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.
Fujitsu and Straker Translations collaborate on Māori translation initiative
Just in time to close out this year’s Māori Language Week, Fujitsu and Straker Translations announced today that they’ve teamed up to offer Māori translation on ServiceNow.
“Animal translation” generates media buzz — does it work?
Pet care would probably be a lot simpler if we could translate a simple “meow” into human language with the same ease as translating between two languages like English and German with machine translation (MT).
Researchers share framework for more accurate speech recognition
In their paper, published at the end of August, the researchers outline their approach to improving ASR for Mandarin Chinese, which was found to reduce character error rates by more than 25%.
Popular unofficial desktop version of Google Translate contains malware, researchers say
If you’re using an unofficial desktop version of Google Translate, you may want to run a quick antivirus scan on your computer.
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AI is learning how to do your linguistics homework
“Children easily acquire language from quantities of data that are modest by the standards of modern artificial intelligence (AI),” reads a paper published in Nature Communications earlier this week.
Developing machine translation to help Indigenous refugees navigate immigration courts
Seeking asylum in the United States can be complex even for speakers of high-resource languages like Spanish — for speakers of less widely spoken languages like K’iche’ and Q’anjob’al, it can be even more difficult.
A speech tech boom? Airgram raises $10 million in Series A
The tape recorder may have been the original speech technology but now there's Airgram, Otter.ai, Speechmatics, and a whole lot more.
Meta fails to localize Horizon Worlds before launching in Spain and France
Meta received some harsh words from frustrated Spanish speakers after a shaky international rollout of its game Horizon Worlds.