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TikTok begins rolling out translation, updated transcription feature
TikTok, a popular video-based social media platform, just became the latest big tech company to launch its own translation feature.
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Song title translation on Spotify complicates search for users
Spotify recently addressed user concerns regarding the automatic translation of song names into English, making titles in languages such as Chinese particularly difficult to...
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BigScience launches open-source LLM, BLOOM
BigScience, an artificial intelligence (AI) research initiative, recently launched BLOOM, an open-source large language model (LLM) that aims to make such technology more accessible.
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The Evolution of Airbnb’s Localization Strategy
In 2018, Airbnb began a major transformation in its localization strategy and operations, developing and executing countless decisions, projects, products, processes and improvements —...
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ATRAE president elaborates on open letter to Iyuno-SDI
In a statement to MultiLingual, Iris Permuy, president of ATRAE, elaborated on the open letter, which claimed that subtitlers and audiovisual translators face low...
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Creating a language access plan for an unwritten language
Translating a well-documented, widely spoken language is hard enough. Translating one that doesn’t even have a standardized writing system is even harder. That’s the...