#34 SDL Soars, What’s Sockeye, Who Owns Systran, Loc at Infobip, Aussie Troubles

In amongst arguing about salmon in this week’s SlatorPod, Florian and Esther talk about SDL’s shares, which rallied on the release of their H1 2020 financial results. Esther discusses SYSTRAN’s new owner, South Korea-based STIC Investments, who took a controlling stake in the MT provider in July 2020 alongside a consortium of minority investors. 

The two share localization insights from Croatian cloud communications company Infobip, who recently hired an LSP and a translation management system (TMS) provider and implemented a continuous loc model.

Florian gives an update on Sockeye (not the salmon). Amazon’s open source toolkit for neural machine translation (NMT) has just been released in its second iteration, Sockeye 2, and is now available on Github.

Esther talks about how mistranslations are causing a stir over in Australia this week. Problems observed in the translations of coronavirus-related public messaging have prompted the state of Victoria to announce additional funds for health interpreting and translation of materials relating to the pandemic.