June 2026 newsletter
News, jobs, community questions and more about machine translation from June 2026
๐๏ธ News
- Audible reports 50 million minutes of AI-narrated content played.
- Quebec language laws open the door to automated web translation.
๐ผ Business
- ModelFront announces outcome-based pricing.
- DeepL acquires Mixhalo for low-latency audio in live events.
- DeepL shifts data from EU to US jurisdiction via Amazon partnership.
- TransPerfect replaces Widn.AI with GlobalLinkNow.
- Youdao reports MT growth in Q1 earnings.
- Interpreters Unlimited adds AI interpretation to GSA contract.
๐ Launches
- Google launches Gemini 3.5 Live Translate.
- Alibaba launches Qwen3.5-LiveTranslate-Flash, real-time speech translation with voice cloning.
- ElevenLabs releases Dubbing v2 with speaker emotion preservation.
- OneMeta launches real-time interpretation for emergency services in Mexico ahead of FIFA 2026.
- T-Mobile launches beta live translation.
- Daewoo E&C launches AI translator for foreign workers.
- A California police department adds live translation for officers.
- Xiaomi launches clip-on earbuds with AI translation.
๐ Research
- WMT 2026 announces a shared task on translation quality evaluation.
- Linguists flag 71% of TranslateGemma-12b subtitle translations.
- Fine-tuning TranslateGemma-4B for English-Welsh translation.
๐๏ธ Interviews
- Macduff Hughes, former Google Translate Director of Engineering, on the 2016 neural MT transition and the LLM era.
โ Questions
- MTQE as a workflow trigger in production
- AI tool for book translation
- Real-time translation on Quest AR
- Subtitle localization QC
- Multilingual WordPress plugins
- Translating a 70MB PDF
- LaTeX transcription and translation
- Reliability signals in AI translation
- Omni and OpenNovel for translation
- Translating PDFs with no selectable text
- Japanese MT beyond the โeasiestโ answer
- AI voice-over for non-English
- Video transcription for non-European languages
- AI tools for technical docs
๐ Events
- EAMT 2026 โ 15 - 18 June โ Tilburg ๐ณ๐ฑ
- NeTTIT 2026 โ 24 - 27 June โ Dubrovnik ๐ญ๐ท
- IWSLT 2026 โ 3 - 4 July โ San Diego ๐บ๐ธ
- AMTA 2026 โ 31 August - 2 September โ Quรฉbec City ๐จ๐ฆ
- MT Marathon 2026 โ 14 - 18 September โ Karlsruhe ๐ฉ๐ช
- SF Tech Week Translation AI โ 8 October โ San Francisco ๐บ๐ธ
- WMT 2026 โ November โ Budapest ๐ญ๐บ
๐ป Jobs
- Senior Software Engineer, Localization Engineering at Autodesk โ Vancouver ๐จ๐ฆ
- Research Engineer, Machine Translation at Sanas โ Palo Alto ๐บ๐ธ
- Senior Applied Scientist, Translation Services at Amazon โ Hyderabad ๐ฎ๐ณ
- AI Researcher / ML Engineer, ASR and Speech at LILT โ Boston ๐บ๐ธ
- Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA โ Hamburg ๐ฉ๐ช
- AI Technical Program Manager, Localisation at Canva โ London ๐ฌ๐ง
- Software Engineer, Machine Translation at Solerity โ Fort Meade ๐บ๐ธ
- Solution Architect, Language/Translation at DeepL โ New York ๐บ๐ธ
- AI Research Manager, Translation Quality at DeepL โ London ๐ฌ๐ง
- Staff Research Scientist, Language AI at DeepL โ Munich ๐ฉ๐ช
- Software Engineer, Localization at OpenAI โ San Francisco ๐บ๐ธ
- Localization Product Strategist at Google โ Boulder ๐บ๐ธ
- Senior AI/NLP/ML Expert at Stott and May โ Brussels ๐ง๐ช
- Prompt Engineer, Translation Management at Schmieder Translations โ Telangana ๐ฎ๐ณ
- Member of Technical Staff, Multilingual at Cohere โ New York ๐บ๐ธ
- Machine Learning Engineer, Globalization at Netflix โ United States ๐บ๐ธ
- ๐ 2 fully-funded PhD positions at FBK โ Trento ๐ฎ๐น