All Episodes

#289 Day Translations CEO Sean Hopwood on Building a Language Solutions Integrator

#288 The Language AI Startups to Watch in 2026

#287 How the Market for AI Data Has Become a Major Growth Opportunity

#286 Inside the USD 30 Billion Language Solutions and AI Market

#285 Real-Time Speech AI and Accent Translation with Sanas CEO Sharath Narayana

#284 Market Reality Check, RWS-Cohere, Data-for-AI, GlobalComix

#283 Launching Welo Global with CEO Paul Carr

#282 RWS CEO Ben Faes on Why They Partnered with Cohere

#281 What Is AI Audio Separation with AudioShake CEO Jessica Powell

#280 Walmart Cuts Translation Costs, 10 LTP Growth Hacks

#279 Why Phrase Doubles Down on a Platform Strategy with CEO Georg Ell

#278 Bluente CEO on Solving Tough Last-Mile Problems in AI Document Translation

#277 LTP Growth, Voice AI Valuations, RWS, Appen, Lionbridge

#276 ChatGPT Translate and Weird Prompts

#275 The Future of Language and Translation Education with JC Penet and Joss Moorkens

2025 Recap and 2026 Predictions!

#273 A Big New Market for Dubbing and Accessibility Solutions with 3Play Media co-CEOs

#272 Spatial Audio, IMDb Honors Dubs, Kindle AI Translations, Startup Rounds

#271 How aiOla Turns Natural, Multilingual Speech into Workflow-Ready Data

#270 AI Translation State of the Art with Tom Kocmi and Alon Lavie

#269 Milestone Localization Founder on Automated Glossaries, LSI Leadership, AI Fatigue

#268 Thordur Arnason on Why Capgemini Is Building an AI Speech Translator

Bizarre AI Research, Perplexity Ad Blunder, New RWS Hires

#266 CaptionHub CEO Tom Bridges on AI-Powered Real-Time Media Accessibility

#265 Slator Award, DeepL’s $5 Billion Plan, Merz Stirs EU Interpreter Debate

#264 ElevenLabs Surprise, ChatGPT Stunner, YouTube Dubs, Microsoft Interpreting API

#263 SlatorCon Recap, Cohere’s Big AI Translation Launch, TransPerfect Buys Unbabel

#262 The Hard Facts About AI in Healthcare Interpreting with GLOBO CEO Dipak Patel

#261 Finding Product-Market Fit in Language AI with Naitiv Founder Gayatri Shahane

#260 Pairaphrase Co-Founder Rick Woyde on Building a Language Technology Platform

#259 What Microsoft’s Misunderstood Copilot Study Actually Means for the Language Industry

#258 Outdoor and Action Sports as a Growth Market for Localization with Martina Russo

#257 The 50 Top Language AI Startups of 2025

#256 YouTube Dub Fail, Propio Buys CyraCom, LSIs Cheer Scale AI Deal

#255 The Rise of Voice Productivity with Krisp CEO Davit Baghdasaryan

#254 EU Language Law with Professor Stefaan van der Jeught

#253 SlatorPod Tom Elias Hanna on Why On-Site Interpreting Is Here to Stay and the Trump EO Impact

#252 What Are Language Solutions Integrators and Language Technology Platforms?

#251 Inside the LSA–Lingolet Strategic AI Partnership

#250 HeyGen CTO Rong Yan on AI Video Generation and the Language Challenge

#249 How to Expand in AI Data Services with DATAmundi CEO Véronique Özkaya

#248 DeepL Plants Flag on iPhone, RWS Stock Puzzle

#247 CIOL CEO John Worne on How AI Is Impacting the Language Profession

#246 AI and the Future of Transcreation with Creative Translation CEO Luke Innes

#245 Dealmaker Wows with 10M Translation Education Gift

#244 AI in Multilingual Patient Care with Jaide Health CEO Joe Corkery, MD

#243 Gridly CEO Anna Albinsson on Efficient Localization

#242 CEOs React as Trump Declares English the Sole Official Language of the US

#241 memoQ CEO Peter Reynolds on Adaptive Generative Translation and AI

#240 Anthropic Stuns with Fact About Claude Use for AI Translation

#239 DeepSeek Translation, ElevenLabs AI Dubbing, Sorensen M&A

#238 Why Interpreting Remains a Growth Market with Boostlingo CEO Bryan Forrester

#237 DeepL Voice Launch and Interpreter Job Surprise

#236 The Year in Review and 2025 Predictions!

