dataset for Multi-Modal Document Translation – slator.com
In a June 12, 2024 paper, researchers from AWS AI Labs, the University of Maryland, and the Nara Institute of Science and Technology presented M3T, a multi-modal benchmark dataset designed to evaluate machine translation (MT) systems for translating visually rich, semi-structured documents. The researchers explained that most document-level MT systems focus on textual content at […]
From Isolation to Inclusion, Interpreters Unlimited Urges Equal Education with Language Services – slator.com
SAN DIEGO, June 21, 2024 – As most schools have already ended their ’23-’24 school year, it’s time to look ahead and prepare for the ’24-’25 academic year. Imagine a Non-English speaking student joining your school mid-year without an interpreter—struggling to understand lessons, feeling isolated, and missing out on crucial education, it happened this year in […]
Google Shares Current View on Using AI for Website Translation – slator.com
In the latest edition of Google’s SEO Office Hours video series, a company representative gave an update on the search giant’s take on AI-generated translations for multilingual websites. The series, led by Google’s Search Relations Team Lead, John Mueller, answers questions from users about website crawling, indexing, and internationalization. One user asked, “how can one […]
Lionbridge Debuts Lionbridge Aurora AI™, the AI-Powered Orchestration Platform – slator.com
New Translation Management System optimizes workflow automation at scale for localization and beyond Waltham, MA, USA – June 18, 2024 – Lionbridge, a global leader in games, AI services, and translation and localization solutions, today introduced AuroraAI, its state-of-the-art AI-powered content orchestration platform. By combining the latest in generative AI (GenAI) technology with the smart allocation of […]
US Doctors Review ChatGPT and Google Translate for Medical Translations – slator.com
A group of physicians from multiple Boston, USA, area hospitals researched the use of ChatGPT and Google Translate in a small study, reporting their findings in a paper published on June 11, 2024. Specifically, the physicians wanted to find out how well these technologies work for the translation of pediatric discharge instructions compared to professional […]