Tag: google translate
Could Google’s AR glasses break language barriers?
Earlier this month, Google gave the public a sneak peek at its latest piece of translation technology: a pair of augmented reality (AR) glasses that translates spoken language in real time.
Africa Day 2022: Developing a more equitable tech landscape for African languages
Most of the nations of Africa have been politically independent of colonial powers for the better part of half a century now. Still, discussions at the intersections of language and technology often overlook the continent.
Linguistic gender bias goes further than you may expect
In a paper published in Science Advances, the team of researchers found that speakers tend to use the word “people” in contexts more frequently associated with men than with women. The study could potentially shed further light on the gender bias in machine translation (MT).
Amazon Translate, Google Translate, Susceptible to Attacks
Toward the end of 2020, Amazon launched a Live Translation feature for its Alexa virtual assistant — according to a recent report from How-To...
Google Releases Dataset to Address Gender Bias
In an effort to address the gender bias in its neural machine translation (NMT) technologies, Google has recently released a new dataset that appears...
Study Explores Areas of Improvement in Machine Translation
As machine translation (MT) has become more and more prevalent in our day-to-day lives, it seems that so too have comical, and sometimes harmful,...
Weekly Shorts | March 19, 2021
Memsource partners with Gridly Game CMS to deliver localization workflow for game studios
A recent Memsource-Gridly integration allows game companies to localize game content faster,...
Weekly Shorts | February 26, 2021
Lengoo raises 20 mill USD
Machine translation maker Lengoo has raised 20 million USD in a series B investment round, American business news site TechCrunch...
Google Translate Causes Vaccine Mishap
Last week, MultiLingual reported on a Virginia Department of Health website translation error that incorrectly told Spanish speakers they don’t need coronavirus vaccines. New information...