#235 The Interpreting SAFE AI Task Force with Katharine Allen and Dr. Bill Rivers

#234 RWS and BLEND Appoint New CEOs, Microsoft and Amazon Speech AI

#233 Charles Campbell on Juntos and the Future of Localization in Latin America

#232 Reddit Rises on AI Translation, TransPerfect Buys Studio

#231 AI Impact on Media Localization with ZOO Digital CEO Stuart Green

#230 Christian Elongue on Advancing the Language Industry in Africa

#229 Leading Localization from Asia with EC Innovations’ Sijie Wei

#228 OpenAI’s Advanced Voice Mode and Interpreting, AI Dubs for Instagram

#227 Leading a Boutique LSP with GORR Co-founders Gregor and Olivera Rosulnik

#226 MTPE Use, Pricing, AI Adoption, and Other Findings from the 2024 ALC Survey

#225 Smartcat's Series C, YouTube Dubs, Viva Translate Shuts Down

#224 On AI for Deep Content Understanding with Zetta Cloud Chief Strategist George Bara

#223 Evaluating Translations Objectively with ISO 5060 Lead Christopher Kurz

#222 Hacks, Strikes, Layoffs, Rankings, and Localization Jobs

#221 Localization Is a Top ROI Use Case for GenAI with Lilt CEO Spence Green

#220 Building an AI Video Localization Startup with Supernative Co-founder Paul Ghio

#219 PR Wars over LLM Translation Quality

#218 How Large Language Models Replace Neural Machine Translation with Unbabel’s João Graca

#217 Legal Battles, Bankruptcies, Acquisitions, and AI Interpreting Guidelines

#216 Josh Goldsmith on How Language Experts Become Successful

#215 Humanless LSP as a Fun Weekend Project

#214 Terra Translations CEO Marina Ilari on Why Game Localization Is Her Passion

#213 Phrase CEO Georg Ell on the Arms Race in Language Technology

#212 TRSB CEO Mary Kazamias on Leading Canada’s Largest Language Service Provider

#211 How Many Translation and Interpreting Jobs Will There Be in the Future?

#210 The Future of Language Jobs with tbo.'s Charles Campbell

#209 Sourcing Language Data from the Four Corners of the Earth with XRI Global’s Daniel Wilson

#208 The Normalization of Language AI

#207 The Art and Business of Literary Translation with Dr. B.J. Woodstein

#206 Video Highlight’s Founder on How LLMs Enable New Ways to Engage with Video Content

#205 Deluxe’s Chris Reynolds on Dubbing, Subtitling, and Localization for Hollywood

#204 Language Network CEO Jordan Evans on Sales Tactics and Growth Through M&A

#203 The Top 50 Language AI Companies to Watch in 2024

#202 Insider Reveals Super Agency May Plan Multi-Billion Dollar IPO

#201 Ranking the World’s Largest Translation and Localization Companies

#200 Why Anja Jones Put Social Responsibility at the Core of Her Language Service Provider

#199 The State-of-the-Art in Machine Translation with Language Weaver’s Bart Maczynski

#198 Implementing Language AI in the Enterprise with Translated’s John Tinsley

#197 Machine Translating a President

#196 Translation and Localization in the New OpenAI GPT Store

#195 Unbabel CEO Vasco Pedro on AI Impact and Scaling LangOps

#194 Epic Battle in Automatic Speech Translation

#193 Enterprise Localization in Times of Large Language Models with Centific’s Jonas Ryberg

#192 Why Cost Per Word in Translation is Outdated With GetGloby CEO Diego Antista

#191 Translation AI Watershed Moment in German Parliament

#190 Where the ‘Translator Still Feels Like a Translator’ with Bureau Works’ Gabriel Fairman

#189 How Generative AI is Changing Multilingual SEO with Pablo Navascués

#188 Smartling CEO Bryan Murphy on Seizing the Language AI Moment

#187 Stop Using the Term Full Post-Editing with Jakub Absolon

#186 Adobe Sneaks into Language AI with Dub Dub Dub

#185 Processing 20 Million Minutes of Audio and Video Speech-to-Text With Sebastien Pare

