SlatorPod
Episodes
#84 M&A Shakes Up Nordic Language Industry, New Language Operations Pro Guide
27 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Slator’s very own Senior Research Analyst Anna Wyndham joins the Pod to give a sneak peek into the latest Slator Pro Guide: Language Operations. The...
#83 Smartcat CEO Ivan Smolnikov on Translation SaaS and Marketplaces
20 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In a guest-centered episode, Ivan Smolnikov, CEO and Founder of Smartcat, joins SlatorPod to talk about the company’s journey as a tech-powered SaaS...
#82 LanguageLoop CEO, TikTok’s Dutch Translation Penalty, SME Website Localization
30 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Elizabeth Compton, CEO of LanguageLoop, and Claire Mullins, National Translations Manager at the Australian language service provider (LSP), join Slat...
#81 TransPerfect Blowout Q2, Welocalize Buyer NLG, Reframing Video Localization
23 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s solo episode, Florian and Esther discuss the language industry news of the week, kicking off with a sneak peek into the brand new Sla...
#80 TAIA CEO Marko Hozjan on Scaling a Translation Startup
16 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Marko Hozjan, CEO and Co-founder of translation startup TAIA, joins SlatorPod to talk about his company’s journey from launch to their recent series...
#79 Women in Localization President Cecilia Maldonado on Translation in Latin America
09 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cecilia Maldonado, Director of Strategic Accounts at Latamways, joins SlatorPod to talk about the language industry landscape in Latin America and her...
#78 Zoom Adds Live Translation, Netflix Dubbing News, Toppan’s Christophe Djaouani
02 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Christophe Djaouani, President of newly launched Toppan Digital Language, joins SlatorPod to discuss the Japanese corporate giant’s plans to become ...
#77 Synthesia CEO Victor Riparbelli on Personalized Video in 40+ Languages
25 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Synthesia CEO and Co-founder Victor Riparbelli joins SlatorPod to discuss the company’s approach to operating and developing the world’s first and...
#76 BLEND Enters Voice Services, Keywords CEO Retires, Propio Gets Growth Equity
18 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s SlatorPod, Florian and Esther discuss the language industry news of the week, with BLEND’s acquisition of GM Voices, a voice and au...
#75 How Large Companies Buy Translation Services — With Procurement Cube’s Armand Brevig
11 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Armand Brevig, Managing Director of Procurement Cube, joins the pod to discuss how language service providers (LSPs) can work with Procurement at larg...
#74 Remote Simultaneous Interpreting With Interactio Co-founder Simona Andrijauskaitė
04 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Interactio Co-founder and Chief Business Development Officer Simona Andrijauskaitė joins SlatorPod to discuss the Lithuanian startup’s journey.Simo...
#73 What’s New in Machine Translation with TextShuttle CTO Samuel Läubli
28 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Samuel Läubli, Partner and CTO at TextShuttle, joins the pod to talk about the ins and outs of a language technology provider, and the current state ...
#72 Vistatec CEO Thomas Murray on Agile Localization and Organic Over Acquisitive Growth
21 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Vistatec CEO Thomas Murray joins the pod to discuss the company’s international presence, the tech and business environment, and managing growing co...
#71 Unbabel CEO Vasco Pedro on Translation Productivity, Lisbon’s Startup Scene, Growth Plans
14 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Vasco Pedro, CEO of Unbabel, joins SlatorPod to discuss the company’s growth journey — from identifying the initial use case to raising USD 60m in...
#70 Appen Shares Plunge, TRSB Buys Anglocom, Evaluating MT, Huge RFP in Sweden
07 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On SlatorPod this week, Florian and Esther discuss the language industry news of the week — and share the exciting agenda for SlatorCon Remote, whic...
#69 Massive Localization at Canva, RSI Learning Curve, and Regulating AI
30 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Florian is starstruck this week as Rachel Carruthers (Head of Internationalization and Localization) and Michael Levot (Localization Program Lead) fro...
#68 Lilt CEO Spence Green on Predictive Translation and the AI Agency’s Roadmap
23 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Spence Green, CEO and co-founder of tech-enabled language service provider Lilt, joins SlatorPod to talk about the journey from research concept to en...
