October 2023 newsletter
News, jobs, community questions and more about machine translation from October 2023
๐๏ธ News
- XL8 raises $7.5 million to enhance products with GenAI.
- Gizmodo replaces Spanish writers with machine translation.
- Registration to AMTA 2023 is open!
- Machine Translate launches coverage of quality estimation integrations in translation management systems.
๐ Launches
- Spotify launches voice translation pilot for podcasts.
- HeyGen launches a technology that can translate video.
- Google debuts new multilingual machine translation model for low resource languages.
- memoQ launches Adaptive Generative Translation (AGT).
- Firefox launches its own machine translation feature.
- Microsoft launches translated transcription for Teams premium users.
- YouTube Health is collaborating with health content creators to pilot Aloud, a multilingual dubbing tool.
- Amazon Alexa launches Call Translation, an autocaption feature.
- Translated debuts Trust Attention for improved translation quality.
More product and feature launches โ
๐ Research and reports
- Metaโs path to text and speech translation model SeamlessM4T.
- Google Deepmind uses machine translation to test ReSTโs ability to improve large language models.
- Slator reviews ChatGPT translation quality.
- Speech Wikimedia releases a 200 GB audio dataset to train ASR and speech translation.
- Unbabel releases open-source fine-tuned LLM for quality estimation.
More research and report news โ
โ Questions
- How do we normalise by the average length of the references values in TER?
- What are the DOโs and DONโTs when starting an MT program based on Microsoft Translator?
More questions from the community โ
โฐ๏ธ Deadlines
- Machine and Computer-assisted Interpreting - LANS-TTS call for papers - 1 April 2024
๐ Events
- TAUS Annual Conference 2023 - 4 - 6 October - Salt Lake City, Utah ๐บ๐ธ
- MATEO online launch - 13 October - online ๐
- AMTA 2023 - 8 November - online ๐
- WMT23 - 6 - 7 December - Singapore ๐ธ๐ฌ
โฆ And the Machine Translate meetup will be about adaptive machine translation. Register here!
๐ป Jobs
- Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation Expert at Cronos - Luxembourg ๐ฑ๐บ
- NLP Engineer (Machine Translation at ByteDance - Singapore ๐ธ๐ฌ
- Research Scientist at Meta AI/FAIR - United States ๐บ๐ธ
- Senior Research Engineer - Machine Learning (Machine Translation) at Allegro - Poland ๐ต๐ฑ
- Software Engineer (Machine Translation Infrastructure) at SPECTRAFORCE - Seattle, Washington ๐บ๐ธ
- Machine Translation Engineer at Apple - Ireland ๐ฎ๐ช