The Commission's Directorate-General for Translation opened a public platform to collect hard data on an industry that had never properly counted itself.
The Commission's Directorate-General for Translation opened a public platform to collect hard data on an industry that had never properly counted itself.
Google's Mustafa Icil described two systems, speech-to-text and text translation, and the plan to bolt them together into live spoken translation.
The research firm predicts language moves from back-office cost to revenue lever in 2011, with machine translation, crowdsourcing and video localization leading the shift.