The Economist20m
Machine translation is almost a solved problem. Making it perfect will be a hard problem
Machine translation has become so reliable and ubiquitous so fast that many users no longer see it. The first computerised ...
The Reporter1h
Good Work and Good News: Meet Janet Hague, director of the Hatfield Food Cupboard
One in a series of interviews with North Penn area local leaders working to help food-insecure neighbors and those ...
How the Spanish Scrabble world champion beat competitors without speaking the language
A New Zealand man playing his first-ever competitive Scrabble game in Spanish, a language he doesn’t speak, has won the board ...
Spain’s new Scrabble champion doesn’t speak Spanish
A man playing his first-ever competitive Scrabble game in Spanish, a language he doesn’t speak, has won the board game’s ...
Current1h
NextGen TV station transmits real-time closed captioning translations
Public Media Venture Group’s testbed ATSC 3.0 NextGen TV station in Tennessee is translating closed captioning from English ...
Opinion | With its adaptation of ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ Netflix pulls off the impossible
The Netflix adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez's 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' gave many people pause, but, remarkably, ...
With its adaptation of ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ Netflix pulls off the impossible
Netflix must have known that the stakes were high and that adapting this cherished novel into a series was a task it couldn’t ...
KERA News2h
State agency to ask lawmakers for $300 million to fix “significant neglect” in Texas’ Medicaid enrollment system
The request, which includes hiring more staff and updating the online application system, comes as applicants must wait for ...
Publishers Weekly3h
Guadalajara Book Fair Puts Spanish Audiobooks in the Spotlight
The Guadalajara International Book Fair hosted its first forum dedicated exclusively to audiobooks, reflecting the format's ...
Texas agency to ask for $300 million to fix “significant neglect” in Medicaid enrollment system
In Texas, health advocates often find themselves playing defense to encourage leaders to preserve the state’s relatively ...
Chalkbeat4h
California banned bilingual education for almost 20 years. It still hasn’t recovered.
We were punished for speaking Spanish,” recalled Bárbara Flores, who would go on to train thousands of teachers. “We were hit ...