Lionbridge CEO Rory Cowan opened today’s Q3 conference call by introducing the new CFO Don Muir and having him lead off the presentation.  This is both a polite way to welcome the newcomer and appropriate to today’s message, which is that the sprawling localization giant’s challenge is to get better real-time insight into its far-flung [...]

The convergence of speech recognition and machine translation is drawing closer. As new devices hit the market, we spoke with IBM speech technologist David Nahamoo about his work on “super-human speech recognition.”

The ultimate test of machine translation is in the translation. Can someone who can’t read the source language understand enough of the text to take an appropriate action? We’re not talking the BLEU test here or a NIST MT evaluation — just a simple test case with everyday language.

October has been a busy month for the machine translation crowd. Google dropped SYSTRAN in favor of its own statistical MT technology, Language Weaver expanded its European presence, and PROMT saw its online MT usage on the upswing. Sooner or later, whether you like/want/know it or not, MT will touch everyone.