Episode Details

In this episode Robin and Adam cover:

• Adam's six years at Google Translate and what he actually built there
• Why 7 billion people still can't reliably access high-value content in their language
• The post-editing bottleneck that slows down every translation workflow
• How ModelFront predicts translation quality before human review
• Why the existential crisis facing LSPs has less to do with AI than most think
• The real reason change in the translation industry always comes from outside
• Adam's final advice: independence and control are everything

Resources mentioned:

• ModelFront: https://modelfront.com
• Machine Translate Foundation: https://machinetranslate.org
• Machine Translation Subreddit: https://reddit.com/r/machinetranslation
• Localization Fireside Chat: https://localization-fireside-chat.simplecast.com/

Credits
Host: Robin Ayoub, Founder, Localization Fireside Chat

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Website: www.L10NFiresideChat.com
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5OoURgc29R31XPGzOWL9iX
Be a guest: https://calendly.com/robin-ayoub/localization-fireside-chat-podcast-recording
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robinayoub/

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