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TechCrunch

OpenAI releases new voice models for more natural live conversations

OpenAI says its new voice mode can speak and listen at the same time, a key ability for live translation.

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Localization Industry

(35 articles)
Nimdzi
Nimdzi Today

Lessons in Localization: Kahoot!

In a rapidly evolving educational landscape, leveraging interactive learning tools like Kahoot! is vital for f…

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Slator
Slator Today

Top 10 Takeaways from Key Speech Translation and AI Research Conference

The IWSLT 2026 Evaluation Campaign offers a snapshot of where speech translation research stands today. Here a…

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ELIA
ELIA Today

Understanding Seville Through Its Language and History

Curated by our Networking Days 2026 local partner, Tatutrad, for your Seville adventure So, you are coming to …

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Slator
Slator Yesterday

xAI Releases No-Code Voice Agent Builder

xAI releases Grok Voice Agent Builder, a no-code platform for designing, deploying, and managing production AI…

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Slator
Slator Yesterday

Netgem CEO Discusses Acquisition of AI Subtitling Startup

Netgem CEO Mathias Hautefort discusses the acquisition of AI startup Bary, which brings automated subtitling t…

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Slator
Slator 2d ago

Revpanda Co-Founder on All-in Global Acquisition

Online gambling marketing company Revpanda acquired game localization company All-in Global. Revpanda will mai…

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Nimdzi
Nimdzi 2d ago

Lessons in Localization: WEEX

In an increasingly globalized world, effective localization is essential for businesses aiming to connect with…

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EST
EST Jul 1

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE EST NEWSLETTER’S EMERGING VOICES COLUMN

The Editors of the EST Newsletter would like to invite PhD students and recent PhD graduates to contribute to …

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ELIA
ELIA Jun 23

2026 Board Election Results:ELIA Welcomes Alp Dilgen, Diego Cresceri andNuria Castro Gay to the Board

The 2026 ELIA Board of Directors election results are in, and we are delighted to announce that Alp Dilgen, Di…

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Nimdzi
Nimdzi Jun 8

The Build-or-Buy Trap of Language AI Platforms

The Build-or-Buy Trap Article written by Laszlo K. Varga. In 2026, the ease of building software with agentic …

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Nimdzi
Nimdzi May 25

Three Key Strategic Shifts in Enterprise Localization for 2026

Perspective written by Laszlo K. Varga. As a localization manager or director, you might be feeling pressure t…

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ELIA
ELIA May 11

Strategic Networking: A Practical Framework for Business and Career Growth

What if the biggest opportunities in your career are already around you, hidden in conversations you haven’t h…

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AI & Technology

(2 articles)
TechCrunch
TechCrunch Today

OpenAI releases new voice models for more natural live conversations

OpenAI says its new voice mode can speak and listen at the same time, a key ability for live translation.

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The Guardian
The Guardian 4d ago

How AI is changing language

<p>As allegations of LLM use rock the literary and media worlds, linguists explain what really distingui…

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Tools & Platforms

(39 articles)
Welocalize
Welocalize Yesterday

Podcast: Securing the Human Data Layer in AI

MAY 18, 2026 Read more The post Podcast: Securing the Human Data Layer in AI appeared first on Welocalize.

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POEditor
POEditor 2d ago

About the language quality manager role

A language quality manager is one of the many localization professionals that make sure only the highest quali…

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POEditor
POEditor 6d ago

Localization governance models explained

Who gets to make decisions in a localization project? Who decides which languages to support? Who owns transla…

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Welocalize
Welocalize Jul 1

Three Assumptions About AI in Localization That Production Experience Challenges

Assumptions harden fast in a fast-moving market. The post Three Assumptions About AI in Localization That Prod…

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POEditor
POEditor Jun 29

Brand localization software vs manual approach

When you re doing brand localization, you have to pay attention to your messaging, tone, visuals, and all othe…

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POEditor
POEditor Jun 25

What is multilingual asset management?

Content management gets a lot more complicated when you re going beyond your boarders. You’re managing words, …

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POEditor
POEditor Jun 22

Understanding machine translation pre-editing

Everyone s talking about machine translation post-editing, but just as important is machine translation pre-ed…

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Welocalize
Welocalize Jun 18

What a Year of Agentic AI for Multilingual Content Taught Us

The operational lessons shaping Opal’s continuous evolution and the next phase of enterprise AI localization  …

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POEditor
POEditor Jun 18

How to reduce bias in AI localization

We know that localization comes with its fair share of problems, which we can luckily avoid or fix easily. How…

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POEditor
POEditor Jun 15

POEditor Updates: MCP Server, Dark Mode More [2026]

At POEditor, we ship improvements continuously to help localization teams work faster and with fewer errors. H…

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POEditor
POEditor Jun 11

Inclusive localization for modern digital products

To be inclusive means avoiding assumptions about what’s “normal” and making space for a wider range of identit…

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POEditor
POEditor Jun 8

Don t make these common translation mistakes

You work in localization so you probably already know this (but allow us to highlight it either way): translat…

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Global & Policy

(12 articles)
Translation Commons
Translation Commons 5d ago

Many Languages, One Mission: Bringing More Communities Online in 2025

The Keyboard Group at Translation Commons is a group of volunteers that has as its goals to develop as many di…

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Translation Commons
Translation Commons 5d ago

Keyboard Group

Welcome to the blog of the keyboards group at Translation Commons. With this first entry, we want to introduce…

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TWB
TWB Feb 28

TWB welcomes the RWS Foundation as Sapphire sponsor for 2023

Garden City, ID, USA, – 20 February 2023 – Translators without Borders (TWB), part of CLEAR Global, is proud t…

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Translation Commons
Translation Commons Dec 20

Language Community Identity

Published on Multilingual April 2017, Community Lives How often these days are we asked for our ID? Doctors, h…

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TWB
TWB Aug 8

Celebrating 100,000 TWB community members

We ve recently hit a record milestone 100,000 community members! To acknowledge our key moments, and thank e…

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TWB
TWB Apr 5

TWB welcomes Semantix and TransPerfect in joint Sapphire sponsorship

Garden City, ID, USA, April 5, 2022 — Translators without Borders (TWB), part of CLEAR Global, is delighted to…

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TWB
TWB Feb 23

Lionbridge celebrates 25th anniversary with first Sapphire sponsorship for TWB

Garden City, ID, USA, February 23, 2022 — Translators without Borders (TWB), part of CLEAR Global, is delighte…

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TWB
TWB Nov 2

TWB welcomes TRSB as new Gold sponsor

Danbury, CT, USA, October 12, 2021 — Translators without Borders (TWB), part of CLEAR Global, is delighted to …

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TWB
TWB Aug 17

TIP SHEET Interpretation and Sensitive Topics – EN

Translators without Borders, in collaboration with Oxfam, has identified six key tips for humanitarians to add…

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TWB
TWB May 20

Investing in Translators: TWB using a new translation tool Memsource to better serve its community

The new technology integration represents TWB’s ongoing commitment to evolving its language technology and sup…

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Translation Commons
Translation Commons Aug 7

How two young boys preserved an entire language community (Part 3)

This is the third and concluding part of this blog series based on an interview I held with Abdoulaye and Ibra…

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Translation Commons
Translation Commons Jun 29

The ever-changing world of terms

Word shift. Loanwords. Portmanteau words. What sort of terms are these? Well, these are the terms we use to de…

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