🌏 The machine translation newsletter - June 2026
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🌏 The machine translation newsletter - June 2026
Cecilia Yalangozian<br>Jun 17, 2026
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Hi folks!<br>Tons of jobs! 16 new open roles this month, from OpenAI to NVIDIA .<br>More live translation deployments this month in police departments, construction sites, and phone calls.<br>Meanwhile, DeepL ’s transition to AWS introduces US data jurisdiction into the equation. With the sudden government restrictions on Anthropic ’s Fable and Mythos models, companies are questioning supply chain risks.<br>Conference season is here. EAMT started this week in Tilburg, and the calendar is packed through November.<br>The man who led Google Translate ’s transition to neural and Transformers, Macduff Hughes , shared his thoughts in a fireside chat.<br>Enjoy—and share!
🗞️ News<br>Audible reports 50 million minutes of AI-narrated content played.
Quebec language laws open the door to automated web translation.
💼 Business<br>ModelFront announces outcome-based pricing .
DeepL acquires Mixhalo for low-latency audio in live events.
DeepL shifts data from EU to US jurisdiction via Amazon partnership.
TransPerfect replaces Widn.AI with GlobalLinkNow .
Youdao reports MT growth in Q1 earnings.
Interpreters Unlimited adds AI interpretation to GSA contract.
More business →<br>🚀 Launches<br>Google launches Gemini 3.5 Live Translate .
Alibaba launches Qwen3.5-LiveTranslate-Flash , real-time speech translation with voice cloning.
ElevenLabs releases Dubbing v2 with speaker emotion preservation.
OneMeta launches real-time interpretation for emergency services in Mexico ahead of FIFA 2026 .
T-Mobile launches beta live translation.
Daewoo E&C launches AI translator for foreign workers .
A California police department adds live translation for officers .
Xiaomi launches clip-on earbuds with AI translation.
More launches →<br>📚 Research<br>WMT 2026 announces a shared task on translation quality evaluation .
Linguists flag 71% of TranslateGemma-12b subtitle translations.
Fine-tuning TranslateGemma-4B for English-Welsh translation.
More research →<br>🎙️ Interviews<br>Macduff Hughes , former Google Translate Director of Engineering, on the 2016 neural MT transition and the LLM era.
❔ Questions<br>MTQE as a workflow trigger in production
AI tool for book translation
Real-time translation on Quest AR
Subtitle localization QC
Multilingual WordPress plugins
Translating a 70MB PDF
Reliability signals in AI translation
Omni and OpenNovel for translation
Translating PDFs with no selectable text
Japanese MT beyond the “easiest” answer
AI voice-over for non-English
Video transcription for non-European languages
AI tools for technical docs
More questions →<br>📆 Events<br>EAMT 2026 — 15 - 18 June — Tilburg 🇳🇱
NeTTiT 2026 — 24 - 27 June — Dubrovnik 🇭🇷
IWSLT 2026 — 3 - 4 July — San Diego 🇺🇸
AMTA 2026 — 31 August - 2 September — Québec City 🇨🇦
MT Marathon 2026 — 14 - 18 September — Karlsruhe 🇩🇪
SF Tech Week Translation AI — 8 October — San Francisco 🇺🇸
WMT 2026 — November — Budapest 🇭🇺
More events →<br>💻 Jobs<br>Senior Software Engineer , Localization Engineering at Autodesk — Vancouver 🇨🇦
Research Engineer , Machine Translation at Sanas — Palo Alto 🇺🇸
Senior Applied Scientist , Translation Services at Amazon — Hyderabad 🇮🇳
AI Researcher / ML Engineer , ASR and Speech at LILT — Boston 🇺🇸
Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA — Hamburg 🇩🇪
AI Technical Program Manager , Localization at Canva — London 🇬🇧
Software Engineer , Machine Translation at Solerity — Fort Meade 🇺🇸
Solution Architect , Language/Translation at DeepL — New York 🇺🇸
AI Research Manager , Translation Quality at DeepL — London 🇬🇧
Staff Research Scientist , Language AI at DeepL — Munich 🇩🇪
Software Engineer , Localization at OpenAI — San Francisco 🇺🇸
Localization Product Strategist at Google — Boulder 🇺🇸
Senior AI/NLP/ML Expert at Stott and May — Brussels 🇧🇪
Prompt Engineer , Translation Management at Schmieder Translations — Telangana 🇮🇳
Member of Technical Staff , Multilingual at Cohere — New York 🇺🇸
Machine Learning Engineer , Globalization at Netflix — United States 🇺🇸
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