#40 Acolad Buys AMPLEXOR; GLOBO's Gene Schriver talks On-Demand Interpreting

Florian and Esther are joined by Gene Schriver, CEO and Founder of US-based on-demand interpreting tech and services provider GLOBO. Stay tuned for the interview section to hear Gene share his insights on video remote interpreting (VRI), telehealth platforms, helping interpreters cope with the demands of the job, and more.

Your regular hosts, Florian and Esther, talk in depth about this week’s top language industry story: the acquisition by France-based Acolad Group of rival AMPLEXOR to become Continental Europe’s largest LSP — once the deal passes antitrust clearance, that is.

Esther shares a few key findings from the Chartered Institute of Linguists’ (CIOL) recent survey on the relationship between linguists and LSPs, which found that only 5% of translators and interpreters prefer to receive assignments through TMS platforms.

The two discuss optical character recognition (OCR), a persisting project management headache, and talk about why big tech, LSPs, startups, and the research community are all invested in finding ways to improve recognition of text within troublesome “uneditable” files.