3+ hour, 54+ min ago   (29+ words) What Text-to-Speech Evaluation Misses in Real-World Deployment'Slator Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings....

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (533+ words) A GBP 3.5m (USD 4.7m) initiative will combine leading linguistics and language technology experts from the UK and Japan on a research project aiming to steer AI sign language training toward the fluid, natural conversations occurring within the deaf community, according to…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (24+ words) Language AI Briefing January 2026Slator Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings....

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1407+ words) The year 2025 was thrilling for the language services industry " four seemingly time-warped quarters where AI was either the main character or the supporting actor in many a story. In this article, we look at the most-read Slator stories of the…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (231+ words) On December 16, 2025, Cohere Labs announced the release of AfriAya, a new vision-language dataset aimed at improving how AI models understand African languages and cultural contexts. At launch, AfriAya covers 13 African languages. Cohere said the project is moving toward version 2, which…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (145+ words) Administrative authorities must process large volumes of documentation, respond to citizen requests and maintain'everyday procedures with limited human resources. In this context, purely manual processes increasingly struggle to keep pace, creating risks to service availability and response times.' Why language…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1126+ words) At SlatorCon Silicon Valley 2025, Cohere's Multilingual Team Lead Kelly Marchisio delivered one of the most well-received presentations of the day: an accessible, behind-the-scenes look at how to build a multilingual large language model (LLM). Marchisio put delegates in the shoes of…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago   (378+ words) Switzerland is preparing to release its first fully open, multilingual large language model (LLM), developed by ETH Zurich, EPFL, and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS)." The model " currently in final testing " was trained on Alps, Switzerland's national supercomputer in Lugano,…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago   (358+ words) A new multilingual AI benchmarking initiative backed by the German Government aims to advance equitable access to language technologies by highlighting where today's large language models (LLMs) succeed " and where they fall short. Jointly developed by the German Federal Ministry…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago   (478+ words) On June 20, 2025, Unbabel unveiled TOWER+, a new family of open-weight multilingual large language models (LLMs) designed to deliver high-quality AI translation while maintaining strong general-purpose capabilities. The models are available in sizes of 2B, 9B, and 72B parameters. TOWER+ addresses a longstanding challenge…...