#42 TransPerfect Settles Wordfast, Sandeep Nulkar on India Loc Industry, Mozilla Kills Elmo

Florian and Esther are joined by Sandeep Nulkar, CEO and Founder of BITS Private Limited and co-Founder of Vernac Language Technologies to discuss India's language industry.Before Sandeep joins us, your regular SlatorPod hosts talk about the week’s language industry stories...Florian shares news from Mozilla, which just took the decision to retire Elmo — the backbone of its localization infrastructure — and to axe hundreds of jobs. Esther talks about the recovery in the language industry job index (LIJI), which climbed above the baseline in October for the first time since March 2020. The two pick up on a few news items circulated in SlatorSweep: from TransPerfect’s out-of-court settlement with former co-owner Liz Elting over the ownership of Wordfast LLC, to interpreting platform KUDO announcing an integration with Microsoft Teams. Don’t miss our in-depth discussion with Sandeep; we delve into India’s language industry, Sandeep’s take-aways from the Slator’s recent Indian LSP survey results, and his vision for the newly created Indian language industry association, CITLoB.