The Slator 2025 Language Industry Market Report provides a comprehensive view of the global market for language solutions and language technology — an addressable market of USD 31.70 billion in 2025, according to Slator.

This expanded framework, introduced for the first time in this report, captures buyer spend on translation, localization, dubbing, subtitling, captions, multilingual content generation, and accessibility across text, audio, video, and live interactions.

We show how Language Technology Platforms (LTPs) and Language Solutions Integrators (LSIs) enable language transformation through fully automated, expert-in-the-loop, and human-led delivery models.

Slator’s framework captures a step-change in language capabilities. Recent AI advances have driven performance breakthroughs in language AI models and sparked a proliferation of new possibilities for converting and generating speech and text, orchestrating language workflows, and adapting language outputs.

These new capabilities are transforming both supply and demand. Suppliers are rethinking how they go to market, converge solutions and platforms, and capture value. Buyers are shifting how they use language to access markets, acquire customers, engage audiences, comply with regulations, extract insights, and manage people and processes.

To make sense of this evolving landscape, Slator breaks the market down into 15 verticals — spanning enterprise, government, and media — and maps the key demand drivers and use cases behind language-related spend.

We examine how foundational AI builders — such as OpenAI, AWS, and Google — both enable and reshape the market, and explore the disruptive potential of Translation as a Feature (TaaF), where general tech platforms embed language capabilities into their core products.

A deep dive into Language Technology Platforms (LTPs) includes market sizing by capability, segment maturity, and growth trajectory. We spotlight top growth areas and analyze leading players, challengers, personalization strategies, and the race for category leadership, backed by Slator’s buyer and provider survey data.

A chapter on Language Solutions Integrators (LSIs) analyzes how service providers are repositioning around AI — blending proprietary tools, platform partnerships, and expert services to solve complex language problems across multilingual content and live events. As LSIs move toward more centralized, high-leverage roles, we assess the market opportunity for providers that integrate technology and human expertise to deliver managed language outcomes at scale.

Our competitive landscape analysis examines how LTPs and LSIs are navigating value chains, capturing workflow ownership, building strategic moats, and forming new buyer–supplier partnerships. Case studies and buyer–vendor pairings illustrate how end-to-end solutions are evolving.

We dedicate a chapter to live AI speech translation — an area of accelerating demand — and highlight how buyers are responding to AI captioning and speech output options, alongside human interpreting, to support multilingual live events and interactions.

Drawing on a survey of over 500 linguists, we put the spotlight on how AI is reshaping linguist roles, skill expectations, and career trajectories — and what that means for the next generation of talent in the language industry.

Finally, we provide market projections through 2030, modeling how solutions-led vs. technology-led growth will shape overall market trajectory and structure.

The language industry has long led in AI adoption. AI translation is already deeply embedded, with human roles evolving and workflows restructured for the AI era.

Now, focus is expanding to a broader set of applications — spanning text, audio, video, and live interactions — as organizations seek faster, higher-quality, and more adaptive language outcomes.

This framework clarifies how value is currently structured — and how it is shifting — across the industry. It guides buyers in aligning solutions to goals, helps investors track accelerating spend, and enables suppliers to position for growth.

Amid profound technological change, this report serves as a vital strategic lens for the language industry.

How to Use This Report

Slator’s comprehensive 2025 Language Industry Market Report offers the very latest industry and data analysis, providing language solutions integrators, language technology platforms, language buyers, and investors the confidence to make informed and time-critical decisions. It is a cost-effective, credible resource for busy professionals.

Table of Contents

Language Industry Market Framework	6
Expanding the Scope Degree of Automation How the Industry Delivers: LTPs and LSIs The Language Industry Stack Foundational AI What’s Changed — And Why It Matters The Role of This Framework	6 7 8 9 10 11 11
Market Size & Scope	12
Legacy Market: 2023–2024 Performance 2024 Newly Scoped Market Top-Level Sectors 2025–2030 Outlook Methodology Inclusions and Exclusions Market Analysis Framework	13 14 15 16 16 17 19
Market Size by Vertical	20
Media Verticals Industry Verticals Government & Institutions Buyer Personas	23 24 26 27
Market Size by Geography	28
Market Size by Region	29
Buyer Use Cases and Demand	35
Use Cases & Demand by Vertical Use Cases: Aerospace & Defense Use Cases: Broadcast Use Cases: Creators Use Cases: Digital Media Use Cases: EdTech & Education Use Cases: Engineering & Manufacturing Use Cases: Film & Streaming Use Cases: Finance Use Cases: Gaming Use Cases: Government & Institutions Use Cases: Healthcare Use Cases: Pharmaceuticals & Biotech Use Cases: Professional Services Use Cases: Technology Use Cases: Travel & Retail	36 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52
Language Technology Platforms	53
Market Size Market Size by Language Capability High Growth Segments Market Positioning Trends in Product Development Client Customization & Personalization Extracting Value from Language AI Top Challenges Facing LTPs in 2025 Outlook	54 54 57 62 63 63 64 66 67
Language Solutions Integrators	68
The LSI Landscape LSI Growth in 2024 Fastest Growing LSIs in 2024 AI Adoption Across LSIs in 2025 Delivery Models LSI Language AI Offerings LSI AI Positioning LSI Strategic Positioning Case Studies: LSI Positioning LSI Outlook & Opportunity	69 72 75 76 80 80 83 84 87 90
Competitive Landscape	92
Strategic Roles in the Ecosystem External Disruption: Foundational AI and TaaF Real-World Competitive Dynamics LSI — LTP Partnerships LTP — LTP Partnerships Translation as a Feature (TaaF) Live AI Speech Translation Linguists in 2025	93 95 96 98 99 100 114 121
Market Outlook to 2030	134
Appendices	139-150