#67 Papercup CEO and Science Advisor on Speech Translation and Synthetic Voices
16 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Papercup CEO Jesse Shemen and Science Advisor Simon King join the pod to discuss how they develop synthetic voices to make videos accessible in multip...
#66 Top Performing LSPs in Q1, MotionPoint Investment, Media Loc M&A, US Dubbing
09 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Florian and Esther discuss the language industry news of the week, where they compare the stock performance of the handful of publicly-listed LSPs bot...
#65 Media Loc’s Most Powerful CEO, KUDO Series A, Babylon Health’s Michela Simonelli
01 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Babylon Health Content Design and Localization Lead, Michela Simonelli, joins the pod to talk about hyper-local digital content, localizing high-touch...
#64 Language I/O Founders on USD 5m Series A, AI Writer, Translation Pricing Report
26 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Language I/O Co-founders Heather Shoemaker (CEO) and Kaarina Kvaavik (CBO) join the pod this week to discuss their newly announced Series A round, cha...
#63 Alex Katsambas on Localizing Billions of Words in Luxury Fashion
19 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s SlatorPod, Farfetch's Head of Linguistic Services, Alex Katsambas talks about the online luxury fashion platform’s localizatio...
#62 Netflix A/B Testing, Travod CEO Elena Grigoras, Ban in Japan
12 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Travod CEO Elena Grigoras joins the pod to discuss LSP’s past, present, and future. Elena talks about the company’s client mix and how Travod mana...
#61 XTM CEO Bob Willans on Raising Capital and the Future of Translation Pricing
05 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
XTM CEO Bob Willans joins the pod to discuss the journey of the company he co-founded back in 2002. Bob talks about growing XTM with little outside fu...
#60 Semantix Exec Britta Aagaard on EUR 34m EU GROW Translation Contract
26 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s SlatorPod, Semantix Chief Business Officer Britta Aagaard joins us to talk about their recent major deal win — a EUR 34m translatio...
#59 Limecraft CEO and Founder Maarten Verwaest on AI-enabled subtitling
19 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In SlatorPod #59, Limecraft CEO and Founder Maarten Verwaest joins us to talk about digital workflow management in the media sector and AI-enabled sub...
#58 Smartling CEO Jack Welde, Lengoo and XTM Funding, Systran and TAUS
12 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Smartling CEO Jack Welde joins the pod to talk about technology-enabled language services, scaling with fast-growing customers, the M&A and fundin...
#57 Kudo CEO Fardad Zabetian on Multilingual Meetings, Job Index Jumps
05 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In SlatorPod #57, Fardad Zabetian, Co-Founder and CEO of multilingual conferencing platform KUDO joins us to discuss the world of conferences and inte...
#56 Media Loc Mega-Deal, Mark Shriner on Sales and Asia, Call of Duty Loc Stats
29 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We welcome special guest Mark Shriner to this week’s SlatorPod. (Spoiler alert: He used to be Florian’s boss!) The longtime (former) language indu...
#55 Memsource CEO on Buying Phrase, Straker’s Lingotek Deal, TransPerfect FY 2020
22 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In SlatorPod #55, aka “TMS week,” Memsource Founder and CEO David Canek joins us to talk about the acquisition of localization SaaS provider Phras...
#54 Oxford Languages President Casper Grathwohl, M&A Report, LSP Growth Opportunities
15 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
President of Oxford Languages Casper Grathwohl joins the Pod from sunny Florida this week to discuss OUP’s business in lexical data, working with bi...
#53 Supertext Co-founder Fabian Dieziger, Brexit & Translators, SBA regulations for US LSPs
08 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the first episode of 2021, Fabian Dieziger, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Swiss-based language service provider (LSP) Supertext, joins the pod...
#52 Top 10 Stories of 2020, Isabelle Andrieu, co-Founder and Chairman of Translated
18 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the final episode of 2020, Isabelle Andrieu, co-Founder and Chairman of Italy-based LSP Translated, joins the pod to talk about her 20-year journey...
#51 RWS’ Plans for SDL, Top 10 NMT Papers, Graduating Translation in 2020
11 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The special guest for episode #51 is Slator’s very own Monica Jamieson, a new translation grad who joins the Pod to talk about why today’s 20-some...
