Tons of jobs! 16 new open roles this month, from OpenAI to NVIDIA.

More live translation deployments this month in police departments, construction sites, and phone calls.

Meanwhile, DeepL’s transition to AWS introduces US data jurisdiction into the equation. With the sudden government restrictions on Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos models, companies are questioning supply chain risks.

Conference season is here. EAMT started this week in Tilburg, and the calendar is packed through November.

The man who led Google Translate’s transition to neural and Transformers, Macduff Hughes, shared his thoughts in a fireside chat.

Enjoy—and share!

🗞️ News

• Audible reports 50 million minutes of AI-narrated content played.

• Quebec language laws open the door to automated web translation.

💼 Business

• ModelFront announces outcome-based pricing.

• DeepL acquires Mixhalo for low-latency audio in live events.

• DeepL shifts data from EU to US jurisdiction via Amazon partnership.

• TransPerfect replaces Widn.AI with GlobalLinkNow.

• Youdao reports MT growth in Q1 earnings.

• Interpreters Unlimited adds AI interpretation to GSA contract.

More business →

🚀 Launches

• Google launches Gemini 3.5 Live Translate.

• Alibaba launches Qwen3.5-LiveTranslate-Flash, real-time speech translation with voice cloning.

• ElevenLabs releases Dubbing v2 with speaker emotion preservation.

• OneMeta launches real-time interpretation for emergency services in Mexico ahead of FIFA 2026.

• T-Mobile launches beta live translation.

• Daewoo E&C launches AI translator for foreign workers.

• A California police department adds live translation for officers.

• Xiaomi launches clip-on earbuds with AI translation.

More launches →

📚 Research

• WMT 2026 announces a shared task on translation quality evaluation.

• Linguists flag 71% of TranslateGemma-12b subtitle translations.

• Fine-tuning TranslateGemma-4B for English-Welsh translation.

More research →

🎙️ Interviews

• Macduff Hughes, former Google Translate Director of Engineering, on the 2016 neural MT transition and the LLM era.

❔ Questions

• MTQE as a workflow trigger in production

• AI tool for book translation

• Real-time translation on Quest AR

• Subtitle localization QC

• Multilingual WordPress plugins

• Translating a 70MB PDF

• Reliability signals in AI translation

• Omni and OpenNovel for translation

• Translating PDFs with no selectable text

• Japanese MT beyond the “easiest” answer

• AI voice-over for non-English

• Video transcription for non-European languages

• AI tools for technical docs

More questions →

📆 Events

• EAMT 2026 — 15 - 18 June — Tilburg 🇳🇱

• NeTTiT 2026 — 24 - 27 June — Dubrovnik 🇭🇷

• IWSLT 2026 — 3 - 4 July — San Diego 🇺🇸

• AMTA 2026 — 31 August - 2 September — Québec City 🇨🇦

• MT Marathon 2026 — 14 - 18 September — Karlsruhe 🇩🇪

• SF Tech Week Translation AI — 8 October — San Francisco 🇺🇸

• WMT 2026 — November — Budapest 🇭🇺

More events →

💻 Jobs

• Senior Software Engineer, Localization Engineering at Autodesk — Vancouver 🇨🇦

• Research Engineer, Machine Translation at Sanas — Palo Alto 🇺🇸

• Senior Applied Scientist, Translation Services at Amazon — Hyderabad 🇮🇳

• AI Researcher / ML Engineer, ASR and Speech at LILT — Boston 🇺🇸

• Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA — Hamburg 🇩🇪

• AI Technical Program Manager, Localization at Canva — London 🇬🇧

• Software Engineer, Machine Translation at Solerity — Fort Meade 🇺🇸

• Solution Architect, Language/Translation at DeepL — New York 🇺🇸

• AI Research Manager, Translation Quality at DeepL — London 🇬🇧

• Staff Research Scientist, Language AI at DeepL — Munich 🇩🇪

• Software Engineer, Localization at OpenAI — San Francisco 🇺🇸

• Localization Product Strategist at Google — Boulder 🇺🇸

• Senior AI/NLP/ML Expert at Stott and May — Brussels 🇧🇪

• Prompt Engineer, Translation Management at Schmieder Translations — Telangana 🇮🇳

• Member of Technical Staff, Multilingual at Cohere — New York 🇺🇸

• Machine Learning Engineer, Globalization at Netflix — United States 🇺🇸

More jobs →

Modern machine translation (learned from data, not based on hand-coded rules) started exactly 20 years ago, with the original launch of Google Translate.

Now trillions of words are translated every month. (Not hyperbole, that’s the actual number.)

The quality available has improved fantastically, by any measure. (Model evaluation is as unsolved as ever.) Even free, open-source models now translate at quality better than the best APIs a decade ago, between thousands of languages.

Convenient built-in translation features are now standard across top platforms like Reddit, X and Whatsapp. Book fans are hacking together their own tools, now that machine translation can do context across sentences and take prompts.

