No time to read all tweets, scoops, blogs? Here is a summary of the Top Ten LT stories of the month, selected by our LangTechNews editor Andrew Joscelyne. Enjoy – and if you have a newsworthy story, contact us.

  1. Hit of the Month: We’re happy to see our overview of immediate challenges to the LT space as the most popular story
     
  2. Meanwhile, speech tech is on the brink of revolution according to Speechmatics
     
  3. In the current “fight against fake”, a semantics-driven “trustworthiness” evaluator can analyse your content
     
  4. Three startups are using Natural Language Generation to automate the best marketing messages
     
  5. Legal technology players are getting organized; they’re starting their own professional association.
     
  6. Babbel builds an official Online Language Test for English learners
     
  7. Japan’s Communication Ministry plans to develop a translation system that also recognizes emotions
     
  8. Microsoft successfully road-tests a Read & Answer Questions document analyser
     
  9. All that heavy AI processing is stimulating a boom in microchip-maker startups
     
  10. M&As: a cloud-operator buys Converse.AI to improve conversational workflows