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After two decades in operation, GALA’s become an undoubtedly prominent organization in our field. Here, Cameron Rasmusson takes a few steps back with GALA leadership to trace back the organization’s history and learn a bit more about what’s in store for GALA’s future.

With the democratization of AI, an engineer can build an MT model in one day. However, beating Google or DeepL in quality, performance, and market presence is another story. So, who are the teams that are able to compete, stand tall, and beat the odds in the market of MT? Here are some of our top picks.

When we reach the singularity in machine translation, there’s a good chance it will change the way we teach our future language professionals — MultiLingual sought out expert insights from language educators all across the world to learn a bit more about how they anticipate technological innovation will impact higher education.

The translation industry will still be home to many jobs after singularity is achieved, but Adam Wooten thinks those jobs are likely to look different. In this piece for MultiLingual, he proposes a few thoughts of his own on how the singularity will affect the language services industry and change the role of human translators.

Although machine translation already has a big role to play in other areas of the field, literary translators haven’t quite adopted it so readily — and perhaps it’s for good reason. In this article, Angela Gabrielle Fabunan looks into the role of machine translation when it comes to translating literary works.

Are you a code talker? If you’re not, that might change after reading Ewandro Magalhães’ most recent piece for MultiLingual. Here, KUDO’s chief language officer takes a look at how ciphers work and the fascinating history of cryptography.

In his latest column for MultiLingual, Tim Brookes of the Endangered Alphabets Project decides to take a look at how ChatGPT fares when it comes to chatting about endangered alphabets. Testing it out with his friend Olgierd Uziemblo, he’s less than impressed with the results — learn why in this column.

The latest wave of industrial automation with technologies like hyperautomation, workflow orchestration, and generative AI has the potential to widen the range of tasks and jobs software can perform, raising concerns about the impact on jobs and transformations of roles. As we face these questions, Bruno Bitter takes a look into the past to gain some insight on where the the language industry is h...

If you’ve been trying to wrap your head around the concepts of blockchain, Web3.0, or the metaverse, look no further. Nimdzi’s Nadežda Jakubková has you covered with this in-depth report in the Innovator’s Journal on these pressing topics and how they could impact the language industry in the near future.

Did you know that the amount of content produced by humanity each day is estimated to be 2.5 quintillion bytes? That's more bytes of text than there are stars in the observable universe. In this piece for MultiLingual, Bart Mączyński takes a look at how the translation industry is coping with the explosion of content and the challenges it faces in meeting demand.

At GlobalSaké’s Q3 Interactive Virtual Event this past September, innovative localization teams from companies like BLEND and Subway — yes, the sandwich company — shared how they incorporate artificial intelligence into their localization workflows. Here, Stefan Huyghe recaps some of the technology and perspectives that folks shared at the event.

The year 2022 was filled with impressive human-quality claims in the machine-learning field with large language models and general pre-trained transformers, but experts have raised their voices about some serious issues.

If you’ve been following  MultiLingual  for a while now, you may remember our “ Weekly Shorts ” series from a while back, where we rounded up a week’s worth of language and language industry news every Friday. Though we ended the series in the summer of 2021, we’re pleased to bring back a revamped version today: “The Week in Review.”

It’s a big week for LSP Phrase, with the company announcing the most massive product release in its history, and company CEO Georg Ell is excited to talk about it.

On Tuesday, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) celebrated  International Mother Language Day  with a series of panels on multilingual education.

This same technology that enabled neural machine translation to improve machine translation is now finding its way into seemingly unrelated products (think ChatGPT or Dall·E). The translation “problem” has not been solved with the latest advancements in NMT, but there are lessons to be learned in other professions from how the professional translation community has been affected by and adapted to...

While Nimdzi is still working hard to compile this year’s edition of  the Nimdzi 100  — the ranking of the largest language service providers (LSPs) in the world — they can already confirm the top six positions on our ranking.

How many language service providers (LSPs) are there in the world? In some ways, this question is similar to asking how many grains of sand there are (though maybe not quite as speculative as that).

A recently introduced senate bill in Oregon is drumming up a bit of controversy among healthcare interpreters and language service providers (LSPs) that work in the state.

Rihanna wasn’t the only star at the Super Bowl halftime show last night. Justina Miles interpreted Rihanna’s performance in American Sign Language (ASL), allowing audience members who were deaf or hard of hearing to enjoy the lyrics and essence of Rihanna’s performance in their language. 

Move over,  ChatGPT  — there’s a new generative AI tool in town.

‘Ōlelo Hawai’i (that is, the Hawaiian language) just might be getting a boost in the state of Hawaii’s public schools soon. Last month, state representative Diamond Garcia introduced  House Bill 157 , which would drastically increase the number of students in Hawaiian schools studying the language by making it a mandatory subject.

ProZ.com, the world’s biggest translation network and networking marketplace, is mobilizing volunteers to offer free (or “ pro bono ”) translation and interpreting services to nonprofits across the globe in a wide range of sectors. Just a few months old, this new project is already hitting some key milestones. 

Fifteen literary translators and their work received high accolades earlier this week, with the announcement of the PEN Translates awards.

MultiLingual  caught up with blockchain expert and former director of Lionbridge AI Jane Nemcova to learn a bit more about what blockchain is and whether or not language industry professionals should indeed be keeping their eye on developments in blockchain technology.