Slator - Language Industry News

Hosted by Florian Faes and Esther Bond, with guest Anna Wyndham, in their SlatorPod year-end 2024 episode, key language industry trends over the course of the past year, including trends, drivers, and predictions, 2025, will be discussed. First, language industry news of the week: LXT acquired clickworker with the goal of doubling revenues by 2025 by expanding its AI data capabilities. Esther also shares how EzDubs, a speech translation startup, raised USD 4.2m in seed funding . Florian comments that RWS published revenues for 2024 that are stable with £180m from AI-powered products and services. Additionally, YouTube announced the rollout of AI dubbing , enabling content creators to reach new language-speaking audiences, but admitted limitations at this point, including poor voice quality. https://youtu.be/CtrVDikK7lE In their discussion, the trio talked about the UK House of Lords inquiry into court interpreting and translation , highlighting pay issues for interpreters, quality i...

Humanless LSP as a Fun Weekend Project Florian and Esther discuss the language industry news of the week, giving a recap of SlatorCon London and exploring some use cases from the Slator Pro Guide: Language AI for Consumers . Florian talks about Andrew Ng’s recent project on agentic machine translation , which involves using large language models ( LLMs ) to create a virtual language service provider (LSP). The duo touched on Apple’s recent Worldwide Developer Conference, where Apple Watch is set to get a translation widget and also recently announced a new translation API. Florian shares RWS’s half-year financial results , where despite declines in revenue, the company’s stock rose by 20%, likely due to investor perception of AI-enabled services and new product offerings like Evolve and HAI gaining traction. Esther talks about DeepL’s USD 300m funding round , which valued the company at USD 2bn, a testament to the growing interest in AI models. She also covers Unbabel’s launch of To...