How Well Does Llama 3.1 Perform for Text and Speech Translation? – slator.com

Meta’s research team introduced Llama 3.1 on July 23, 2023, calling it “the world’s largest and most capable openly available foundation model.” Llama 3.1 is available in various parameter sizes — 8B, 70B, and 405B — providing flexibility for deployment based on computational resources and specific application needs. On April 18, 2024, Meta announced the […]

Building an AI Video Localization Startup with Supernative Co-founder Paul Ghio – slator.com

Paul Ghio, Co-founder of AI video localization startup Supernative, joins SlatorPod to talk about how language AI is reshaping how we create and consume content globally. Paul shares how his passion for helping creators and his experience with internationalization at Shutterstock and Yelp led him to start Supernative, with a mission to democratize video localization […]

Translate.One Acquires Barcelona-Based Language Services Provider Intertext – slator.com

Atlanta, Georgia-based Translate.One, the language services division of legal solutions firm Trustpoint.One, has acquired language services provider (LSP) Intertext. The deal closed July 31, 2024. Intertext is the latest in Translate.One’s recent string of European acquisitions, beginning with Confluent Translations (2018), Commit Global (2022), and inWhatLanguage (March 2023). At the end of 2023, Translate.One snatched […]

WMT24 Pits LLMs Against NMT in Preliminary Ranking Based on Automatic Metrics – slator.com

The latest WMT24 analysis published on July 29, 2024, provides a preliminary ranking of general machine translation (MT) systems and large language models (LLMs).  The findings are based on two “top performing” automatic evaluation metrics: MetricX-23-XL, a reference-based metric, and CometKiwi-DA-XL, a quality estimation metric. The researchers explained that they intentionally selected two distinct automatic […]

How Popular is Machine Translation Post-Editing? – slator.com

On July 25, 2024, OpenAI announced the prototype version of SearchGPT, available only via waitlist. The move to asking an AI and getting an answer directly instead of a series of links to probe is very attractive. Whether the answer is correct or not is another matter.  A lot of content showing up in search […]

FCC to Require Improved Closed Captioning Accessibility for English and Spanish – slator.com

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has issued regulations requiring manufacturers and program distributors to make closed captioning display settings “readily accessible” to deaf and hard of hearing viewers. The Third Report and Order, titled “Accessibility of User Interfaces, and Video Programming Guides and Menus,” was adopted on July 18, 2024, with the stated goal […]

Language Industry Data and News Briefing August 2024 – slator.com

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Vimeo Adds AI Translation to Editing Suite – slator.com

The relentless pace of software companies rolling out translation AI as a feature continues unabated. Video hosting and sharing services provider, Vimeo, has announced the release of AI-enabled video translation and voice cloning features to its video platform. The company’s new AI-enabled translation functionality promises to “leverage generative AI to translate video, audio and captions […]