We’re seeing a rise in the number of projects and requests that rely on raw machine translation. When Custom.MT started, clients wanted to train models to improve the productivity of human translators, and to reduce the cost. Today, more than half of the requests we get are about doing the translation fully automatically, without a […]
The year 2021 marked the arrival of speech to speech translation in the commercial world.
Scientists are working on making the underlying technology smoother and more accurate, engineers are integrating it into practical use cases. At the same time, there is an explosion in neural voices. Between July and September, three companies in this area got funded, Murf.ai, Wellsaid Labs, and Lovo.ai. As a result, localization professionals can now choose from 20+ providers of pre-made voices, or even clone their own voice to generate personalized speeches.
In this webinar, Sathish Chander, the Data Product Director at Booking.com, talks about the story of how his team trained Booking.com’s engines using open-source data sets and toolkits. Katerina Gasova, Linguistic Services Director at RWS, presentes how RWS, the largest translation company in the world, determines the cost for expert editing of machine translation, and how the production teams […]
