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Linguistic diversity is increasing in the US. What does that mean for language access?
In the United States, the number of people who speak a language other than English at home is rising faster than those who mainly...
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Soccer or Football? Beckham and Manning couldn’t solve it, so we did
If you’ve been watching the FIFA World Cup in Qatar, no doubt you can by now quote parts of the Frito Lays commercial featuring...
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Research from Translated projects that MT is nearing human-like levels of performance
The quality of machine translation (MT) is quickly approaching that of human translators, according to research published today by Translated.
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What do the words “permacrisis,” “gaslighting,” and “goblin mode” all have in common?
As 2022 comes to a close, English-language dictionary publishers are selecting the words that best encapsulate the character and ambiance of the last 365...
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NVIDIA researchers win first place in Telugu ASR competition
Researchers at the international tech company NVIDIA recently developed an award-winning automatic speech recognition (ASR) model for Telugu.
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Looking at Duolingo’s end-of-year report on language learning trends
Duolingo now gives users insights into their language learning habits for the past year, all in the form of a neatly packed Instagram story-like...