#184 Spotify Adds Voice Translation, ALC Recap, Straker Buyback

#183 Winning Translation and Localization RFPs with memoQ RFP’s Mark Shriner

#182 Monsters, Aliens, and Lip-Synced Dubbing with MARZ CEO Jonathan Bronfman

#181 ChatGPT Translation Quality Reality Check

#180 Next Generation Localization Software with Phrase CEO Georg Ell

#179 New Trends in Machine Translation with Large Language Models by Longyue Wang

#178 LSP Performance Check, Llama 2, Phrase, Language I/O, LanguageWire

#177 Building a SaaS Product for Subtitling, Dubbing with Checksub Founder Florian Stègre

#176 Transcreation and Generative AI with Jellyfish’s Rocio Martinez

#175 Where DeepL Beats ChatGPT with Graham Neubig

#174 Dotsub Collapses, Microsoft Delights, ChatGPT Traffic Peaks, EU Chooses MT

#173 Hollywood-Grade AI Dubbing with Deepdub CEO Ofir Krakowski

#172 Clinical Translation and Linguistic Validation at Scale with ICON’s Brian Mallon

#171 Our GPT SWOT Analysis for the Language Industry

#170 Dubbing for Top Youtube Creators with Unilingo CEO Farbod Mansorian

#169 United Language Group CEO Nic McMahon on Language Access and Outcomes

#168 Google Bard Refuses to Translate, Launching Slator Answers

#167 How Large Language Models Prove Chomsky Wrong with Steven Piantadosi

#166 Translation and Localization Industry Maintains Growth in 2022 to USD 27.9bn

#165 Super Agency New Hires, RWS Results, ZOO Capital Raise

#164 How Fireflies.ai is Tripling Down on Becoming a Large Language Model-based Firm

#163 The Future of Live Multilingual Captioning Ai-Media CEO Tony Abrahams

#162 The Great ChatGPT and Translation Debate

#161 Microsoft’s Christian Federmann on the Translation Quality of Large Language Models

#160 Inside the Large Language Model Revolution with Nikola Nikolov

#159 The GPT-4 Exposure of Translators and Interpreters

#158 How Game Localization is Trailblazing Speech Synthesis with Voiseed CEO

#157 Behind the Scenes of Netflix’ 1899 with Cinescript’s Liane Kirsch

#156 VSI CEO Mark Howorth on AI in Media Localization, Adding More Dubbing Capacity

#155 Why Everyone Is Using Subtitles Now with David Orrego-Carmona

#154 Fastest Growing LSPs, MrBeast’s New Dubbing Company

#153 How Acolad Is Building Its Growth Team with Chief Revenue Officer Gráinne Maycock

#152 Language Technology Dominates in Research, RFPs, and Funding

#151 How Supertranslate is Profitable at $100 Monthly Recurring Revenue

#150 TransPerfect Reports Results, Big Tech in NLP Race

#149 How Good Is ChatGPT at Translation, Olympic-sized RSI Contract

#148 Mastering the Art of Transcreation With Craft’s Tanya Bogin

#147 LXT’s Phil Hall on the 2023 AI Boom, Covering 750 Languages, and ChatGPT

#146 Google Translation Hub — Mallika Iyer on Launch, Features, and Roadmap

#145 Everyone’s Talking About ChatGPT, DeepL Crowned Unicorn

#144 How André Bastié Is Scaling Happy Scribe After Finding Instant Product-Market Fit

#143 Translated CEO Marco Trombetti on Time-to-Edit as Proxy for AI Singularity

#142 The Future of Trados With Mark Lawyer

#141 DeepL Aborts Write Launch, German Translation Employment Dips, Media Loc M&A

#140 How the Brain Processes Language, With MIT Neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko

#139 AI Dubbing Finds Traction, Translation Buyer’s Guide Published

#138 DeepL’s Unicorn Round, $15 Million Translation Client, Bank Builds MT In-House

#137 Intento CEO Konstantin Savenkov on Best-Fit MT, Google Translation Hub, Generative AI

#136 Deepgram: From Dark Matter to Deep Learning Speech API With Scott Stephenson

