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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.

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.

Jan 16, 2025 | slator.com | Alex Edwards |swimmer. Based

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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.

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.