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.
- RegTech: how regulations & compliance can be effectively processed using open-standards-based semantic technologies. Plus a conversational bot to enquire about GDPR conditions. And a Regtech accelerator programme here.
- Blockchain for the translation industry: automating smart contracts and data management.
- Microsoft goes “full duplex”: i.e. pause-free conversational parity, largely driven by predictive speech software.
- Interpretation now rhymes with Innovation – new tech alliance ITA aims to disrupt the private market.
- The race to “humanize” sentiment in AI voices.
- Military/defense, healthcare/life sciences, automotive, and travel/hospitality: nearly 40% of $195M MT market by 2023.
- Meetings Tech as a Service – an untapped smart content market for language tech?
- Numbers on text generation (NLG) usage in Retail and Financial Research.
- Listening hubs in restaurants to measure foodie sentiment.
- Semantic search advances derived from Ray Kurweil’s work at Google.
