Tag: machine translation (MT)
Weekly Shorts | March 5, 2021
Stimulus funding for translation?
While Washington, DC works on an economic stimulus bill for the entire United States, lawmakers in Vermont are drafting one of...
One Hour Translation raises $10M, rebrands
Machine translation (MT) provider One Hour Translation announced a $10 million private equity (PE) round today, led by existing investor Fortissimo Capital. The company...
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...
Translation Trends for 2021: How the industry is shaping up
Regional translation industry growth trends
As the digital realm continuously pushes for more globalized and shared experiences, the global translation industry is predicted to continue...
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,...
Weekly Shorts | February 5, 2021
Alleged US Capitol rioter needs Russian interpreter
One of the people accused of attacking the US Capitol on January 6th requires a Russian interpreter, reports...
Microsoft Adds Inuktitut, but is that good?
It's one thing to train a machine translation engine and quite another to continue improving it. This is Inuktitut speakers' concern.
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...
A New Translation App from…Hyundai?
There's a new Korean-English translation app out there and it's made by Hyundai. That's right: The automobile manufacturer has gotten in the language business.
According...