TransPerfect now owns more than 90 recording rooms after Hiventy acquisition
With Hiventy under its wing, TransPerfect — which is already the largest LSP in the industry, according to this year’s Nimdzi 100 — is poised to expand its audiovisual services, thanks to Hiventy’s suite of international offices and team of roughly 300 employees.
Eriksen Translations wins awards from Women’s Business Enterprise Council Metro NY
The WBEC Metro NY awarded Eriksen Translations with the awards, honoring the LSP’s work to help city and state agencies in the New York City metropolitan area provide quality language access services.
Google Translation Hub: game-changer or just another tool in the toolbox?
On Oct. 11, Google announced the launch of a new AI-powered cloud service called Translation Hub. The announcement instantly made waves in the language services industry and beyond, so Nimdzi took a closer look to see what’s really behind the new offering from the tech giant.
Video game industry meets booming demand for localization in Southeast Asia
Over the last decade, we have seen localization for video games continuously expand into new regions, and most recently there has been a significant increase in demand for localization and testing for Southeast Asia (SEA) regions.
Smartling CEO Bryan Murphy on company’s new VP of Machine Translation and Artificial Intelligence
MultiLingual spoke with CEO Bryan Murphy to learn a bit more about just what exactly the new position entails as well as some of the projects Beregovaya will be working on in the new role.
Zingword CEO Robert Rogge talks ZingChat release
Designed as a team chat program specifically geared for translators, ZingChat is engineered to fit in with the Zingword product ecosystem and provide language workers a seamless communication experience. Robert Rogge, CEO of Zingword, took the time to answer a few questions about the work that went into the new tool.
NeuralSpace completes seed round with $2.8 million
With its first round of investments finished, the startup notes that it hopes to develop improved speech-to-text and text-to-speech models for low-resource languages.
ATC announces winners of annual Language Industry Awards
This year, the awards gala took place Sept. 22, with a round-up of awards including titles such as “Company of the Year,” “Translator of the Year,” “Project Management Team of the Year,” and more.
Airbnb breaks down Translation Engine progress
First applied to the platform's messaging feature, Translation Engine will eventually be used for all user-generated content, according to Airbnb officials. We caught up with the Airbnb team to learn just how work has progressed and what comes next.