#50 New Rates in Germany, Financial Translation, LSP Channel Partners
04 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this half-century, guestless episode of SlatorPod, Florian unpacks the contentious matter of pay rises for interpreters and translators in Germany’...
#49 Ex Netflix Exec Chris Fetner on EGA Launch, LSP Dying Zone, the First SPAC
27 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Former Netflix exec and Managing Director of EGA Chris Fetner joins the pod this week to talk about entertainment localization’s new association, th...
#48 GPT-3 for Translators, SLT CEO Kris Zdanowski, Translation Tests, Media Loc Unites
20 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Joining the pod is Kris Zdanowski, Founder and CEO of Summa Linguae Technologies. Kris talks about his entrepreneurial journey, from paying for receiv...
#47 Lionbridge Mega Deal, Altagram CEO Marie Amigues talks Game Localization
13 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Marie Amigues, Founder and CEO of Altagram, joins Slator Pod and talks to Esther and Florian about how she runs the fast-growing game localization pro...
#46 Smartcat Funding, 2M CEO Tea Dietterich, Loc Jobs Climb, Earnings Wrap
06 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Episode #46 of SlatorPod sees Florian and Esther welcome a very special guest and true linguist, 2M CEO Tea Dietterich joins the pod from Sunshine Coa...
#45 Medtech Loc, Venga Global CEO Kåre Lindahl, Language AI in Video, Amazon MT Fail
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Florian and Esther welcome Kåre Lindahl, CEO of Venga Global for a wide ranging discussion about language data as a business for LSPs, les...
#44 Facebook MT, Interprefy’s Kim Ludvigsen on RSI, Zoom Zapps, LSP Earnings
23 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Interprefy founder Kim Ludvigsen joins the pod this week to talk about why he decided to pass the CEO baton to Annett Polaszewski-Plath while business...
#43 RWS-SDL Greenlight, Pangeanic CEO Manuel Herranz Joins, thebigword's Big Promise
16 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Manuel Herranz, CEO of MT and language service provider Pangeanic joins SlatorPod. Manuel joins us for part two, after your regular hosts give a run d...
#42 TransPerfect Settles Wordfast, Sandeep Nulkar on India Loc Industry, Mozilla Kills Elmo
09 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Florian and Esther are joined by Sandeep Nulkar, CEO and Founder of BITS Private Limited and co-Founder of Vernac Language Technologies to discuss Ind...
#41 Tarjama CEO Nour Al Hassan; Translator Marketplaces, INC 5000 LSPs
02 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
SlatorPod welcomes Nour Al Hassan, CEO of the Middle East’s leading language services provider, Tarjama. A lawyer by training, Nour talks about how ...
#40 Acolad Buys AMPLEXOR; GLOBO's Gene Schriver talks On-Demand Interpreting
25 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Florian and Esther are joined by Gene Schriver, CEO and Founder of US-based on-demand interpreting tech and services provider GLOBO. Stay tuned for th...
#39 Petr Antropov on Lokalise Series A, BIG M&A, Why THG Insourced Translation
18 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In SlatorPod’s third guest episode, Florian and Esther are joined by Lokalise co-Founder Petr Antopov, fresh from his company’s Series A funding r...
#38 MT with Adam Bittlingmayer, Lokalise Series A, the “Outperforming Humans” Claim
11 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In SlatorPod’s second guest episode, Florian and Esther are joined by former Google Translate developer and ModelFront founder and CEO Adam Bittling...
#37 First guest episode with Kimon Fountoukidis! Plus RWS-SDL, China NLP Ban, AB5, Translation at WTO
04 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Florian and Esther are joined by 🎤special guest 🎤Kimon Fountoukidis, Founder and Chairman of Argos Multilingual for a frank and animated discuss...
#36 RWS to Buy SDL: Unpacking the Language Industry’s Deal of the Decade
28 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s SlatorPod, Florian and Esther share a hot take on❗the story of the week❗— if not of recent language industry history: RWS’s a...
#35 Good Times Bad Times for LSPs, Are Translation Equivalents Real? VRI Boom
21 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Florian and Esther talk about remote interpreting’s moment in the spotlight. From phone interpreting (OPI) to video remote interpreting (VRI) and re...
