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EPISODE · Jun 2, 2021 · 28 MIN

AI-assisted language translation: Context is king

from HBS Managing the Future of Work · host Harvard Business School

Translators aren’t headed for obsolescence just yet. Computer-assisted language translation has come a long way, but for many jobs, you’ll still need a human in the loop to avoid inaccuracies, tone-deafness, and cultural insensitivity. Computer scientist Spence Green is president of enterprise language translation company, Lilt. He unpacks state-of-the-art neural network machine translation and explains the critical function of localizing content for international markets.

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