Tag: Google
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...
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...
Weekly Shorts | May 7, 2021
Portuguese Diplomat Pushes for Official Language Status at United Nations
Portugal’s minister of foreign affairs, Augusto Santos Silva, said in a press conference that he...
Addressing the Gender Bias in Machine Translation
Google Translate has once again sparked a bit of controversy with users noticing a sexist gender bias in its translations. After a group of...
One Year In, Kinyarwanda Google Translate Still Flawed
One year ago this month, Google Translate added Kinyarwanda — a language principally spoken in Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Tanzania. And...
Telehealth Firm Amwell to Adopt Google AI, Translation Tech
Promising advances to the telehealth services industry, Amwell will integrate Google Cloud AI capabilities for natural language processing and medical transcription services, among other...
Friday Roundup | Aug 29, 2020
News you may have missed from the last week
Akorbi Ranked as Largest Woman-Owned LSP in the US
Akorbi, a US-based group of companies specializing in...
Monitoring your multilingual website’s performance during quarantine traffic
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, computers and smartphones are one of the few mediums people use to stay connected. This presents ripe website traffic opportunities.
Translators and interpreters respond to the Covid-19 pandemic
What happens if critical messages aren’t communicated to Americans considered Limited English Proficient (LEP) citizens? To put it bluntly: how are we going to stop the spread if a group of 25 million Americans goes uninformed?