SlatorPod

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...

Tony Abrahams , CEO and Co-founder of Ai-Media , joins SlatorPod to talk about the journey to building a market leader in multilingual live captioning . Tony discusses his transition from working in finance to co-founding Ai-Media with Alex Jones and introducing large-scale captioning to Australian Pay TV. He gives an overview of Ai-Media’s technology stack, which delivers high-quality automatic c...

This week, SlatorPod hosts its very first panel debate with guests Adam Bittlingmayer, CEO of ModelFront , Varshul Gupta, Co-founder of Dubverse , and Mihai Vlad, General Manager of Language Weaver . To start off, the panel participants reflect on their recent experience with ChatGPT since its launch in November 2022 and how this shapes their views on large language models ( LLMs ). Varshul and Ad...

In this week’s SlatorPod, we are joined by Christian Federmann , Principal Research Manager at Microsoft , where he works on machine translation ( MT ) evaluation and language expansion. Christian recounts his journey from working at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence under the guidance of AI pioneer Hans Uszkoreit to joining Microsoft and building out Microsoft Translator . He...

In this week’s SlatorPod, we are joined by Nikola Nikolov , an experienced researcher, engineer, YouTuber , and consultant in natural language processing ( NLP ) and machine learning . Nikola talks about the evolution of large language models ( LLMs ), where the core technology remains the same, but the number of parameters has grown exponentially and the capacity to fine-tune models on human data...

Florian and Esther are back for a packed news pod. The two catch up with OpenAI announcing the release of its much anticipated GPT-4 large language model . They unpack OpenAI’s research on GPT or GPT-powered systems’ impact on the labor force, including specifics around how exposed translators and interpreters are to large language models. Over at the University of Edinburgh, researchers looked at...

Voiseed CEO and Co-founder Andrea Ballista joins SlatorPod to discuss the machine dubbing startup’s approach to operating and developing their AI-based virtual voice engine, Revoiceit . Andrea talks about how his passion for music as a child led him to founding audio localization studio Binari Sonori, which he sold to Keywords Studios in 2014, and why he is now launching Voiseed. He shares his imp...

Liane Kirsch, CEO of Cinescript , joins SlatorPod to talk about specializing in the audiovisual industry and working with global TV and film productions. Liane discusses her route into the language industry, from studying philology and translating contracts to working as an on-set interpreter and dialogue coach for international productions. Throughout this journey she founded Cinescript and for f...

Mark Howorth , CEO of VSI , joins SlatorPod to talk about his plans for leading and scaling the media localization provider. Mark discusses his route into the media and entertainment (M&E) and language space as well as his path to joining VSI . Mark took up his role at the leading media localization provider in January 2023 after spending five years as the CEO of SDI Media including overseeing...

In this week’s SlatorPod, we are joined by David Orrego-Carmona , Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick to discuss his research on language technologies, audiovisual translation , and users of translation. David shares his background studying translation in Colombia and how it led to the formation of a research group focusing on audiovisual translation and subtitling . He outlines how h...

Florian and Esther discuss the language industry news of the week, with the world’s most popular YouTuber, MrBeast, launching a dubbing services company called Creator Global. MrBeast ’s latest entrepreneurial move comes as YouTube confirmed it will roll out its multi-track audio to thousands more users. Over in Australia, Ai-Media shared its financial results for the first half of 2023 , with rev...

In this week’s SlatorPod, we are joined by Gráinne Maycock, to discuss her role as Chief Revenue Officer at Super Agency Acolad . Gráinne begins with her journey studying translation and interpreting to working in various sales and account management roles, before the LSP she worked for was acquired by Acolad . She then talks about how her role as Chief Revenue Officer goes beyond sales, specifica...

Florian and Esther discuss the language industry news of the week, kicking off with highlights from Slator’s latest Game Localization Report . The 100-page report outlines the role that localization plays in bringing games to life and onto the market. In funding news, former Keywords Studios ’ Exec, Andrea Ballista, raised EUR 1m in a seed round for his new machine dubbing venture, Voiseed . The f...

Ramsri Goutham Golla joins SlatorPod to talk about his creator journey in AI SaaS (software-as-a-service), AI consulting, and AI courses. Ramsri discusses his shift from software engineer in Silicon Valley to entrepreneur in India with AI SaaS apps Questgen.ai , Supermeme.ai , and Supertranslate.ai . He shares how a “ build in public ” strategy can help inspire people to follow your journey. Ramsr...

Florian and Esther discuss the language industry news of the week, with TransPerfect sharing its financial results for 2022 . The Super Agency grew by 4.6% to USD 1.16bn in 2022. CEO, Phil Shawe , disclosed that half the growth was organic and the other half was attributed to M&A. Natural language processing startup, Cohere, is reportedly raising hundreds of millions of dollars at a valuation...

Florian and Esther discuss the language industry news of the week, kicking off with a sneak peek into the brand new Slator 2022 Language Industry M&A and Funding Report . Spanning 44 pages, the report covers 62 M&A transactions and 18 startup and tech funding rounds. Following the latest research in ChatGPT , Intento published an article comparing ChatGPT translations to translations done...

Tanya Bogin, Managing Director of Craft London , joins SlatorPod to talk about the company’s end-to-end creative production services across all media channels and languages. Tanya discusses her route into the language industry; from working as a radio station manager to entering the transcreation industry with Craft. She talks about how the company brings creative ideas to life through cultural ad...