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Not Uyoga Not Translation

As the hottest summer ever experienced by homo sapiens approached its end at the Meta headquarters in California, the world’s ninth-largest corporation announced a new achievement for cyber sapiens: the introduction of SeamlessM4T — "the first all-in-one multimodal and multilingual AI translation model that allows people to communicate effortlessly through speech and text across different languages.”

The Week in Review: July 21, 2023

If you recently joined Threads, you might have noticed a major missing feature in the app’s early days: translation. If you happened across a...

Meta gives researchers full access to its large language model, OPT-175B

Unlike many other large language models, OPT-175B will be available for free to all researchers or institutions that request access. The company notes that this effort is an attempt to “democratize” large language models, which will allow for further research into the models’ potential benefits — and dangers — to society.

Meta announces new real-time translation projects

The ambitious aim is to create real-time translation technologies that include everyone in the world by teaching AI to translate hundreds of spoken and written languages.

How will Meta manage its multilingual experience?

For a product designed to unite the world in work and play, how will Meta handle localization and intercultural interactions? MultiLingual has covered the benefits and pitfalls of social media localization extensively. How much more involved will the translation of an entire virtual platform be?

Facebook goes “meta,” internet has a field day

Meanwhile, Portuguese-speaking internet users got to have a laugh over the fact that “meta” is the imperative form of a verb with the colloquial meaning “to have intercourse.”

VKontakte Sets Sights on English-speaking Audience, Launches NMT

VKontakte, a popular social media network in Russia and other Russian-speaking regions, has recently launched its own neural machine translation (NMT) model for translating...

Facebook linguistic gaps allow hate speech to spread, don’t match demographic...

Social media giant Facebook is under the microscope yet again recently for purportedly prioritizing growth and profit over the safety of users and marginalized...

Global Readiness Forum

What’s that you say? You haven’t heard of the Global Readiness Forum? Don’t worry. Neither had we, which is why we had no choice...

Open World E07 Ft. Kate Edwards – LocFact #TheSims

Alexis: Hi, everyone. Welcome to another LocFact. Loretta: Hi, guys. For today's LocFact, we will be talking about a game that has sold enough copies...

WhatsApp Developing Automatic Transcription Feature

WhatsApp is currently working on developing an in-app speech recognition and automatic transcription system for the iOS app’s voice message feature, according to WhatsApp...

WhatsApp Spanish Content Moderators Claim Unfair Payment

In an internal letter to the leadership of WhatsApp, Facebook, and Accenture, more than 100 Spanish-language moderators and customer service representatives for WhatsApp alleged...

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...

Weekly Shorts | February 19, 2021

Facebook fixes translation error that called farmers "peasants" Facebook has removed its translation error from a recent covid-19 post on California governor Gavin Newsom's page,...

Adobe announces a new, potentially horrifying level of personalization

How personal is too personal? We're looking at a world with full integration of all your data everywhere — a single, unified profile where every data point about your life inevitably interacts.

Conversational UI Language Design at LocWorld35

Conversational UI localization and language design skills are central to a great user experience. CUI means we moved from a "user"-centric concept of design to a human-centric one. After all, what could be more "natural" that talking to a computer? Both humans and computers "converse" in dialog, and it's the language design knowledge for such a conversation that's critical to delivering a natural, human-like interaction between the two.

Language at the ❤ of Conversational Interfaces

A Chat About Language and UI Chatbots and conversational interfaces are all the rage right with startups, VCs, innovators and users alike. Messenger apps have surpassed...

Icons: Global UX Considerations Revisited and Translators without Borders

I previously raised the issue of how context of use influences our perceptions of icons, and how globalization "best practices" and guidance about icons...

Thumbs Up to International Design Considerations?

I've been reading Designing Social Interfaces by Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone. It's a fine book written by two respected experts and provides more...

The Future of Web Translation: Haters Gonna Hate

Just lurrve this TEDxCMU talk by Luis von Ahn of CMU called Duolingo: The Next Chapter in Human Computation. It's all about smart people...

¿Socially-Enabled What?

The big myth that the web is bringing us closer to other cultures or countries.