July 2026 newsletter

News, jobs, community questions and more about machine translation from July 2026

🗞️ News

AMTA opens registration for its 2026 conference in Québec City.
TAUS opens registration for its conference in Vancouver.
LocWorld 56 opens registration for its conference in Vancouver.
Romhack.ing, a hub for fan-translated retro games, pulls machine-translated versions to protect human ones.

🚀 Launches

DeepL launches Translation Flow, connecting enterprise apps like Google Drive and SharePoint to its MT, glossaries, style guides, and human review routing.
RWS launches Trados Studio 2026 with context-aware AI, native Language Weaver Pro, and LLM support.
Ray-Ban Meta glasses now support real-time Korean translation.
xAI launches 21 multilingual voices for Grok’s Voice Agent Builder, now supporting 25+ languages.
TAUS launches a Canadian French quality estimation model.
Lara Translate launches audio-to-audio translation, mobile image translation, and Microsoft Edge support.
Gradium launches stt-translate and s2s-translate speech models.
Gyeonggi Province launches a multilingual AI portal with integrated MT for foreign residents.
NagaTranslate adds a new domain and voice (TTS and speech recognition).
DeepManga is a new open-source manga translation tool built on PaddleOCR and Gemini.

🛠️ Community launches

An open-source machine translator for indigenous languages.
A Chrome extension for translating webpages, PDFs, and DOCX files using your own LLM API.
A Chrome extension that shows Google Translate output for any selected text.
An offline, lightweight version of the OPUS-MT/Marian translation engine.
A tool to mask sensitive data locally before sending it for AI translation.
Local, real-time subtitles and translation for streamers.
A translation quality-check tool with MQM-based error annotations, back-translation, and style guide support.

📚 Research

🎙️ Podcasts and videos

❔ Questions