#135 DigitalTolk CEO Virpal Singh on Booking an Interpreter in Seconds

#134 Cohere Co-founder Nick Frosst on Building the NLP Platform of the Future

#133 Sizing the Global Interpreting Market, DeepL Hiring, Europe’s Audiovisual Hub

#132 Rise of AI Writers, EU Interpreter Strike, Airbnb Expands MT, Lionbridge M&A

#131 Automating Subtitling, Dubbing, Live Captioning With XL8 CEO Tim Jung

#130 Yasmin Moslem on Using Large Language Models to Custom Train Machine Translation

#129 Translation’s Top YouTuber Adrian Probst on Building a Brand as a Freelancer

#128 Translation Pricing With Joseph Lambert and Callum Walker

#127 LSP Leadership Changes and Interpreting Shake-Up Across the Globe

#126 Dubverse’s Anuja Dhawan on AI Dubbing for YouTubers, TikTokers and Content Creators

#125 RSI Pushback, Subtitling and Dubbing Land Grab, Meta MT ‘Breakthrough’

#124 How to Become a Successful Freelance Interpreter With Jan Rausch

#123 Reverso CEO Theo Hoffenberg on Building Language Technology Used by Millions

#122 Addressing Vicarious Trauma Among Linguists With MasterWord CEO Mila Golovine

#121 Leading TransPerfect’s Technology Division with Matt Hauser

#120 Academic Translation and Author Services as Growth Markets With ALE CEO, Avi Staiman

#119 RWS Chief Language Officer Maria Schnell on the Value of Linguistic Expertise

#118 Welocalize CEO Smith Yewell on Scaling a Language Industry Super Agency

#117 Jeenie CEO Kirsten Brecht Baker on Raising a Series A for Healthcare Interpreting

#116 Leading the World’s Largest Interpreting Service With Genoveva Ruiz Calavera

#115 Dispatch From GALA San Diego 2022

#114 Amazon’s Professional Translators, Transifex, Seprotec, BIG

#113 Translation and Localization Industry Grows 11.8% in 2021 to USD 26.6bn

#112 Scaling Website Localization with Weglot CEO Augustin Prot

#111 Boostlingo CEO Bryan Forrester on Fundraising, M&A, Scaling Interpreting Technology

#110 A New Way to Post-Edit MT and News on RWS, Weglot, DeepL, Boostlingo, Acolad

#109 Meta VP Iris Orriss Announces Shift from Community Translation to Single-Language Vendors

#108 Low Resource, High Potential — NeuralSpace CEO Felix Laumann on Democratizing NLP

#107 Automating Language Evaluation With Emmersion CEO Brigham Tomco

#106 Ranking the World’s Largest Language Service Providers

#105 Healthcare Interpreting in the US and Beyond With Marco Assis

#104 Audio Localization in Video Games With Alessandra Vincenzi

#103 The Machine Translation Literacy Project with Lynne Bowker

#102 Björn Lifvergren on Subtitling, Dubbing, and Launching LinQ Media

#101 The World of Japanese Game and Media Localization With Katrina Leonoudakis

#100 The Social Impact of Language Technology With Andrew Bredenkamp

#99 Lokalise’s USD 50m Series B; 2021 Industry Highlights and 2022 Outlook

#98 Lionbridge CEO John Fennelly on the Language Industry’s Growth Trajectory

#97 Smartling Mega-Round, Avantpage CEO on Serving LEP Populations

#96 The Creativity of Transcreation with Tag Collective Arts’ Rik Grant

#95 Launching the Most Comprehensive Open-Source Globalization Strategy Playbook

#94 Diego Cresceri on Pricing MT Post-Editing and Becoming President of Elia

#93 Véronique Özkaya on Why Argos Multilingual Acquired Venga Global

#92 Blazing-Fast Machine Translation With Kenneth Heafield

#91 Judging Google Translate, TransPerfect’s Road to the Billion, Media Loc Hub Spain

#90 On XTRF and Scaling a Translation Management System with Andrzej Nedoma

#89 How the Pandemic Changed Interpreting Forever With Anja Peschel

#88 Dubbing, Subtitling, and the Future of Media Localization with VDMS’ Simon Constable

#87 Inside DeepL and Welocalize VP Olga Beregovaya on Language Tech Evolution

#86 Fake Interpreters, Fake LinkedIn Profiles, SlatorCon Highlights

#85 Advocating for Interpreters in Afghanistan with Red T Spokesperson Rebecca Petras