Progress is even coming to the high-value content, where manually checking the AI is the bottleneck. Enterprise localization teams are using AI to automagically confirm millions of segments, while keeping human quality.

To help us all keep track, we’ve launched new sections at machinetranslate.org, like models and automatic post-editing.

🚀 Launches

Language support

• Google Translate now supports more than 247 languages.

• DeepL now supports 109 languages, after adding more than 70 in November.

• Meta released Omnilingual MT for 1,600 languages in a free, open-source model.

• Machine Translate now lists 615 languages.

Voice and video

• Apple integrated system-wide Live Translation into FaceTime, phone calls and messages via Apple Intelligence.

• Apple launched real-time in-person translation directly through AirPods Pro.

• Google Translate launched real-time speech translation, then speech-to-speech with Gemini.

• DeepL launched voice translation in November 2024, then real-time voice at its Spring 2026 event.

• Microsoft launched a Live Interpreter API, and Microsoft Teams added turn-based translation for multilingual meetings.

• Translated launched Lara for iOS.

• Ray-Ban Meta and Huawei shipped translation in smart glasses and on-device.

• Zoom launched Voice Translator for real-time multilingual meetings.

• YouTube rolled out AI auto-dubbing with “Expressive Speech”.

• Instagram launched AI dubbing for Reels that clones voices and syncs lip movements.

Consumer apps

• WhatsApp added native, on-device message translation in 19+ languages.

• X / Grok now translates and recommends foreign-language posts.

• Amazon launched Kindle Translate, letting self-published authors AI-translate books into multiple languages.

• SafePal launched in-app machine translation.

MT ⇄ LLMs

• Google Translate integrated Gemini capabilities.

• Microsoft brought LLM-powered translation to Azure Translator with a September 2025 preview launch.

• Translated added reasoning model Lara Think and 200-language support to Lara.

• DeepL launched DeepL Agent and Clarify, and updated its API with a new language model and AI writing tools.

• OpenAI’s ChatGPT launched a translation app page.

• OpenAI launched GPT‑Realtime‑Translate, a live translation model that translates speech while keeping pace with the speaker.

Open models

• Google released TranslateGemma, an open suite of translation models.

• Alibaba released Qwen-MT, a dedicated machine translation model supporting 92 languages.

• Cohere released Command A Translate and the open-weight Tiny Aya for 70+ languages.

• Tencent open-sourced a 440MB translation model that runs fully offline on smartphones, supporting 33 languages.

• Machine Translate now covers models and lists 11 providers.

Quality estimation and automatic post-editing

• ModelFront announced general availability of automatic post-editing.

• Advanced localization teams, like Booking.com, have shifted to using AI to verify AI scaling translation while keeping human-level quality.

• Amazon’s LLM translation playground uses RAG to inject translation memory into prompts, improving BLEU scores without fine-tuning.

• Machine Translate now supports automatic post-editing providers and lists 9 QE integrations and 4 APE integrations across TMS platforms.

More product and feature launches →

📚 Research

• Google Translate released the WMT24++ and SMOL datasets for high- and low-resource languages.

• FUSE, a new MT evaluation metric for indigenous languages.

• Pearmut, a tool for human evaluation of translation.

• WMT 2025 results were released at EMNLP.

More research news →

📈 Business

• Reddit credited machine translation with driving record international user growth.

• DeepL cut 250 jobs amid AI-driven restructuring.

• ElevenLabs grew to $500M ARR and raised more investment.

• Unbabel exited to Transperfect.

• RWS outsourced AI to Cohere.

More business news →

⏰️ Deadlines

• AsLing call for papers and presentations — 30 June

• MT Marathon 2026 call for papers — 5 September

More deadlines →

📆 Events

• EAMT 2026 — 15–18 June — Tilburg 🇳🇱

• IWSLT 2026 — 3–4 July — San Diego 🇺🇸

• AMTA 2026 — 31 August - 2 September — Québec City 🇨🇦

• MT Marathon 2026 — 14-18 September — Karlsruhe 🇩🇪

• SF Tech Week Translation AI — 8 October — San Francisco 🇺🇸

• WMT 2026 — November — Budapest 🇭🇺

More events →

💻 Jobs

• Software Engineer, Machine Translation Automation at Apple — Seattle 🇺🇸

• Applied Research Engineer, Machine Translation at Apple — Munich and Aachen 🇩🇪

• Sr Manager, Translations at McDonald’s — Chicago 🇺🇸

• Senior Applied AI Researcher (Lara) at Translated — Rome 🇮🇹

• Senior Software Engineer at Autodesk — Vancouver 🇨🇦

• Staff Research Scientist, Language AI at DeepL — Munich 🇩🇪

• Senior AI Research Scientist at Transperfect — Lisbon 🇵🇹

• Senior Localization Program Manager, Multilingual AI at Uber — Sunnyvale 🇺🇸

• AI Research Manager, Translation Quality at DeepL — London 🇬🇧

More jobs →