Published time: 3 Dec, 2017 14:45 French President Emmanuel Macron had to switch to English at his Paris press conference with Nechervan Idris Barzani, the prime minister of Iraq’s Kurdistan region. The conference had been interrupted several times due to translation problems. The event was plagued by a series of translation glitches, with the French […]
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This Week In The Business: Lost in Translation
QUOTE | “It was never our intention to threaten people with copyright strikes, but we clearly chose the wrong tone for how to communicate this.” – Atlus apologizes for the threatening tone of its initial Persona 5 streaming guidelines, which explicitly threatened people with copyright strikes, as well as content ID claims and account suspensions. […]
Skype’s real-time voice translation tool now works in Japanese
Microsoft is expanding its real-time Skype translation tool for spoken word into Japanese, its tenth language. The software giant first introduced Skype Translator in English and Spanish back in 2014, and it has since expanded into a number of additional languages, including Mandarin, Italian, Russian, and Arabic. In a nutshell, Skype Translator leverages artificial intelligence […]
Google Translate starts using neural machine translation for Hindi, Russian, Vietnamese
Google today is announcing that it’s switching to a modern approach called neural machine translation for translations of text in Hindi, Russian, and Vietnamese in its Google Translate app. The shift away from Google’s phrase-based machine translation system will result in more natural, higher-quality translations. Google adopted this method to translate from English into Chinese […]
