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Florian and Esther discuss the language industry news of the week, with Super Early Bird ending soon for SlatorCon Remote March and a save-the-date announcement for SlatorCon London, scheduled in person for May 23, 2024. Florian talks about how translation GPTs are becoming increasingly available on OpenAI’s GPT store , highlighting the ease of building these models and the payment model for creat...

Florian and Esther discuss the language industry news of the week, with OpenAI recently launching its GPT store, allowing users to create their own GPT chat interfaces without the need for coding. One move that underscores OpenAI's influence in the language space is Albania's consideration of using ChatGPT for translating documents related to its EU accession bid. Duolingo is also report...

Vasco Pedro, Co-founder and CEO of language operations platform Unbabel , joins SlatorPod to talk about the transformative year of 2023 and its impact on the language technology landscape. Vasco discusses the AI boom in 2023, emphasizing the importance of recognizing AI as what he calls a cognitive prosthetic rather than a human replacement. He highlights the need for a new pricing model in transl...

Florian and Esther discuss the language industry news of the week, with the release of Slator’s Pro Guide: Solution Sales for Language Service Providers and more exciting research to come. The duo talk about the latest in language AI, with OpenAI gaining traction as a potential default for machine translation , and the firing and rehiring of CEO Sam Altman. Meanwhile, the European Patent Office ha...

Jonas Ryberg, Chief Globalization Officer of Centific , joins SlatorPod to talk about the evolving language services landscape and Centific's approach to navigating the changes brought about by generative AI and large language models (LLMs). Jonas looks back on the opportunities and challenges of 2023, with the impact of ChatGPT triggering clients, who are facing budget constraints, to redefi...

Diego Antista, Co-Founder and CEO of GetGloby , joins SlatorPod to talk about the complexity of translating and transcreating digital ad campaigns. Diego shares a pivotal moment when he discovered that the cost of translating campaigns for multicultural audiences was a significant barrier for advertisers, leading to the creation of GetGloby with fellow former Googler, Juan Fusoni. Diego shares ins...

Florian and Esther discuss the language industry news of the week, with the release of Slator’s new Pro Guide: Scaling an LSP Key Account . The duo analyzed the job requirements and responsibilities for an AI Localization Analyst at Chubb , an insurance company. Florian discusses when he, for the first time, realized he briefly fell for a third-party-created video. A speech by Joana Cotar, a membe...

Gabriel Fairman, Founder and CEO of Bureau Works , joins SlatorPod to talk about the potential of generative AI in translation management. Gabriel shares the origin story of Bureau Works, where over the years his perspective shifted towards viewing translation as an information management challenge, leading Bureau Works to transition into a tech-enabled business. Gabriel discusses the challenges a...

Pablo Navascués, Managing Director of global content and SEO agency Key Content , joins SlatorPod to discuss the impact of generative AI on content creation and SEO. Pablo explains how content strategy and SEO strategy have become more interconnected, emphasizing the need for high-quality, user-oriented content. He acknowledges that AI can be valuable for scaling content production. However, he hi...

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...