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2 months ago | 
slator.com | Alex Edwards |swimmer. Based
The UK Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has awarded a GBP 8.45m (USD 10.5m) grant to three universities to build a foundational large language model (LLM) for sign language. The three universities — the University of Surrey, the University of Oxford, and University College London — will embark on a five-year project to create “SignGPT” to allow spoken languages to be automatically translated into photo-realistic sign language, and vice-versa.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
slator.com | Alex Edwards |swimmer. Based
AI multilingual video generation platform Synthesia has announced that it has raised USD 180m in a Series D funding round. Led by NEA, the round included participation from new investors WiL, Atlassian Ventures, PSP Growth, and existing investors GV, MMC Ventures, and FirstMark. The latest funding comes 18 months after its Series C, bringing the total capital raised to over USD 330m. The London-based company is now valued at USD 2.1bn, and is reportedly the UK’s most valuable GenAI media company.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
slator.com | Alex Edwards
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
slator.com | Maria Stasimioti |Alex Edwards |Seyma Albarino |Rocío Txabarriaga
Skip to content Researchers unveil EmoDubber, an AI dubbing system offering precision in lip-sync, and dynamic control over emotion type and density. The company releases the much anticipated AI dubbing feature in eight languages, as it sets expectations for quality output. YouTube hints at future updates to improve output. As SAG-AFTRA continues to strike, affecting more than 130 gaming companies, the updated agreement would apply to individual projects produced in a non-English language.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
slator.com | Alex Edwards |swimmer. Based
YouTube has announced that it has officially rolled out automated multilingual dubbing for “hundreds of thousands of channels” in a highly anticipated update that was first released under early access in 2022, and flagged for general release in September this year. The auto dubbing feature, formally known as Aloud, enables creators to automatically dub English audio to French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
slator.com | Alex Edwards |swimmer. Based
The Language Shop’s Director, Sam Lingard, and Managing Director Jaimin Patel, have defended the lack of artificial intelligence (AI) being used to assess the quality of court interpreting services in the UK, as part of an ongoing public inquiry into the management and provision of court interpreting and translation services. The Language Shop is currently the quality assurance provider of court interpreting assignments fulfilled by thebigword.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
slator.com | Alex Edwards |swimmer. Based
AI dubbing start-up Panjaya has announced that it has raised USD 9.5m in seed round funding. The round closed in September and was led by Viola Ventures, R-Squared Ventures, and GroundUp Ventures. Multiple angel investors also participated in the round, including leaders from the software and film production industries. Founded by AI researchers in 2022, Panjaya translates, dubs, and lip-syncs videos into 29 languages.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
slator.com | Alex Edwards |swimmer. Based
Google has announced that it has extended AI voice capabilities to over a dozen new African languages across a range of Google services. Google — which already supports typing with a custom keyboard in Gboard for approximately 200 African languages, and machine translations for over 60 African languages in Google Translate — now supports voice search, talk-to-type on Gboard, and dictation on Google Translate for 15 regional languages.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
slator.com | Alex Edwards |swimmer. Based
Rome-based language AI and services provider, Translated, has announced that it has partnered with NVIDIA and Italy’s largest supercomputing center, CINECA, to power its next generation of machine translation technology powered by AI. CINECA — a not-for-profit consortium made up of 70 Italian universities and over 50 research and public institutions — has supported Translated with 10 million GPU hours of model training.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
slator.com | Alex Edwards |swimmer. Based
New research by Slator has revealed that a fast-growing number of specialist and generalist software-as-a-service providers are integrating translation as a feature (TaaF) into their platforms in a bid to offer more added value to their customers. The findings show a trend of how the integration of large language models (LLMs) in software solutions is enabling companies to translate content directly in their day-to-day business applications.
