Andrew Warner
Andrew Warner is a writer from Sacramento. He received his B.A. in linguistics and English from UCLA and is currently working toward an M.A. in applied linguistics at Columbia University. His writing has been published in Language Magazine, Sactown Magazine, and The Takeout.
Google Releases Dataset to Address Gender Bias
In an effort to address the gender bias in its neural machine translation (NMT) technologies, Google has recently released a new dataset that appears...
Researchers Decode Elephant Communication
Lauded by Scientific American as the “first ‘Google Translate’ for elephants,” a team of researchers at the non-profit animal conservation organization ElephantVoices has developed...
Afghan Interpreters Seek Special Immigrant Visas
Editor's note: This story was originally published in April and has been updated.
The Biden administration announced on July 8 that flights to evacuate some...
Zoom Explores Translation Options, Acquires MT Start-up
The digital communications platform Zoom announced that it is currently in the process of acquiring Karlsruhe Information Technology Solutions (Kites), an artificial intelligence (AI)-focused...
Breaking (Language) Barriers
As vaccination efforts ramp up and COVID-19 cases decline across the United States, it’s worth noting that the pandemic has brought to light significant inequalities in the nation.
WhatsApp Spanish Content Moderators Claim Unfair Payment
In an internal letter to the leadership of WhatsApp, Facebook, and Accenture, more than 100 Spanish-language moderators and customer service representatives for WhatsApp alleged...
Welsh Language Activists Fight Against Nuclear Energy
Language activists in Wales have been fighting to protect the Welsh language from a rather unlikely threat: nuclear energy. According to a recent report...
Rheinschrift Language Services Achieves ISO 18587
Rheinschrift Language Services, a Cologne-based language service provider (LSP), announced on July 2 that it has received its ISO 18587 certification — this announcement...
Translated Receives $25 Million Investment
The Italy and U.S.-based language service provider Translated announced on June 30 that it has recently received a $25 million investment from Ardian, one...
Unbabel and Zendesk Now Offer Multilingual Customer Service
Unbabel and Zendesk Agent Workspace announced on June 29 their new translation partnership. Unbabel, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered language operations platform, is now integrated...
New Mexico’s Language Access Services Best in U.S.
In its recently released Justice Index, the National Center for Access to Justice (NCAJ) named the state of New Mexico as the number one...
Cloudbreak Health Completes SPAC, merges with UpHealth
Cloudbreak Health, a telehealth company specializing in remote interpreting services, announced on June 15 the completion of its special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) transaction...
Preparing Translations for Emergency Situations
While the COVID-19 pandemic is beginning to slow down in the United States, natural disasters are beginning to pick up across the nation: a...
Streaming on Twitch in a Minority Language
About 99% of the internet’s content is written in just 30 languages — and more than half of that content is written in English....
The Underrepresentation of African Languages in Tech
Like any other continent on Earth, Africa is home to hundreds — and potentially thousands, depending on who you ask—of indigenous languages. Some of...
Memsource Improves Chinese-language MT with Tencent
The Prague-based language service provider (LSP) Memsource announced yesterday afternoon that it will be utilizing Tencent Cloud’s machine translation (MT) system, which is now...
BLEND Announces Acquisition of GM Voices
The international localization company BLEND announced today that it has acquired Atlanta-based GM Voices, a move that will allow BLEND to expand its services...
RWS Releases Half-Year Report
RWS announced its half-year results for the six-month period ending March 31, 2021 on Tuesday, highlighting the company’s significant growth. The company’s revenue during...
RWS Revives Language Weaver MT Platform
RWS announced today that it is reviving the Language Weaver brand of machine translation (MT) technology after acquiring Language Weaver’s parent company SDL in...
The Need for Multilingual Science-Focused Content
It’s no secret that the recent COVID-19 pandemic has shed light on the importance of science literacy and the problems surrounding limited language access...
Phrase and Memsource Launch Two Educational Programs
As part of an effort to make localization software more accessible to early career professionals in the industry, Phrase, a platform specialized for managing...
Developing MT Benchmarks for Under-Resourced Languages
Machine translation (MT) systems have little difficulty translating between languages like Spanish and English or English and Chinese — but for languages with limited...
Developing More Accessible Speech Recognition Systems
Researchers at Facebook have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system that doesn’t need transcribed audio data to recognize speech — this means that the...
Interactio Raises $30 Million in Series A Funding
The Lithuania-based remote interpretation platform Interactio announced this morning that it has raised $30 million in series A funding, with investments from venture capital...