27 Students Beat over 3,000 of Their Peers to Win the Young Translators Contest – slator.com

The 27 winners of the 2024-25 European Union (EU) young translators’ competition were announced on February 13, 2025. The 17th edition of the annual competition, officially known as “Juvenes Translatores,” had 3070 participants this time, 187 more than the previous edition. Students born in 2007 and representing 713 schools across the 27 Member States translated […]

Is Machine Translation Post-Editing Tedious? – slator.com

The language industry will remember 2024 as bringing an interesting mix of rapid-fire innovations and developments, with some clear trends emerging on the technology side, including translation as a feature (TaaF), multimodal AI adoption, retrieval augmented generation (RAG) applications, and large language model (LLM) customization. The balance between human expertise and AI automation continued to […]

The Year in Review and 2025 Predictions! – slator.com

In the 2024 year-end episode of SlatorPod, hosts Florian Faes and Esther Bond, along with guest Anna Wyndham, explore pivotal language industry trends from the past year and predictions for 2025. First, the language industry news of the week, with LXT’s acquisition of clickworker, which aims to expand its AI data capabilities and potentially double […]

Will Language Service Providers Finally Change Pricing Models in 2025? – slator.com

2024 ends with a second Trump administration about to take office in the United States. Trump’s election campaign made immigration a central issue and promised stricter immigration controls. As voters went to the polls, the 2023 American Community Survey (ACS) data release revealed a significant increase in the number of non-English speakers in the US, […]