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Jennifer Croft’s Hunt for a Missing Author
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 1 month agoThe Extinction of Irena Rey, the multilingual translator Jennifer Croft’s fun house of a debut novel, opens with a warning—not a note; not a foreword: a...
International Booker Prize 2024: Shortlist announced
Euronews via Yahoo News· 1 month agoThe shortlist for the International Booker Prize is finally here, celebrating some of the very best works of literature that were originally written in a...
Gertrude Wright, German who dodged bombs, fled the Russians and translated for Montgomery – obituary
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 months agoGertrude Wright, who has died 18 days short of her 100th birthday, lived an adventurous life. She...
Michael Alexander, poet and broadcaster whose Anglo-Saxon translations were used in Kenneth Clark’s...
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 5 months agoMichael Alexander, who has died aged 82, was a translator, poet, academic and broadcaster whose...
A global hit: AI translation tools help singers break down borders
Semafor via Yahoo News· 6 months agoThe Scene Singer Lala Sadii, who has five million subscribers on YouTube, wanted to connect with...
Meta releases an AI model that can transcribe and translate close to 100 languages
TechCrunch· 9 months agoIn its quest to develop AI that can understand a range of different dialects, Meta has created an AI...
How a Bible Error Changed History and Turned Gays Into Pariahs
The Advocate via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe words “homosexual” and “heterosexual” were first coined as German nouns by Austrian-born...
Meta's new multimodal translator uses a single model to speak 100 languages
Engadget· 9 months agoMeta has unveiled SeamlessM4T, its newest AI, "a foundational multilingual and multitask model that...
Springfield schools face influx of non-English speaking students
Springfield News-Sun, Ohio via Yahoo News· 8 months agoSep. 11—The number of non-English speaking students in Springfield City Schools has more than quadrupled — up 350 percent in four years — including hundreds of Haitian immigrants, prompting ...
North Dakota State professor provides first English translation of Sorbian novel
Grand Forks Herald via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOct. 25—GRAND FORKS — John Cox, a professor of history at NDSU, has provided the first English language translation of "The Cherry Tree," a novel published by Sorbian author Jurij Koch. Sorbian ...