Localization Today

Scholastic and SoapBox Labs have recently come together to make speech recognition technology accessible to elementary schools across America. 

After reading the features on LangOps in MultiLingual’s 2022 issue, Kirti Vashee’s still not quite sold on the concept, noting that it overcomplicates things a bit. Here, Vashee presents his thoughts on LangOps and attempts to develop a better, more simplistic approach to talking about it.

At the most recent LocWorld conference in San Jose, Jack Welde won the Process Innovation Challenge prize for a new program feature that supplies translators with invaluable context. Better context means better, more accurate translations. How does it work? Well, perhaps it’s better if the man himself explains it directly.

At GlobalSaké’s Q3 Interactive Virtual Event this past September, innovative localization teams from companies like BLEND and Subway — yes, the sandwich company — shared how they incorporate artificial intelligence into their localization workflows. Here, Stefan Huyghe recaps some of the technology and
perspectives that folks shared at the event.

Did you know that the amount of content produced by humanity each day is estimated to be 2.5 quintillion bytes? That's more bytes of text than there are stars in the observable universe. In this piece for MultiLingual, Bart Mączyński takes a look at how the translation industry is coping with the explosion of content and the challenges it faces in meeting demand.

If you’ve been trying to wrap your head around the concepts of blockchain, Web3.0, or the metaverse, look no further. Nimdzi’s Nadežda Jakubková has you covered with this in-depth report in the Innovator’s Journal on these pressing topics and how they could impact the language industry in the near future.

The latest wave of industrial automation with technologies like hyperautomation, workflow orchestration, and generative AI has the potential to widen the range of tasks and jobs software can perform, raising concerns about the impact on jobs and transformations of roles. As we face these questions, Bruno Bitter takes a look into the past to gain some insight on where the the language industry is headed.

In his latest column for MultiLingual, Tim Brookes of the Endangered Alphabets Project decides to take a look at how ChatGPT fares when it comes to chatting about endangered alphabets. Testing it out with his friend Olgierd Uziemblo, he’s less than impressed with the results — learn why in this column.

Are you a code talker? If you’re not, that might change after reading Ewandro Magalhães’ most recent piece for MultiLingual. Here, KUDO’s chief language officer takes a look at how ciphers work and the fascinating history of cryptography.

Although machine translation already has a big role to play in other areas of the field, literary translators haven’t quite adopted it so readily — and perhaps it’s for good reason. In this article, Angela Gabrielle Fabunan looks into the role of machine translation when it comes to translating literary works.