Claudio Fantinuoli
Claudio Fantinuoli is an executive-level manager, innovator, and researcher specializing in digital transformation and speech technologies. He is an Associate Professor of Interpreting Studies and Language Technology at Mainz University and the founder of InterpretBank, a computer-assisted interpreting tool.
When One Tool Does Everything, What Happens to Everyone Else?
Generalist AI models are absorbing specialized technologies, reducing products like language tech to mere features. To survive, specialized companies must pursue a combination of meaningful quality advantages, deep niche applications, and careful diversification.
When Translation Becomes Invisible: The implications of automatically multilingual digital environments
The author discusses translation’s evolution in the modern digital landscape: from commissioned service to user-controlled feature, and finally to algorithmic default. He argues that while this transformation brings us closer to the dream of mutual intelligibility at scale, it also comes with downsides like less scrutiny and fewer safeguards.
What Will Happen to the Language Industry if the AI Bubble Bursts?
The author argues that, while the signs of a bubble are unmistakable, language companies and professionals can prepare themselves now for sustainable success by integrating AI meaningfully rather than worshiping it.
The Era of Experience
The author argues that future AI interpreting systems will learn from not only human-generated examples, but also their own experience interacting with environments, generating data, and discovering solutions beyond existing human knowledge.
The Silent Revolution in AI Dubbing
YouTube's new AI dubbing feature could be described as voice-over with emotional fidelity: a hybrid form that borrows the immediacy of human speech while keeping production almost entirely automatic.
The Rise of AI and the Fall of the Gatekeeper
In the era of increasingly capable artificial intelligence, access to expert-level services such as translation is being radically expanded, and in some cases democratized.