Luisa Translation Agency Rebrands as Luisa Language Solutions – slator.com

This new name better reflects the company’s growth and the wider range of services it now offers. Luisa Language Solutions is more than just a name: it’s a promise to be there for its clients whatever their language needs. One of the longest-established language companies in Estonia, Luisa Translation Agency is set to renew its […]

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, […]

Blackbird.io Welcomes Dan Milczarski as Vice President, Solutions – slator.com

Blackbird.io, the leading orchestration platform for multilingual content operations, is thrilled to announce the appointment of Dan Milczarski as Vice President, Solutions. Dan Milczarski A seasoned executive and industry thought leader, Dan brings over two decades of experience at the intersection of language services, technology, and process innovation. Most recently, Dan served as CTO at […]

Will YouTube Succeed with AI Translated Dubbing? – slator.com

If anyone had heard in the 2010s the prediction that YouTube VP, Amjad Hanif, is quoted as saying in a Bloomberg article about AI dubbing, skepticism would have likely reigned on social media: in five years, “every video uploaded to YouTube could be dubbed automatically into every spoken language.”  In 2025, this is more plausible, […]

DeepL Hosts Language AI Leaders at Technology Roundtable in Zurich – slator.com

On April 3, 2025, representatives from 14 organizations gathered at the beautiful FIFA Museum in Zurich for a series of roundtable presentations and discussions organized by Slator on behalf of DeepL. Titled “The Boom of ‘Bring Your Own Language AI’ – Opportunities and Risks,” the event brought together diverse stakeholders from the insurance, banking, government, […]

Slator 2025 Legal Services and Language AI Report – slator.com

The 90-page Slator 2025 Legal Services and Language AI Report provides an extensive and in-depth view of the global trends and regulations of the legal services industry, and the impact that these have on the demand for language services, language AI, and technology. The report analyzes macro-level trends in the legal services industry and offers […]

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 […]

Welocalize Launches AILQA Beta Program to Enhance AI-Powered Translation Quality Assessment – slator.com

A Data-Driven Approach to AI-Assisted Translation Quality Management Welocalize is introducing the AILQA Beta program, a collaborative initiative aimed at refining AI-driven translation quality assessment. Welocalize’s patent-pending AILQA technology is designed to leverage AI to detect and classify translation errors, offering a dramatically improved approach to evaluating linguistic quality and vendor performance. The value of […]

Slator 2025 Localization Buyer Survey – slator.com

Slator’s 30-page 2025 Localization Buyer Survey provides key insights from enterprise buyers of translation and localization services. The survey of 50 enterprise buyers uncovers the challenges buyers expect to face in 2025 and assesses the extent to which they have extracted value from language AI to date. The findings offer valuable insights for both buyers […]