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Bryan Murphy , CEO of Smartling , joins SlatorPod to share insights into the language technology leader’s position as a turnkey cloud-based language AI solution. Bryan talks about his background in software and e-commerce and how he joined Smartling to leverage technology in the translation and localization business. Bryan expands on how Smartling has built a sophisticated translation and localiza...

Jakub Absolon, CEO of ASAP-translation.com , joins SlatorPod to share insights into the evolving landscape of AI in the language industry and the role of post-editing in the translation process. Jakub acknowledged the success of the past two years but noted that this year has brought new challenges. To stay competitive, the LSP plans to expand its B2B client base beyond the Slovak and Czech market...

Florian and Esther discuss the language industry news of the week, where they reflect on SlatorCon Zurich 2023 , which saw a growing interest in AI-driven translation technologies and the industry's efforts to position itself as experts in the enterprise content lifecycle. Esther discusses ZOO Digital's financial struggles due to strikes in Hollywood, which have affected their performanc...

Sebastien Pare, CEO of VIQ Solutions , joins SlatorPod to discuss the evolution of transcription for multi-speaker content in challenging legal and regulatory settings. Sebastien explained that VIQ initially started in Canada and expanded to other Commonwealth countries, focusing on courts thanks to their need for advanced audio and video solutions. The conversation delved into the challenges of w...

Florian and Esther discuss the language industry news of the week, where Spotify launched AI-powered voice translation for podcast creators. Esther gives a recap of the ALC 21st Annual Summit in Portland, where she presented key findings from the 2023 ALC Survey. The duo discussed the addition of Basque, Catalan, and Galician as official languages in the Spanish Congress . However, Spain's ef...

Mark Shriner , Strategic Sales Director of memoQ , and now CEO of memoQ RFP , joins the podcast to discuss the challenges and opportunities of request for proposals ( RFPs ) in the language industry. Mark explains that enterprise language services RFPs tend to focus on language pairs and pricing, while language technology RFPs delve deep into product features, integrations, and security. Mark talk...

“The face is the uncanny valley. The nuance and detail in the face and the way it moves is a very difficult thing to animate,” Jonathan Bronfman, CEO of MARZ explains on SlatorPod. Canada-based MARZ, which stands for Monsters Aliens Robots Zombies, was founded in 2018 to leverage AI and bring quantifiable metrics like time and cost to the business of visual effects (VFX). Bronfman recounts how the...

Florian and Esther discuss the language industry news of the week, where amid ChatGPT 's new enterprise launch, Florian tested ChatGPT's translation quality and came across mistranslations and awkward phrasing. Florian highlights the launch of the Slator Pro Guide: Subtitling and Captioning , providing an overview of its content and use cases. The discussion shifted to Meta's latest...

Georg Ell, CEO of Phrase , joins SlatorPod to talk about key moments since he joined the localization platform in May 2022 , merging Memsource into the Phrase brand , and the opportunities of AI-driven growth of content requiring localization. Georg discusses Phrase’s product offering, which includes machine translation (MT) aggregator Phrase Translate and proprietary MT engine Phrase NextMT, wher...

Joining SlatorPod this week is Longyue Wang , a Research Scientist at Tencent AI Lab , where he is involved in the research and practical applications of machine translation ( MT ) and natural language processing ( NLP ). Longyue Longyue expands on Tencent’s approach to language technology where they integrate MT with Tencent Translate ( TranSmart ). He highlights how Chinese-to-English MT has mad...

Florian and Esther discuss the language industry news from over the past month, where NWN Carousel, a Massachusetts-based cloud communications company, secured a USD 6.5 million contract with Baltimore, Maryland , to provide AI-powered multilingual emergency 9-1-1 services. Meta has unveiled Llama 2 , its latest large language model, trained on 40% more data. Despite its extensive training, the mo...

In this week’s SlatorPod, we are joined by Florian Stègre, Founder of Checksub , to discuss how the SaaS platform powers subtitling and dubbing for SMEs and enterprise clients. Florian's entrepreneurial journey began after graduating from business school and founding video production company, ROOM Agency, which laid the foundation for Checksub. Checksub primarily serves SMEs and enterprises,...

