Leeds, EST Congress, and My Northern Soul

As event season heats up, let me lead you to Leeds! The University of Leeds' School of Languages, Cultures, and Societies will host the 11th European Society for Translation Studies Congress on June 30th.

Q&A With IAMT Award of Honour Winner Mikel L. Forcada

MultiLingual spoke with Forcada about his thoughts on winning the IAMT Award of Honour as well as his view of the modern machine translation landscape.

Embracing Babel: How IBM watsonx.ai Is Quietly Rewriting the Rules of Multilingual AI

Learn how IBM watsonx.ai’s pretrained models simplify language detection and translation, letting you integrate multilingual AI into chatbots, e-learning, OCR pipelines, and more, all with just a few lines of code.

This Startup Is Giving Sign Language a Digital Voice

Silence Speaks is transforming accessibility with an AI sign language avatar that brings real-time sign translation to transportation, education, and more.

From Paris to Prompt: How La Francophonie Quietly Changed AI’s Language Priorities

Behind a diplomatic smile and a thousand-page UN compact, La Francophonie is quietly reshaping how AI speaks to the world—pushing tech giants to go beyond English and embrace the true diversity of global languages.

AskQE: When Your Translation App Starts Asking the Questions

AskQE is an AI-powered tool that questions machine translations to detect errors without needing knowledge of the target language—redefining quality estimation.

Translator Salaries in Spain: A Closer Look at Rates, Roles, and Realities

Translator salaries in Spain in 2025 remain modest despite rising demand. Specialization, international clients, and tech skills are key to boosting income.

Meta’s Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Just Got Smarter—But Are They the Only Game in Town?

Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses now offer real-time translation, object recognition, and AI voice support—but how do they stack up against the competition?

Building a Career in Localization Project Management: Insights From Virginia Diaz

Virginia Diaz has spent two decades working as a project manager in the localization industry. Now a program manager at software company Degreed, she shares the inspirations, perspectives, and ambitions that have shaped her career.