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Gupshup launches domain-specific ACE LLM to transform conversational experiences

ACE LLMs are a family of domain-specific models, purpose-built to transform enterprise conversations. Built atop foundation models, ACE LLM is fine-tuned for specific industries...

Welocalize Joins Content Authenticity Initiative to Champion Trust in Multilingual Digital Content

The collaboration aims to set new industry standards for content authenticity and address the challenges of Generative AI NEW YORK - August 23, 2023 --...

A Gateway to a Brighter Future Experts Discuss the Importance of Early Language Learning

Toronto Canada, August 18, 2023 — In a recent episode of the Localization Fireside Chat podcast, language experts Carrie Fisher and Robin Ayoub discussed...

Acolad sponsors relay swim in favor of ASPIRE

Acolad will support Jane O’Callaghan on her 34km (21 mi) crossing of the English Channel, directly contributing to the fundraising started by O’Callaghan for UK-based...

Deepdub and OOONA announce strategic partnership to expand AI-based dubbing solutions to global entertainment and media clients

Tel Aviv, Israel - August 21, 2023 — Deepdub, the leading AI-based audiovisual dubbing and language localization company, today announced a partnership with OOONA, a...

The Week in Review: August 18, 2023

Linguists at MIT are doing some really interesting research into how children acquire expletive words in their native languages. No, not those kinds of expletives....

Smartling receives AI Breakthrough Award for best machine translation solution

Smartling named best machine translation solution in the natural language processing category NEW YORK — Smartling, Inc., the AI-powered enterprise translation company, today announced it...

Eriksen Translations Makes the 2023 Inc. 5000 List of Fastest-Growing Companies

For the 6th time in its 37-year history, language services provider Eriksen Translations Inc. has earned a spot on the Inc. 5000.  Brooklyn, New York,...

Dive into the Exciting Journey of tbo’s Rebranding with Charles Campbell

Toronto Canada August 11, 2023, we’ve got some awesome news coming your way from Localization Fire Chat, the go-to podcast and YouTube hangouts for...

AcudocX Revolutionizes Certified Translations and Announces Strategic Acquisition of Translato.ai

BRISBANE, Australia — AcudocX, a disruptive SaaS platform in the certified translation space, has unveiled a revolutionary solution poised to transform global immigration processes....

The Week in Review: August 11, 2023

In the language services industry, DeepL is practically a household name. And it looks like it’s becoming one outside the industry as well: It was...

Robin Ayoub’s Localization Fireside Chat Explores Deepdub

Toronto, Canada, August 8th, 2023 – Deepdub, a trailblazing localization company, is revolutionizing the entertainment industry with its innovative use of Generative AI technology....

KUDO gains a patent for systems and methods for automatic speech translation

NEW YORK — In a defining mark of innovation, KUDO receives a patent grant certification from the United States Patent Office (USPO) for its...

United Language Group achieves multiple ISO standard recertifications

ULG Translation Business Unit demonstrates commitment to quality with a leading level of global certifications.   ULG continues to lead the language services industry with multiple global...

Buyer’s Guide

Emerging markets are opening new opportunities for many. But where are the best opportunities, and how can they be leveraged?

The Week in Review: August 4, 2023

Ever since the day OpenAI first launched ChatGPT, people have expressed concerns over its potential to produce harmful language. While OpenAI and other chatbot developers...

The Remote Interpreter

Interpreting is a pretty old profession. Interpreters have been around, in some form or another, for as long as people from different linguistic backgrounds have needed to communicate with one another in real time. There are written records of interpreters facilitating communication all throughout history: ancient Egypt in the third millennium BCE, imperial China in the 800s, and Spain during the Inquisition, just to name a few examples.

August 2023

Like most language workers, interpreters are weathering a squall of technological disruption. So what has changed, and what remains the same?

Language I/O announces $8M Series A1 funding to boost GenAI capabilities for translation services

Wyoming Business Council's WYVC Funds leads round with first investment to grow state's tech ecosystem CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Language I/O (LIO), a leader in real-time, business-accurate translation...

Interprefy’s AI speech translation solution for events is the world’s first AI to facilitate two-way translation

ZURICH — Multilingual meeting technology and services provider Interprefy is today unveiling its latest breakthrough to its ground-breaking artificial intelligence (AI) real-time translation solution. Interprefy’s AI solution has...

Marc Westray of Interpreters Unlimited named one of the Leaders of Influence in advertising PR & marketing

SAN DIEGO, August 2, 2023 — The San Diego Business Journal (SDBJ) has announced their list of the Leaders of Influence in Advertising PR & Marketing...

Kristin Gutierrez Engages in a Dynamic Fireside Chat with Robin Ayoub

Toronto, Canada, July 28, 2023 - Kristin Gutierrez, an acclaimed authority in sales and leadership strategy, took center stage in an engaging Localization Fireside...

Congreso Uruguayo de Traducción e Interpretación (CUTI) returns to Montevideo this September

The Congreso Uruguayo de Traducción e Interpretación (CUTI, Uruguayan Translation and Interpretation Conference) is back! Join us on September 1-2, 2023, for an amazing...

AI Technology Drives YouFact Tech’s Guinness World Record Application for Most Translated YouTube Channel

NEW YORK — YouFact Tech, a popular YouTube content creator, has officially applied for a prestigious spot in the Guinness Book of Records as...