The Week in Review: Language Industry News September 8–14

Unicode 17.0, Interprefy research, Africa’s industry growth, Acolad’s Stevie Award, and AI innovation headline this news-september-8-14.

Language Industry Experts to Advise Pope Leo XIV on AI Issues

Marco Trombetti and Alex Waibel are slated to participate in the 2025 World Meeting on Human Fraternity on September 12, bringing expertise and perspectives from the language industry to an influential global event.

The Week in Review: Language Industry News September 1–7

The Week in Review: Language Industry News September 1–7 highlights AI adoption in law, Pinterest and RWS’s strategy, Argos’s GenAI report, and vendor recognition.

The Monthly Review: Language Industry News August 2025

The Monthly Review Language Industry News August 2025 covers AI breakthroughs, acquisitions, and cultural milestones worldwide.

The Week in Review: Language Industry News August 25–31

Language industry news August 25–31: AI translation tools and equity efforts shaped this week’s top stories.

The Week in Review: Language Industry News from August 18–24

From AI breakthroughs to LSP acquisitions and cultural initiatives, here’s the language industry news that shaped the week of August 18–24.

Welocalize and Duke University Launch LangMark Dataset for Post-Editing

At the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Welocalize and Duke University unveiled LangMark, a multilingual dataset designed to advance research in automatic post-editing of neural machine translation.

United States Citizenship and Immigration Agency Ends Free Interpreter Services for Field Office Appointments

Starting September 28, the agency will no longer provide interpreters for field office appointments such as interviews or hearings, placing the responsibility on applicants to bring their own.

NVIDIA Launches Open Dataset for Multilingual Speech AI

NVIDIA releases an open-source dataset and new artificial intelligence models optimized for translation across 25 European languages. The company aims to bridge the gap in speech technologies for underrepresented languages.