AI Tech Consulting Firm Quansight Acquires Cobalt Speech and Language – slator.com
On May 6, 2025, open source technology consulting firm Quansight announced that it had acquired Cobalt Speech and Language, a provider of automatic speech recognition (ASR), transcription, natural language understanding, and other voice technologies in multiple languages. The deal closed April 10, 2025. According to Quansight CEO Travis Oliphant, the purchase was for cash, earn-out, […]
CEO of AI Dubber Papercup Says Much of the Team is Moving to Scale AI – slator.com
AI dubbing company Papercup co-founder and CEO, Jesse Shemen, announced via a post on LinkedIn dated May 15, 2025, that “a large portion of the Papercup team is joining Scale AI, a company I’ve long admired for shaping the future of AI across both public and enterprise sectors.” While both Shemen and AI data annotation […]
Supertext CEO on Repositioning for the AI Translation Paradigm Shift – slator.com
Swiss-based language services provider Supertext has presented its top tips and recommendations for companies to reposition their language services to AI-first models at SlatorCon Remote on March 18, 2025. The company offered its advice to SlatorCon attendees following the merger between language services provider Supertext and language AI company TextShuttle in April last year. Samuel […]
Korn Translations and Zaum Langs Merged Under Idlewild Burg Group – slator.com
On February 24, 2025 language service providers (LSPs) Korn Translations and Zaum Langs announced a merger that will join the companies within the Idlewild Burg group. As of December 1, 2024, both Zaum Langs and Korn Translations (or Korn Traduções, in Portuguese) are owned in their entirety by Idlewild Burg, Inc. Financial details of the […]