Language AI Briefing February 2025 – slator.com

Slator is the leading source of research and market intelligence for translation, localization, interpreting, and language AI. Slator’s Advisory practice is a trusted partner to clients looking for M&A services and independent analysis. Slator has offices in Zurich (HQ) and London, and Analysts based in Asia, Europe, and the US. Source link

How Messagepoint Rolled out AI Translation as a Feature – slator.com

Toronto-based Messagepoint operates a documentation and workflow management platform in the client communications industry.  Founded in 1998, the company’s clients include Xerox and TD Bank, with many other customers in highly regulated fields, such as US health insurance. This particular specialization prodded Messagepoint to develop its Healthcare Touchpoint Exchange tool, part of a larger AI […]

Language AI Briefing December 2024 – slator.com

Slator is the leading source of research and market intelligence for translation, localization, interpreting, and language AI. Slator’s Advisory practice is a trusted partner to clients looking for M&A services and independent analysis. Slator has offices in Zurich (HQ) and London, and Analysts based in Asia, Europe, and the US. Source link

Sony Aims to Improve AI Translation for Indian Language Entertainment Content – slator.com

In a December 29, 2024 paper, researchers Pratik Rakesh Singh, Mohammadi Zaki, and Pankaj Wasnik from Sony Research India introduced a framework aimed at improving translations for entertainment content in Indian languages. They claim this is “the first of its kind,” using a blend of context awareness and style adaptation to produce translations that are […]

Language AI Briefing January 2025 – slator.com

Slator is the leading source of research and market intelligence for translation, localization, interpreting, and language AI. Slator’s Advisory practice is a trusted partner to clients looking for M&A services and independent analysis. Slator has offices in Zurich (HQ) and London, and Analysts based in Asia, Europe, and the US. Source link

How Microsoft Wants to Address Gender Bias in AI Speech Translation – slator.com

Gender bias in speech translation (ST) systems has long been a concern for researchers and users alike. In a January 10, 2025 paper, researchers from Microsoft Speech and Language Group presented their approach to addressing speaker gender bias in large-scale ST systems.  The researchers identified a persistent masculine bias in ST systems, even in cases […]

Alibaba Launches ‘Completely Revamped’ Translation Infrastructure – slator.com

Hangzhou (China)-based e-commerce and tech conglomerate Alibaba has announced that it has released a proprietary large language model (LLM) that is “better than products offered by Google, DeepL, and ChatGPT.” Shots fired. The proprietary LLM — known as “Marco MT” — is to be deployed across Alibaba’s existing translation offering launched last year to small […]

Google Finds ‘Refusal to Translate’ Most Common Form of LLM Verbosity – slator.com

In an October 1, 2024 paper, researchers from Google identified a key challenge in evaluating large language models (LLMs) for machine translation (MT): verbosity. The term verbosity refers to instances where LLMs offer reasoning insights behind their translation choices, provide multiple translations, or even refuse to translate certain content. The researchers explained that, unlike traditional […]

Localization Tech Trailblazer Alon Lavie joins Phrase as VP of AI Research

Phrase, the global leader in cloud-based localization software, today announced the appointment of localization industry leading authority Dr. Alon Lavie as its new Vice President of AI Research. Dr. Lavie will be joined by an expert team of machine learning engineers with whom he has worked for decades across different organizations. He and the team […]