#34 SDL Soars, What’s Sockeye, Who Owns Systran, Loc at Infobip, Aussie Troubles
14 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In amongst arguing about salmon in this week’s SlatorPod, Florian and Esther talk about SDL’s shares, which rallied on the release of their H1 20...
#33 How LSPs Sell, RWS Pays Back, Machine Mistranslations, Signs of Life for Loc Jobs
07 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 33 of SlatorPod, Florian and Esther talk about fresh signs of recovery in the language industry, from the Slator Language Industry Job Inde...
#32 Crypto Linguists, TransPerfect Q2, LanguageLine, Salesforce MT Dataset, UK Contract
31 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s SlatorPod, Florian and Esther discuss the quirky use of social media ads by the Royal Australian Navy in their quest to recruit 40 cr...
#31 The World's Biggest Language Model, Kudo Raises 6M for Remote SI, Open Source Machine Interpreting
24 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Florian brings you this week’s language news from his hideaway in the mountains of Switzerland, sharing news on the world’s largest language model...
#30 The Most Interesting Loc Deal of 2020, India’s New LSP Org, Media Loc’s Solid Summer
17 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode, Florian and Esther delve into the numbers and rationale behind the Memsource transaction, as the translation technology (TMS...
#29 Stripe on Lack of Translation, More Memsource, SlatorCon, Best MT Paper
10 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Florian talks about research from Silicon Valley start-up Stripe, which surveyed hundreds of e-commerce websites for issues at checkout, the most comm...
#28 Memsource Goes Big, UK Mega Tender, Intento Seed Round, Jobs Decline Slows
03 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode, Florian shares breaking news from the world of M&A and funding, as translation technology provider Memsource sold a majo...
#27 Apple Translate, Localised Series A, SOSi Invests in Apptek, L10N at Deliveroo, Japan M&A
26 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Florian and Esther discuss Apple’s announcement that its new operating system, iOS 14, will come pre-loaded with a Translate app when it’s release...
#26 Biggest MT Survey, Interpreter Protest, Google Translate, M&A is Back
19 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In a half-year anniversary episode, Florian and Esther unpack a wide-scale European Union survey of small and medium enterprises. Nearly 2,900 SMEs re...
#25 Google TM Snafu, Translator Salaries, RWS Iconic M&A, AB5 in California
12 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Florian and Esther talk Google snafu, delving into the story of how Google “inadvertently sent” users’ translation memory data to someone else. ...
#24 Puzzled Interpreters, Loc at Verizon, Surprising MT, Jobs Vanish
05 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Florian and Esther discuss the plight of the EU’s contract interpreters. While conference interpreting work has dried up, the ca. 3,000 contract int...
#23 Netflix MTs Subs, RSI on Zoom, 9 Translation Markets, Defenders of French
29 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode, Florian and Esther discuss Netflix’s recent paper on sentence simplification and machine translation, destined to help imp...
#22 Japan’s Undervalued LSP, Australia and VRI, Translator Strike Contd.
22 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
#22 Japan’s Undervalued LSP, Australia and VRI, Translator Strike Contd.In this week’s podcast, Florian shares news from Japan’s largest LSP, Ho...
#21 Cash for Lilt and Plint, Presbyterian Loc, Game M&A, SlatorCon Goes Remote
15 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Despite Esther’s laptop going into its own form of lockdown, Florian and Esther ploughed ahead to bring you this week’s language industry news. Fl...
#20 thebigword’s email, Amazon Subs, Germany Says No, LSP Sales Tool
08 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Florian and Esther pick out two of their favorite sales and biz dev insights from the recently launched Slator 2020 Language Industry Market Report: 4...
#19 Facebook Terminology, 2020 Report Launch, EU LSPs Struggle, AB5 Hope
01 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Florian and Esther share highlights from the newly-released Slator 2020 Language Industry Market Report. The 55-page report features a wealth of insig...
#18 DeepL Custom Hints, EU MDR Delay, Dub Studios Reopen, Google Live Translation
24 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In another lockdown episode, Florian discusses how LSPs are faring in the current climate. He also previews the results from the European Language Ind...
