🌏 The machine translation newsletter - June 2026
Hi folks!
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.
🚀 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.
📚 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.
🎙️ 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
Reliability signals in AI translation
Translating PDFs with no selectable text
Japanese MT beyond the “easiest” answer
AI tools for technical docs
📆 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 🇭🇺
💻 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 🇺🇸