Hi folks! On the production side, the lines are blurring. Itโs no longer only TMSes adding AI, now translation AI companies are launching their own TMS platforms too!
Meanwhile, thanks to Claude, the homemade translation tools shared in our community are starting to look more and more polished, but theyโre also becoming more similar. Commoditization is happening fast.
Event season is in full swing, and there are plenty of jobs!
Enjoy - and share!
๐๏ธ News
AMTA opens registration for its 2026 conference in Quรฉbec City.
TAUS opens registration for its conference in Vancouver.
LocWorld 56 opens registration for its conference in Vancouver.
Romhack.ing, a hub for fan-translated retro games, pulls machine-translated versions to protect human ones.
๐ Launches
DeepL launches Translation Flow, connecting enterprise apps like Google Drive and SharePoint to its MT, glossaries, style guides, and human review routing.
RWS launches Trados Studio 2026 with context-aware AI, native Language Weaver Pro, and LLM support.
Ray-Ban Meta glasses now support real-time Korean translation.
xAI launches 21 multilingual voices for Grokโs Voice Agent Builder, now supporting 25+ languages.
TAUS launches a Canadian French quality estimation model.
Lara Translate launches audio-to-audio translation, mobile image translation, and Microsoft Edge support.
Gradium launches stt-translate and s2s-translate speech models.
Gyeonggi Province launches a multilingual AI portal with integrated MT for foreign residents.
NagaTranslate adds a new domain and voice (TTS and speech recognition).
DeepManga is a new open-source manga translation tool built on PaddleOCR and Gemini.
๐ ๏ธ Community launches
An open-source machine translator for indigenous languages.
A Chrome extension for translating webpages, PDFs, and DOCX files using your own LLM API.
A Chrome extension that shows Google Translate output for any selected text.
An offline, lightweight version of the OPUS-MT/Marian translation engine.
A tool to mask sensitive data locally before sending it for AI translation.
Local, real-time subtitles and translation for streamers.
A translation quality-check tool with MQM-based error annotations, back-translation, and style guide support.
๐ Research
EAMT publishes its 2026 proceedings.
NeTTiT publishes the first version of its 2026 proceedings.
Can AI detectors flag AI translations?
ModelFront debunks myths about quality estimation and automatic post-editing.
๐๏ธ Podcasts and videos
SlatorPod covers language AI startups, voice AI, and Anthropic.
GenAI in Localizationโs recording is available on demand.
โ Questions
โAsymmetric AI Translatorโ โ why Apple and Timekettle get it wrong
Translating your own work from your native language into English
Best free AI PDF translator for text that isnโt editable
๐ Events
AMTA 2026 โ 31 August - 2 September โ Quรฉbec City ๐จ๐ฆ
AAMT 2026 โ 13 - 14 September โ Online / Nara ๐ฏ๐ต
MT Marathon 2026 โ 14 - 18 September โ Karlsruhe ๐ฉ๐ช
Translation AI at Tech Week โ 8 October โ San Francisco ๐บ๐ธ
WMT 2026 โ November โ Budapest ๐ญ๐บ
๐ป Jobs
Multilingual AI Quality Specialist at Spotify โ Stockholm ๐ธ๐ช or London ๐ฌ๐ง
Software Engineer, Localization at OpenAI โ San Francisco ๐บ๐ธ
Applied Scientist II, GenAI/LLM, Translation Services at Amazon Science โ Seattle ๐บ๐ธ
Applied Scientist II, Alexa International at Amazon โ Bellevue ๐บ๐ธ
Senior and Principal Applied Scientist, Speech and Translation at Microsoft โ Redmond ๐บ๐ธ
Solution Architect, Language/Translation at DeepL โ Texas, New York, San Francisco ๐บ๐ธ
Localization Technical Solution Architect at Blizzard Entertainment โ Irvine ๐บ๐ธ
Senior Software Engineer, Localization Engineering at Autodesk โ Vancouver ๐จ๐ฆ
Head of Localisation at Gallup โ London ๐ฌ๐ง
AI Enablement Localization Specialist at SAS โ Madrid ๐ช๐ธ
Senior Localization Engineer, Applied AI at Tenable โ Dublin ๐ฎ๐ช
Principal AI Researcher at Phrase โ Remote (EEA) ๐ช๐บ
Machine Learning Engineer, Speech and Translation at myLanguage โ Remote ๐บ๐ธ
Assistant Professor, Language Technologies and AI Governance at University of Warwick โ Coventry ๐ฌ๐ง
NLU and MT Intern at DB Cargo Hungรกria โ Frankfurt ๐ฉ๐ช