#84 M&A Shakes Up Nordic Language Industry, New Language Operations Pro Guide

#83 Smartcat CEO Ivan Smolnikov on Translation SaaS and Marketplaces

#82 LanguageLoop CEO, TikTok’s Dutch Translation Penalty, SME Website Localization

#81 TransPerfect Blowout Q2, Welocalize Buyer NLG, Reframing Video Localization

#80 TAIA CEO Marko Hozjan on Scaling a Translation Startup

#79 Women in Localization President Cecilia Maldonado on Translation in Latin America

#78 Zoom Adds Live Translation, Netflix Dubbing News, Toppan’s Christophe Djaouani

#77 Synthesia CEO Victor Riparbelli on Personalized Video in 40+ Languages

#76 BLEND Enters Voice Services, Keywords CEO Retires, Propio Gets Growth Equity

#75 How Large Companies Buy Translation Services — With Procurement Cube’s Armand Brevig

#74 Remote Simultaneous Interpreting With Interactio Co-founder Simona Andrijauskaitė

#73 What’s New in Machine Translation with TextShuttle CTO Samuel Läubli

#72 Vistatec CEO Thomas Murray on Agile Localization and Organic Over Acquisitive Growth

#71 Unbabel CEO Vasco Pedro on Translation Productivity, Lisbon’s Startup Scene, Growth Plans

#70 Appen Shares Plunge, TRSB Buys Anglocom, Evaluating MT, Huge RFP in Sweden

#69 Massive Localization at Canva, RSI Learning Curve, and Regulating AI

#68 Lilt CEO Spence Green on Predictive Translation and the AI Agency’s Roadmap

#67 Papercup CEO and Science Advisor on Speech Translation and Synthetic Voices

#66 Top Performing LSPs in Q1, MotionPoint Investment, Media Loc M&A, US Dubbing

#65 Media Loc’s Most Powerful CEO, KUDO Series A, Babylon Health’s Michela Simonelli

#64 Language I/O Founders on USD 5m Series A, AI Writer, Translation Pricing Report

#63 Alex Katsambas on Localizing Billions of Words in Luxury Fashion

#62 Netflix A/B Testing, Travod CEO Elena Grigoras, Ban in Japan

#61 XTM CEO Bob Willans on Raising Capital and the Future of Translation Pricing

#60 Semantix Exec Britta Aagaard on EUR 34m EU GROW Translation Contract

#59 Limecraft CEO and Founder Maarten Verwaest on AI-enabled subtitling

#58 Smartling CEO Jack Welde, Lengoo and XTM Funding, Systran and TAUS

#57 Kudo CEO Fardad Zabetian on Multilingual Meetings, Job Index Jumps

#56 Media Loc Mega-Deal, Mark Shriner on Sales and Asia, Call of Duty Loc Stats

#55 Memsource CEO on Buying Phrase, Straker’s Lingotek Deal, TransPerfect FY 2020

#54 Oxford Languages President Casper Grathwohl, M&A Report, LSP Growth Opportunities

#53 Supertext Co-founder Fabian Dieziger, Brexit & Translators, SBA regulations for US LSPs

#52 Top 10 Stories of 2020, Isabelle Andrieu, co-Founder and Chairman of Translated

#51 RWS’ Plans for SDL, Top 10 NMT Papers, Graduating Translation in 2020

#50 New Rates in Germany, Financial Translation, LSP Channel Partners

#49 Ex Netflix Exec Chris Fetner on EGA Launch, LSP Dying Zone, the First SPAC

#48 GPT-3 for Translators, SLT CEO Kris Zdanowski, Translation Tests, Media Loc Unites

#47 Lionbridge Mega Deal, Altagram CEO Marie Amigues talks Game Localization

#46 Smartcat Funding, 2M CEO Tea Dietterich, Loc Jobs Climb, Earnings Wrap

#45 Medtech Loc, Venga Global CEO Kåre Lindahl, Language AI in Video, Amazon MT Fail

#44 Facebook MT, Interprefy’s Kim Ludvigsen on RSI, Zoom Zapps, LSP Earnings

#43 RWS-SDL Greenlight, Pangeanic CEO Manuel Herranz Joins, thebigword's Big Promise

