Florian and Esther discuss the language industry news of the past few weeks, starting with RWS’s proposed acquisition of Acolad and what the deal means for consolidation among the largest language ...
On July 31, 2026, the Scottish Government announced the contract award for its new “Interpreting, Translation and ...
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Omilia, a 20 year-old voice-based customer experience system provider, raises USD 67m as it looks to accelerate growth in ...
UK translation agency Lingo Service has opened up what it believes is the most transparent buying experience in the certified ...
OpenAI has introduced two new automatic speech recognition (ASR) models that it now recommends for new live and file-based transcription integrations. GPT-Live-Transcribe provides real-time ...
Large language models are widely used across localization workflows, from translation and terminology management to language quality assessment (LQA). Achieving consistent results depends not only on ...
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The browser-based Voice Agent Builder allows users to design, deploy, and manage voice agents without writing code. xAI describes the Voice Agent Builder as being designed for “operators and ...
On June 30, 2026, the AI language learning startup Lucida AI announced raising a GBP 5.3m (USD 7m) seed funding round. Velocity Capital led the round, with participation from Next Tier Ventures, Look ...
Buyers of data-for-AI have changed. The market was once driven largely by governments and big tech companies building speech recognition, machine translation, and digital assistants. Today, frontier ...
The European Commission has selected the EUROPA consortium, led by Italian AI company Domyn, to develop an open-source large language model (LLM) covering all 24 official European Union languages. The ...