Feb 2024 Top Trending News

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Top News for Language Learning 

  • Second Language Acquisition – Dogme & Direct Method – Link

  • 83% of students prefer studying with multiple teachers, and other new insights on language courses – Link

  • Languages Of The Future – Link

  • African Languages Conference (AFLC) 2024 – Link

  • Fear or Fortune? How AI is Changing the Language Industry Forever – Link

  • Indigenous Language Hub Faces Funding Crisis: The Vital Need for Urban Language Revitalization – Link

  • New Insights Unveiled in Language Study: Guessing the Meaning of Foreign Words Based on Sound – Link

  • Google’s Bard Becomes Gemini and Unveils Ultra 1.0 and Mobile App Innovation – Link

  • Cherokee Nation Granted $900,000 to Enhance Cultural Legacy through Language Preservation – Link

  • Empowering Language Education: ECML’s Comprehensive Approach for 2024-2027 – Link

  • TransLinguist Enhances Product with Voice Speech AI Amid $67B Language Market Surge – Link

  • Welocalize Releases Essential Guide to Multilingual E-Learning and Localizing Course Development for a Global Audience – Link

  • Jonckers and Acclaro to Form New AI-enabled Language Services Powerhouse – Link

  • Nordtext acquires Transfluent, Expanding Language Solutions Portfolio – Link

  • Straker Launches LanguageCloud: a “no platform” solution making light work of the translation process – Link

Top News for Translation / Interpretation 

  • Key Considerations for Choosing a Transcription School for Certification – Link

  • Five Benefits of Using a Transcription Service – Link

  • Translation Memory Management – Link

  • Enter CroissantLLM, an Open-Source LLM for Efficient Translation and Easy Deployment – Link

  • Dubbing Startup CAMB.AI Raises USD 4M in Seed Round – Link

  • The State-of-the-Art in Machine Translation with Language Weaver’s Bart Maczynski – Link

  • Would Shakespeare Approve of the Other Bard’s Translations? – Link

  • Associations Challenge Spanish Government’s Translation and Interpreting Tender – Link

  • Meet MT-Ranker, a New Machine Translation Evaluation System – Link

  • WIPO Adds Machine Translation Post-Editing Positions to Annual PCT Fellowship – Link

  • How Large Language Models Fare Against ‘Classic’ Machine Translation Challenges – Link

  • Implementing Language AI in the Enterprise with Translated’s John Tinsley – Link

  • Live Speech-to-Speech AI Translation Goes Commercial – Link

  • The State of AI in Literary Translation – Link

  • Fine-Tuned LLMs Are Good at Document-Level Machine Translation, Research Finds – Link

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