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iFLYTEK Signs Agreement with Egyptian Ministry

Last month, iFLYTEK signed the Chinese-Arabic Language Translation Research Agreement with the Egyptian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (EMCIT). The EMCIT’s AI and...

Translation App Now Features Auto Mode

Translation app companies are continually developing new features that will better facilitate experiences abroad for users. Microsoft Translator’s Auto mode is the latest addition...

Automated Localization AI to Join Kaltura REACH

Kaltura REACH will integrate SyncWords’ automated localization to improve Kaltura’s video AI captioning accuracy and speed with hopes of increasing viewership. SyncWords announced recently that...

TICO-19 COVID Response Effort Welcomes TWB

Translators without Borders has joined TICO-19, a coalition of academic institutions and industry partners, in an effort to translate and localize urgent health-related resources...

Takeaways from LocWorldWide

LocWorldWide, held July 28-30, was the biggest localization event yet to pivot to an online forum. The content was originally scheduled for Berlin in...

Translated to provide EU Parliament with real-time speech translation AI

Debates will be transcribed and translated by a new state-of-the-art MT system that keeps humans in the loop Translated has been selected by the European...

Multilingual Communities in AU Need Access to Health Info

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has come under fire recently for how his administration has handled Australia’s efforts to translate COVID-19 messages and properly...

Appen (ASX:APX) Targeted By Hackers

Appen Limited (ASX:APX), a multilingual AI enablement and machine learning company headquartered in Sydney, issued a report on July 30th (Australian time) that malicious...

Straker Posts Record Growth Amid COVID-19 Filing Reveals

New Zealand's Straker Translations (ASX:STG) increased revenues by 28% in June 2020 compared to the same month in 2019, according to quarterly filings with...

SDL Partners with Reynen Court

According to a report released by Business Wire, Reynen Court LLC platform has partnered with SDL Machine Translation. Reynen Court provides law firms and legal...

MultiLingual Announces New Summer Series

In-person conferences have all but disappeared. LocWorldWide and other virtual events are filling in the gaps, and now MultiLingual is adding free events to...

Swiss Supreme Court — Now in English?

The Swiss Supreme Court may soon accept English as one of the languages it will draft in arbitrations, as part of the Swiss Parliament’s...

Multimedia Localization Service Market Report Released

Multimedia localization deals with subtitling and translating scripts, creating voiceovers and dubbing, as well as animation, graphics processing, video production and so on. Importantly,...

IKEA Family Foundation and other venture capitalists invest $1.1 million into CMS for digital games

Sweden-based localization company LocalizeDirect just announced an investment of SEK10,264,530 ($1,130,802). The investment comes from Entreprenörinvest, owned by The IKEA Family Foundation, and a...

AI Data Training Company Appen Sees Increasing Rise in Stock Price

This week, Appen LTD, a global leader in machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) data, reported a 6.9% increase in share value — the...

$6 Million New Funding For KUDO Remote Interpreting Platform

KUDO, a New York-headquartered, cloud-based virtual interpreting platform, has been flying high since the beginning of the year as travel bans and work from...

Global Language Services Markets Optimistic in New Report

Global language services markets stand to grow by almost $10 billion between 2020-2024, according to an announcement just made by the market research company...

Conferences Canceled, How Will Translators Network?

As COVID-19 cases continue to grow worldwide and limit large-scale gatherings, localization conferences and services worldwide face a significant challenge that may impact freelance...

July / Aug 2020

July/Aug 2020 July/Aug 2020 A new podcast presented by Smartling. Everything you need to become an expert in language translation management so you can connect your products...

Nov / Dec 2019

Nov/Dec 2019 Nov/Dec 2019 Post Editing O f all the things that led me into localization, travel tops the list. When you grow up homeschooled in the rural...

Sept / Oct 2019

Sept/Oct 2019 Sept/Oct 2019 Post Editing T he greatest thing about tech is that it allows us to be more human. I’ve recently been going through my photos,...

Jul / Aug 2019

July/Aug 2019 July/Aug 2019 Post Editing O ur industry is nonpartisan. Our job is simply to transmit information across cultural and legal lines. When we talk about health...

Mar / Apr 2019

Mar/Apr 2019 Mar/Apr 2019 Powerful tools to translate your products and content Translation shouldn’t be hard. Sign up for a 15 minute virtual demo to get a peek...