Rocio Martinez, VP of Language Services at Jellyfish , joins SlatorPod to talk about the role of creative content localization at the digital marketing agency. Rocio explains that while the language services team at Jellyfish function as an LSP, their positioning in the market is broader, and they act as an internal solution provider that supports the various divisions within Jellyfish. She emphas...

In this week’s SlatorPod, we are joined by Graham Neubig , Associate Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, to discuss his research on multilingual natural language processing ( NLP ) and machine translation ( MT ). Graham discusses the research at Neulab , where they focus on various areas of NLP, including incorporating broad knowledge bases into NLP models and code generat...

Florian and Esther discuss the language industry news over the past month, with ChatGPT traffic hitting its peak in May 2023 and large language models being released left, right, and center. The EU Commission (EC) unveiled the launch of a pilot program that will see the EC use its own machine translation tool to translate certain press releases. In mid-June, media localization company Dotsub annou...

Deepdub Co-founder and CEO, Ofir Krakowski, joins SlatorPod to talk about the AI dubbing platform’s goal to make content more accessible through automation and human collaboration. Ofir’s experience in the Israeli Air Force's machine learning and innovation department led him to use his knowledge in deep learning and generative AI to co-found Deepdub with his brother, Nir. The CEO outlines th...

ICON plc ’s Senior Vice President of Commercialisations & Outcomes, Brian Mallon, joins SlatorPod to shed light on the crucial role of language services within clinical research organizations ( CROs ). Brian recounts ICON's growth journey, from a team of five in Dublin back in 1990 to its present-day workforce of over 41,000 across 50 countries. Brian outlines the clinical cycle for drugs...

Florian and Esther discuss the language industry news of the week, covering key takeaways from SlatorCon Remote such as lip sync AI dubbing demos from NeuralGarage and how FIFA and DeepL tackle sports localization. After unveiling its first-half results for 2023 , RWS CEO Ian El-Mokadem emphasized the advantages of utilizing AI and large language models ( LLMs ) to enhance existing products. In M&...

Unilingo Founder and CEO, Farbod Mansorian, joins SlatorPod to talk about launching the leading dubbing provider for Youtube creators, enabling them to get billions of additional views. As a regular consumer of YouTube, Farbod came across TED Talks, and after translating a talk for his mother, the idea to bring this to other non-English speaking communities was born. This idea evolved into Uniling...

Nic McMahon , CEO of United Language Group ( ULG ), joins SlatorPod to talk about the language service provider’s (LSP) mission in connecting language and culture to create meaningful outcomes. Nic recounts his journey in the language industry, from junior project manager at SDL to ascending to the role of CEO of ULG . He highlights ULG’s goal to go beyond translation services and prioritizing out...

This week Diego Bartolome, Founder of sintetic.ai , joined us on SlatoPod to talk about empowering companies to achieve more with generative artificial intelligence, including Slator with Slator Answers . Diego discusses how he collaborated with Slator to create a chat interface that allows Slator subscribers to question an AI model specifically trained on our research, podcast transcripts, and th...

Joining SlatorPod this week is Steven Piantadosi , Associate Professor of Psychology at UC Berkeley. Steven also runs the computation and language lab (colala) at UC Berkeley, which studies the basic computational processes involved in human language and cognition. Steven talks about the emergence of large language models ( LLMs ) and how it has reshaped our understanding of language processing an...

Florian and Esther discuss the launch of Slator’s flagship 2023 Language Industry Market Report. The 140-page report provides a comprehensive view of the global language services and language technology industry, which Slator estimates grew over 4% to nearly USD 28bn in 2022 on the back of a strong first half. The duo talk about OpenAI’s new endeavor to enforce its branding guidelines to prevent c...

Florian and Esther discuss the language industry news of the week, covering the latest in large language models with Custom. MT’s Chat GPT in Localization Part II , SlatorPod’s The Great ChatGPT and Translation Debate , and Hugging Face’s launch of HuggingChat . Belgium-based language service provider (LSP) Jonckers sells a majority stake to investment firm Mayfair Equity Partners , following stro...

In this week’s SlatorPod, Fireflies.ai CEO Krish Ramineni joins us to talk about scaling the AI meeting assistant and building on the latest advances in large language models. Krish starts with his journey to co-founding Fireflies, which began as a drone delivery service and as a result of conversations with customers and investors, evolved into an AI meeting assistant to solve their own pain poin...