When asked recently about Spain’s request to make Catalan, Basque and Galician official languages of the European Union, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz offered a confident answer: “I believe that even in the medium term there is a very good solution: one day, thanks to artificial intelligence, we will no longer need interpreters. We will be…
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Why the Next Big Wave of Speech Innovation May Be Hyperlocal
In the fast-moving world of artificial intelligence, speech translation is often portrayed as a race already won by a handful of global titans. Meta, Google, Microsoft, Zoom, and a few others have built astonishing systems capable of turning speech from one language into another almost instantly. Around them, a constellation of specialized companies — KUDO,…