Localization Today

The quality of machine translation (MT) is quickly approaching that of human translators, according to research published today by Translated.

As 2022 comes to a close, English-language dictionary publishers are selecting the words that best encapsulate the character and ambiance of the last 365 days.

Researchers at the international tech company NVIDIA recently developed an award-winning automatic speech recognition (ASR) model for Telugu.

Duolingo now gives users insights into their language learning habits for the past year, all in the form of a neatly packed Instagram story-like widget. And following up on that personalized data, the company also released information on language learning trends among all of its users earlier this week in its 2022 Duolingo Language Report.

OpenAI, the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence laboratory behind the large language model (LLM) GPT-3 and the image generator DALL-E, launched a new tool on Wednesday: ChatGPT.

A five-day workshop at the University of Kashmir culminated in the completion of a nearly 4,000-word glossary of political science terminology translated into the Kashmiri language.

Almost four months after announcing it acquired the studio behind German-language dubs of Stranger Things and The Crown, Deluxe has announced another acquisition: Post Haste Digital, an audiovisual studio that specializes in English-language dubbing.

Often referred to as the biggest sporting event in the entire world, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that broadcasters and organizers of the FIFA World Cup also have to take into account certain linguistic considerations when airing the games on television. 

It can be easy to take our writing systems for granted — we don’t often have to think all that critically about the letters we use on a day-to-day basis, in part because they’ve been around for thousands of years. 

Since returning home from this season's conferences, I have had time to reflect, and this article contains several common themes I noticed of how language entrepreneurs are solving the challenges presenting themselves in sales today.