Slator - Language Industry News

  A Pinch, a Twitch , and Everything in Between: Pinch’s Christian Safka and Twitch’s Susan Maria Howard were among the top language industry leaders who joined hundreds of attendees on March 18, 2025, for the first SlatorCon Remote conference of the year. Kicking off the day’s events, Slator’s Head of Advisory , Esther Bond, welcomed attendees and invited Managing Director Florian Faes to share the latest findings and insights in his highly anticipated 'industry health check. In his presentation, Faes began by reflecting on the challenges of 2024. He discussed data from Slator’s 2025 Language Service Provider Index (LSPI) and highlighted the growth of interpreting-focused companies, contrasted with the struggles faced by small, undifferentiated agencies and the rapid rise of language AI, driven by companies like ElevenLabs and DeepL . Faes also highlighted key findings from Slator’s 2025 Localization Buyer Survey , including the challenges buyers face in implementing AI and the ...

On  7  January  2025, LinkedIn News UK  released  its  " Job trends 2025: The 25 fastest-growing jobs in the UK " ,  and  the  interpreters   find   themselves   at #22. LinkedIn calls  this   " Jobs on the Rise "   -   positions that it  considers  to   be   pointers  of areas of career opportunity based on data collected over the  past  three years. In   the list, it names  both spoken and sign language interpreters   and states  the  skills   typical   for a professional in the field as:  interpreting, translation, and consecutive interpretation .   The  professionals   are  thus   mainly  in demand in translation and localization, museums, historical sites, zoos, and interestingly  enough , transportation equipment manufacturing. The LinkedIn data points to London, Manchester, and Glasgow as the ...

For the language industry , the year 2024 will go down as a year that had multiple developments and innovations at a fast pace, but this growth came with some distinct trends on the technological front that included translation feature as a service (TaaF), the emergence of multimodal AI , and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and the use of large language models (LLM) enabled applications.  The integration of AI tools and human skill was in the central place in the deliberations of the industry specialists even as the different size companies had their perspectives. The responses of the readers and viewers as revealed in the weekly Slator polls are snapshots of the sentiments, preferences and scopes across the industry.  1. Is it Time for Language Service Providers to Change Their Mindset?  The language service sector has survived difficult times in the past but it was not business as usual for an industry that started 2024 on the wrong foot as reports of some firm...