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#256 YouTube Dub Fail, Propio Buys CyraCom, LSIs Cheer Scale AI Deal
31 minutes Posted Jul 4, 2025 at 9:00 am.
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Reception of Terms LSI and LTP
Apple and OpenAI's AI Translation Developments
YouTube’s Rocky AI Dubbing Rollout
RWS's Integration of Papercup IP to Trados
RWS's Half-Year Financial Results
Meta’s Controversial Stake in Scale AI
X Now Uses Grok for AI Translation
Propio Acquires CyraCom
DigitalTolk Buys 24translate
Powerling Announces Acquisition of Idem
Key Hires at XTM and CQ Fluency
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Florian and Esther catch up on a few weeks’ worth of language industry news with a surge of developments in speech translation. Apple’s on-device translation debuts in apps like iMessage and FaceTime, and OpenAI enhances ChatGPT‘s Advanced Voice Mode with more human-like interactions and real-time translation. Florian unpacks YouTube’s broad rollout of AI dubbing for 80 million creators in 20 languages, where he trials German and finds robotic voices, bad translations, and no editing options,...