#17 Startup Cuts, Super Agency Headwinds, Fixing Gender in NMT
17 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
#17 Startup Cuts, Super Agency Headwinds, Fixing Gender in NMTFlorian and Esther discuss the language industry startup environment amid the coronaviru...
#16 Polluted TMs, LSP Sells Masks, RWS as Proxy, Loc at Corona Test Manufacturer
09 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Florian shares his own bizarre story of being pitched coronavirus masks by an LSP over LinkedIn. Esther discusses news that LSPs are suing the Transla...
#15 Loc Jobs Dry Up, Furloughs, LSP Crisis Management, Clinical Trial Translations
03 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Florian highlights some stories picked up this week in SlatorSweep, Slator’s daily news aggregation service, including Keywords Studios’ decision ...
#14 Flawed MT Review, TransPerfect v. Lionbridge, LSPs, Freelancers & Corona
27 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Florian and Esther share an update on the impact of Coronavirus on the language industry, zooming in on contingency plans communicated by SDL, ZOO Dig...
#13 Airbnb Loc, Continuity Despite COVID-19, CIOL Survey, Multilingual Podcasts
20 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s SlatorPod, Florian and Esther discuss the collective responses of more than 40 LSPs to the Coronavirus pandemic, from remote working ...
#12 Corona Affecting Language Industry, Loc at Fisher Investments
13 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Capping off a hectic week with a Friday 13th special, Florian and Esther unpack the state of the language industry as Coronavirus goes global. From re...
#11 Corona Impact, Magic Translator, LSP Growth Ranking, AILIA
06 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Esther gives a short briefing on the AILIA conference she attended in Ottawa last week. The two discuss how the ongoing economic disruptions caused by...
#10 *Special Edition* Slator 2020 Language Service Provider Index
28 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Who came in top? Who grew fastest? Who struggled? Florian and Esther discuss the newly released Slator 2020 Language Service Provider Index (LSPI), fe...
#9 Top 10 LSPs of 2019, Testing Google’s Interpreter Mode, Capita TI for Sale, Norway Terp RFP
21 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Florian and Esther share a sneak peak of 2019’s LSP results ahead of publishing the Slator 2020 LSPI next week. Get an exclusive look at the top 10 ...
#8 What's Trans-Adaptation? Kiwi M&A, Honyaku's Miss, India Data, Loc Meetup
14 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
SlatorPod #8! Esther shares details about localization at US-based coaching app BetterUp, which works with enterprise customers across 62 countries an...
#7 DeepL Breakthrough? UK Game Localizers Are Special, Mexican Dubbing, Straker Financials
07 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Florian talks about DeepL’s claims of making yet another “breakthrough” in what they call “AI translation quality”. Esther unpacks a recent ...
#6 The TMS Question, 475M Stratus Deal, UK Manifesto, Slator LSP Index Heads-up
31 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
SlatorPod #6! Florian Faes and Esther Bond unpack ASICS’ localization strategy and weigh up the benefits of centralized and local procurement strate...
#5 Interpreter Strike, Amazon Machine Dubbing, Super Agencies 2019 Financials
24 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
SlatorPod #5! Florian Faes and Esther Bond discuss the 1,500-strong interpreter strike in the Netherlands. Florian talks about Amazon’s foray into a...
#4 Lionbridge Lawsuit, HOOQ Media Localization, Translator Scams, CES and Translation Gadget
17 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
SlatorPod #4! Florian Faes and Esther Bond discuss South-East Asia streaming joint-venture HOOQ and their localization efforts across a handful of Asi...
#3 Loc Meetup, EU 60M Awards, LSP Scorecard, 2020 Predictions, Q1 Speaking
10 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
SlatorPod #3! Florian Faes and Esther Bond discuss London localization meet-ups, the European Parliament’s giant Translation Directorate’s EUR 60m...
#2 Top 2019 Quotes, Kantan MT Acquisition, AB5 Law
20 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Florian Faes and Esther Bond discuss the week’s language industry news.Featured this week: the top language industry quotes of 2019 including TransP...
#1 Denmark, EU, RWS, Buyer Panel
13 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
SlatorPod #1, the very first edition! Florian Faes and Esther Bond discuss the week’s language industry news. Featured this week: a giant interpreti...