Lanfrica launches catalog of African language resources
Lanfrica, an online catalog of African language resources specialized for linguists and natural language processing (NLP) specialists, has launched after months of development.
Doric-speaking MRI scanner eases patient worries
The University of Aberdeen in Scotland decided to run a £1.2 million upgrade to their MRI scanner. Supporting 17 languages including Spanish, Arabic, Mandarin, Russian, and French, the language offerings now also includes Doric, or Northeast Scots.
Waverly Labs talks wearable translation tech’s present, future
At this year’s CES, Waverly Labs introduced a suite of new services and hardware designed to provide near-instantaneous communication among multiple languages and dialects.
Microsoft and Canadian government partner to create MT for indigenous languages
Microsoft Translator now offers Inuinnaqtun and a romanized version of Inuktitut, which were developed with the support of the government of Nunavut, Canada, and other community groups. Inuktitut, which is the most widely known and spoken dialect of the Inuktut language, was first added to Microsoft Translator in Jan. 2021. When it was first added to the platform, Microsoft Translator could only translate it using the native Inuktitut syllabary system.
University of Macau researchers win several prizes at MT conference
The government of Macau recently commended the University of Macau’s Natural Language Processing and Portuguese-Chinese Machine Translation Lab, for landing in first place in five contests at the Sixth Conference on Machine Translation.
SubtitleNEXT introduces new features in 5.11 update
A subtitle toolset developed by PBT EU, SubtitleNEXT opens the year with a major update in its Version 5.11 release. Despite hurdles presented by the pandemic, the new update brings a host of new tools for software users.
Waverly Labs unveils new translation products at CES
Earlier this week, at this year’s Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Waverly Labs unveiled two new products in its line of real-time translation technology. “We are on a mission to bridge global communications by building a world without language barriers,” said Andrew Ochoa, the Brooklyn-based tech company’s CEO and founder.
Russia allows companies extra time to adhere to new localization law
Last summer, the government of Russia adopted a law requiring certain large tech companies to adopt a wide-reaching localization protocol. While the law officially went into place on Jan. 1, the country recently announced that it would be lenient in imposing any penalties during the early days of 2022, in order to accommodate companies that have yet to implement the law’s requirements.
Machine translation for low-resource languages: A look at Lesan
A team of researchers based in Ethiopia has developed and launched a new machine translation (MT) system specialized for low-resource languages.
Lesan, which was presented...