Unbabel and Zendesk Now Offer Multilingual Customer Service
Unbabel and Zendesk Agent Workspace announced on June 29 their new translation partnership. Unbabel, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered language operations platform, is now integrated...
Streaming on Twitch in a Minority Language
About 99% of the internet’s content is written in just 30 languages — and more than half of that content is written in English....
The Underrepresentation of African Languages in Tech
Like any other continent on Earth, Africa is home to hundreds — and potentially thousands, depending on who you ask—of indigenous languages. Some of...
Memsource Improves Chinese-language MT with Tencent
The Prague-based language service provider (LSP) Memsource announced yesterday afternoon that it will be utilizing Tencent Cloud’s machine translation (MT) system, which is now...
RWS Revives Language Weaver MT Platform
RWS announced today that it is reviving the Language Weaver brand of machine translation (MT) technology after acquiring Language Weaver’s parent company SDL in...
Developing MT Benchmarks for Under-Resourced Languages
Machine translation (MT) systems have little difficulty translating between languages like Spanish and English or English and Chinese — but for languages with limited...
Developing More Accessible Speech Recognition Systems
Researchers at Facebook have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system that doesn’t need transcribed audio data to recognize speech — this means that the...
Fujitsu Launches Hands-Free Translation System
The Japanese information technology (IT) and communications company Fujitsu recently launched a new speech translation system, notable for the fact that it’s a hands-free...
Google Launches App for Language Preservation
Google’s Arts & Culture team has recently launched Woolaroo, a new tool for learning and preserving Indigenous and vulnerable languages. Woolaroo is available as...