Venture Capital Firms Pile Into AI Transcription as Gladia Raises USD 16M in Series A – slator.com
AI transcription start-up, Gladia, has announced that it has raised USD 16m in a Series A funding round. The Paris-based company was founded in 2022 with the mission to deliver real-time speech-to-text solutions that are fast, accurate, and affordable — a feat that Gladia described as challenging for the industry. The funding round, which closed […]
‘Don’t Be Too Scared of LLMs’, Machine Translation Pioneers Caution at AMTA – slator.com
Since its first conference, in 1994, the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA), the North American branch of the International Association for Machine Translation, has aimed to bring together machine translation (MT) researchers and buyers to talk shop and explore the challenges, and opportunities, of the field. In October 2024, AMTA hosted its […]
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 […]
How AI Is Creating Opportunities for LSPs in Audiovisual Translation – slator.com
For a few years now, AI has been reshaping how audiovisual content is localized and used. From AI-automated subtitling and captioning to AI dubbing and advancements in sign language, AI-generated audio description, and many other services, audiovisual translation (AVT) presents both exciting opportunities and challenges for language service providers (LSPs). Data from the 2024 Slator […]