THE ANNUAL REVIEW OF THE LATEST INDUSTRY NEWS AND TRENDS

Agenor Hofmann-Delbor, PhD. Eng.

Increasing demand for interpreting

CSA Study from 2015 (197 buyers from 25 countries) show an increasing demand for intepreting

„Demand for translation and interpreting services is expected to increase significantly in the next 10 years due to globalization, although translators may not necessarily see a corresponding increase in income.”, Smartling 2014

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IBM Watson – a breakthrough in undestanding human language?

IBM Watson – offline, advanced AI focused on understanding questions and finding aswers (probability-based decisions, yet – highly efficient)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFR3lOm_xhE

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Speech recognition – a mature technology?

Speech recognition coprocessors vs. more and more efficient speech recognition core in Android and iOS (analysing sound samples on a cloud-based server).

If last time you tried speech recognition was years ago you should definitely try the latest versions.

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Is Star Trek’s Universal Translator on the horizon?

- Skype Translator -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rek3jjbYRLo

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Machine Translation – no more controversy?

Almost all large LSPs are already offering MT or post-editing

Do we really have post-editors (who are NOT translators at the same time) on the market? Have you met one?

Technologically MT is starting to reach the maturity level, the discussion on measuring the human effort properly remains.

- osiągnięcie rynkowej akceptacji MT (wszystkie CAT-y mają obecnie podłączenie do silników MT jako coś zupełnie standardowego)

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Time changes perspective

2005 – who would ever want a smartphone? 2015 – smartwatch? Just a gadget!Who knows! By the way – TLC organisers are offering one for

the prize draw ceremony on Saturday 7

Yet, some problems still exist Battery efficiency in laptops, tablets and

smartphones. Devices use less and less power, but at the same time manufacturers are using more power up by adding more functionalities and increasing screen resolutions.

More and more solutions only work online, no signal = no fun (or work…)

Does AGILE kill software and hardware stability?8

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