Podcast · 39 episodes
SlatorPod, page 2
by Slator · English
SlatorPod is the weekly language industry podcast where we discuss the most important news and trends in translation, localization, interpreting, and language AI. Brought to you by Slator.com.
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#270 AI Translation State of the Art with Tom Kocmi and Alon LavieState of the art in AI translation and evaluation, centered on the latest WMT (Workshop on Machine Translation) results, especially the unified metrics/QE shared task using ESA-style human judgments…21 Nov 2025 · 54 min · 19 chapters
#269 Milestone Localization Founder on Automated Glossaries, LSI Leadership, AI FatigueMilestone Localization founder Nikita Agarwal discusses running a life-sciences-focused LSI in late 2025 amid AI hype, pricing pressure, and “AI fatigue,” plus launching Kavya AI for automated…10 Nov 2025 · 31 min · 15 chapters
#268 Thordur Arnason on Why Capgemini Is Building an AI Speech TranslatorCapgemini Invent’s shift from consulting time-selling to productizing AI, focused on BabelSpeak (BabbleSpeak) speech-to-speech translation, plus discussion of “agentic AI,” sovereign AI hosting, EU…5 Nov 2025 · 33 min · 13 chapters
Bizarre AI Research, Perplexity Ad Blunder, New RWS HiresSlaterPod quick news for localization/translation industry: (1) copy-pasting localization manager job ads, comparing OpenAI vs Perplexity; (2) RWS Q4 strategic leadership hires; (3) critique of a UK…24 Oct 2025 · 24 min · 7 chapters
#266 CaptionHub CEO Tom Bridges on AI-Powered Real-Time Media AccessibilityTom Bridges, CaptionHub CEO, explains AI-powered, real-time multimedia accessibility workflows—multilingual subtitling, voiceover, and on-screen text localization—especially for live broadcasting.10 Oct 2025 · 33 min · 18 chapters
#265 Slator Award, DeepL’s $5 Billion Plan, Merz Stirs EU Interpreter DebateSlaterPod #265 is a news roundup for the language industry. It opens with the first “Slater Award” at Zurich University of Applied Sciences (MA specialized translation): winner Guy Ravnitsky, for a…3 Oct 2025 · 34 min · 14 chapters
#264 ElevenLabs Surprise, ChatGPT Stunner, YouTube Dubs, Microsoft Interpreting APIElevenLabs’ pivot from language technology platform to managed language solutions; YouTube enabling multilingual audio tracks; OpenAI research showing ChatGPT translation is a major conversation…19 Sep 2025 · 35 min · 19 chapters
#263 SlatorCon Recap, Cohere’s Big AI Translation Launch, TransPerfect Buys UnbabelSlatorCon Silicon Valley recap plus major language-AI news: Cohere’s Command Translate launch, TransPerfect’s acquisition of Unbabel, AI dubbing, AI agents, lip-sync progress, and live translation in…12 Sep 2025 · 33 min · 19 chapters
#262 The Hard Facts About AI in Healthcare Interpreting with GLOBO CEO Dipak PatelAI and language interpreting in U.S. healthcare—what should be automated vs kept human, how Globo measures quality, and how its AI interpreter “Kai” is piloted and launched.26 Aug 2025 · 39 min · 19 chapters
#261 Finding Product-Market Fit in Language AI with Naitiv Founder Gayatri ShahaneSlaterPod #261 discusses how Native (founded by Gayatri Shahane) is pursuing product-market fit for “language AI” via a desktop conversational AI agent for live, speech-to-speech interpretation aimed…20 Aug 2025 · 26 min · 15 chapters
#260 Pairaphrase Co-Founder Rick Woyde on Building a Language Technology PlatformRick Woyde, co-founder of Pairaphrase (now positioning as a language technology platform), explains why he built a simpler translation management/LTP tool, how AI translation is changing the market,…14 Aug 2025 · 33 min · 13 chapters
#259 What Microsoft’s Misunderstood Copilot Study Actually Means for the Language IndustryThe episode dissects Microsoft’s paper “Working with AI, Measuring the Occupational Implications of Generative AI,” arguing it was widely misunderstood.7 Aug 2025 · 24 min · 12 chapters
#258 Outdoor and Action Sports as a Growth Market for Localization with Martina RussoHow outdoor and action sports localization differs from mainstream sports, and why authentic, discipline-specific translation is hard; Martina Russo explains building the Action Sports Translator and…18 Jul 2025 · 35 min · 18 chapters
#257 The 50 Top Language AI Startups of 2025Slator’s “Language AI 50 Under 50” (50 top language AI startups founded in the last ~50 months), plus public-sector language AI demand, a major interpreting-industry acquisition, IPO chatter, and…11 Jul 2025 · 29 min · 14 chapters
#256 YouTube Dub Fail, Propio Buys CyraCom, LSIs Cheer Scale AI DealYouTube’s AI dubbing rollout to ~80M creators (20 languages) is criticized as low quality and hard to control: robotic voices, no speaker turn-taking, no lip syncing, mistranslations (including a…4 Jul 2025 · 31 min · 15 chapters