A month after Disney+ launched in Turkey, local media reported that the company’s Turkish subtitle translators received an email with directions on certain content and sensitive themes that they should flag when working on translation assignments.

The announcement comes just a few months after the company announced that it would begin a project to develop a machine translation (MT) tool that can translate the majority of the world’s 7,000 or so languages.

Verbit is undergoing an organizational change involving about 50 layoffs in the U.S. and 30 in Israel. It will employ a total of 520 employees following the cutback, 50 more than it had when it announced its latest funding round.

Squid Game, the subject of everyone’s favorite subtitling debate, has become the first non-English series to receive a nomination for outstanding drama at the Emmy Awards.

A new translation and transliteration tool with a particular emphasis on Southeast Asian languages allows users to easily write in non-Latin scripts without the use of a different keyboard or settings.

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ENCO, a Michigan-based company specializing in technology for radio and television broadcasting, announced July 6 that it has acquired TranslateTV (TTV) and Sentinel Solutions.

Reports of service outages across several Lionbridge platforms have kept the language service provider’s (LSP) engineers busy over the past week. 

Speechmatics, a startup developing speech recognition technology, announced June 27 that it raised $62 million in Series B funding.

On Friday June 23, the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) and the Board of Education of the City of Chicago agreed to a settlement with a group of parents who filed a federal lawsuit after being denied interpreting and translation services.