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

#41 Tarjama CEO Nour Al Hassan; Translator Marketplaces, INC 5000 LSPs

#40 Acolad Buys AMPLEXOR; GLOBO's Gene Schriver talks On-Demand Interpreting

#39 Petr Antropov on Lokalise Series A, BIG M&A, Why THG Insourced Translation

#38 MT with Adam Bittlingmayer, Lokalise Series A, the “Outperforming Humans” Claim

#37 First guest episode with Kimon Fountoukidis! Plus RWS-SDL, China NLP Ban, AB5, Translation at WTO

#36 RWS to Buy SDL: Unpacking the Language Industry’s Deal of the Decade

#35 Good Times Bad Times for LSPs, Are Translation Equivalents Real? VRI Boom

#34 SDL Soars, What’s Sockeye, Who Owns Systran, Loc at Infobip, Aussie Troubles

#33 How LSPs Sell, RWS Pays Back, Machine Mistranslations, Signs of Life for Loc Jobs

#32 Crypto Linguists, TransPerfect Q2, LanguageLine, Salesforce MT Dataset, UK Contract

#31 The World's Biggest Language Model, Kudo Raises 6M for Remote SI, Open Source Machine Interpreting

#30 The Most Interesting Loc Deal of 2020, India’s New LSP Org, Media Loc’s Solid Summer

#29 Stripe on Lack of Translation, More Memsource, SlatorCon, Best MT Paper

#28 Memsource Goes Big, UK Mega Tender, Intento Seed Round, Jobs Decline Slows

#27 Apple Translate, Localised Series A, SOSi Invests in Apptek, L10N at Deliveroo, Japan M&A

#26 Biggest MT Survey, Interpreter Protest, Google Translate, M&A is Back

#25 Google TM Snafu, Translator Salaries, RWS Iconic M&A, AB5 in California

#24 Puzzled Interpreters, Loc at Verizon, Surprising MT, Jobs Vanish

#23 Netflix MTs Subs, RSI on Zoom, 9 Translation Markets, Defenders of French

#22 Japan’s Undervalued LSP, Australia and VRI, Translator Strike Contd.

#21 Cash for Lilt and Plint, Presbyterian Loc, Game M&A, SlatorCon Goes Remote

#20 thebigword’s email, Amazon Subs, Germany Says No, LSP Sales Tool

#19 Facebook Terminology, 2020 Report Launch, EU LSPs Struggle, AB5 Hope

#18 DeepL Custom Hints, EU MDR Delay, Dub Studios Reopen, Google Live Translation

#17 Startup Cuts, Super Agency Headwinds, Fixing Gender in NMT

#16 Polluted TMs, LSP Sells Masks, RWS as Proxy, Loc at Corona Test Manufacturer

#15 Loc Jobs Dry Up, Furloughs, LSP Crisis Management, Clinical Trial Translations

#14 Flawed MT Review, TransPerfect v. Lionbridge, LSPs, Freelancers & Corona

#13 Airbnb Loc, Continuity Despite COVID-19, CIOL Survey, Multilingual Podcasts

#12 Corona Affecting Language Industry, Loc at Fisher Investments

#11 Corona Impact, Magic Translator, LSP Growth Ranking, AILIA

#10 *Special Edition* Slator 2020 Language Service Provider Index

#9 Top 10 LSPs of 2019, Testing Google’s Interpreter Mode, Capita TI for Sale, Norway Terp RFP

#8 What's Trans-Adaptation? Kiwi M&A, Honyaku's Miss, India Data, Loc Meetup

#7 DeepL Breakthrough? UK Game Localizers Are Special, Mexican Dubbing, Straker Financials

#6 The TMS Question, 475M Stratus Deal, UK Manifesto, Slator LSP Index Heads-up

#5 Interpreter Strike, Amazon Machine Dubbing, Super Agencies 2019 Financials

#4 Lionbridge Lawsuit, HOOQ Media Localization, Translator Scams, CES and Translation Gadget

#3 Loc Meetup, EU 60M Awards, LSP Scorecard, 2020 Predictions, Q1 Speaking

#2 Top 2019 Quotes, Kantan MT Acquisition, AB5 Law

#1 Denmark, EU, RWS, Buyer Panel