Localization Today

Camila Amici reviews Carmen Cisneros’ Take the Plunge — How to Dive into Vendor Management and Enjoy It, and had more than a few flashbacks to the year 2016.

With the emergence of new AI tools and solutions practically every week, the concept of singularity in artificial intelligence (AI) comes once more to the spotlight. This hypothetical future in which AI will have advanced to the point of gaining self-awareness, becoming sentient, and surpassing human intelligence potentially leading to unforeseen changes to human civilization is a matter of understandable concern for many.

Advancements in communication technology are helping bring the world closer together without ever having to leave the house. Oddmund Braaten from Inerprefy analyses the benefits an limitations of AI in remote interpreting.

Translators have long debated over what advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) could mean for their jobs. Interpreters too. It’s no surprise, then, that improvements in AI-powered dubbing tools have been causing a stir among those who work in audiovisual localization.

The European Language Industry Association (ELIA) hosted its seventh edition of Together 2023 from Feb. 22 to 24, 2023 in Rome, Italy. More than 250 attendees joined them at the Barceló Aran Mantegna hotel.

Ever since its launch this past November, ChatGPT’s become something of a household name. Although it may not produce the most impressive content just yet, educators, copywriters, and translators — just to name a few — have all brought into question its ability to affect the landscape of their respective career paths. That question was at the forefront of Custom.MT’s “ChatGPT in Localization” webinar on Wednesday. 

While AI may be able to perform some tasks traditionally carried out by translators, it is unlikely to fully replace the role of human interpreters in the near future. 

It doesn’t seem like ChatGPT will be leaving the news cycle anytime soon now — this week, OpenAI announced that it’s releasing an API that’ll allow businesses to build the technology into their own applications.

Scholastic and SoapBox Labs have recently come together to make speech recognition technology accessible to elementary schools across America. 

At the most recent LocWorld conference in San Jose, Jack Welde won the Process Innovation Challenge prize for a new program feature that supplies translators with invaluable context. Better context means better, more accurate translations. How does it work? Well, perhaps it’s better if the man himself explains it directly.