October 2023 newsletter

News, jobs, community questions and more about machine translation from October 2023

🗞️ 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.

🚀 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.

📚 Research and reports

Meta’s path to text and speech translation model SeamlessM4T.
Google Deepmind uses machine translation to test ReST’s 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.

❔ Questions

How do we normalise by the average length of the references values in TER?
What are the DO’s and DON’Ts when starting an MT program based on Microsoft Translator?