Hi folks!
On the production side, the lines are blurring. It’s no longer only TMSes adding AI, now translation AI companies are launching their own TMS platforms too!
Meanwhile, thanks to Claude, the homemade translation tools shared in our community are starting to look more and more polished, but they’re also becoming more similar. Commoditization is happening fast.
Event season is in full swing, and there are plenty of jobs!
Enjoy - and share!
🗞️ News
AMTA opensfor its 2026 conference in Québec City.registrationTAUS opensfor its conference in Vancouver.registrationLocWorld 56 opensfor its conference in Vancouver.registrationRomhack.ing, a hub for fan-translated retro games,pullsmachine-translatedversionsto protect human ones.
🚀 Launches
DeepL launches, connecting enterprise apps likeTranslation FlowGoogle Drive andSharePoint to its MT,glossaries,** style guides**, and** human review routing**.** RWSlauncheswithTrados Studio 2026context-aware AI, nativeLanguage Weaver Pro**, and LLM support.** Ray-Ban Metaglasses nowsupport real-timeKoreantranslation.xAI launchesfor21 multilingual voicesGrok’s Voice Agent Builder**, now supporting 25+ languages.** TAUSlaunchesaCanadian Frenchquality estimationmodel.Lara Translate launchesaudio-to-audiotranslation, mobileimagetranslation, andMicrosoft Edgesupport.Gradium launchesstt-translateands2s-translatespeech models.Gyeonggi Province launchesa multilingual AI portalwith integrated MT forforeign residents**.** NagaTranslateaddsa new domain and(voiceTTS andspeech recognition**).** DeepMangais a newopen-sourcemanga translationtoolbuilt onPaddleOCR** andGemini.
🛠️ Community launches
An open-source machine translatorforindigenous languages.AChromeextension for translatingwebpages,PDFs, andDOCXfilesusing your own LLM API.AChromeextensionthat showsGoogle Translate output for any selected text.An offline, lightweight version of the
OPUS-MT/Mariantranslation engine.A tool tomask sensitive datalocallybefore sending it for AI translation.Local,real-timesubtitlesand translationforstreamers.A translationquality-checktoolwithMQM-based error annotations,** back-translation**, and** style guide**support.
📚 Research
EAMT publishesits.2026 proceedingsNeTTiT publishesthe first version of its.2026 proceedingsCan AI
detectorsflag AI translations?ModelFront debunksmyths aboutquality estimationand.automatic post-editing
🎙️ Podcasts and videos
covers language AISlatorPodstartups,** voiceAI, and Anthropic**.’s recording is available on demand.GenAI in Localization
❔ Questions
“” — why Apple and Timekettle get it wrongAsymmetric AI TranslatorTranslating your own work from yournative languageinto EnglishBest free AIPDFtranslatorfor text that isn’t editable
📆 Events
— 31 August - 2 September — Québec City 🇨🇦AMTA 2026— 13 - 14 September — Online / Nara 🇯🇵AAMT 2026— 14 - 18 September — Karlsruhe 🇩🇪MT Marathon 2026— 8 October — San Francisco 🇺🇸Translation AI at Tech Week— November — Budapest 🇭🇺WMT 2026
💻 Jobs
atMultilingual AI Quality SpecialistSpotify- Stockholm 🇸🇪 or London 🇬🇧Software Engineer, LocalizationatOpenAI— San Francisco 🇺🇸Applied Scientist II, GenAI/LLM, Translation ServicesatAmazon Science— Seattle 🇺🇸Applied Scientist II, Alexa InternationalatAmazon— Bellevue 🇺🇸SeniorandPrincipal Applied Scientist, Speech and TranslationatMicrosoft— Redmond 🇺🇸Solution Architect, Language/TranslationatDeepL— Texas, New York, San Francisco 🇺🇸atLocalization Technical Solution ArchitectBlizzard Entertainment— Irvine 🇺🇸Senior Software Engineer, Localization EngineeringatAutodesk— Vancouver 🇨🇦atHead of LocalisationGallup— London 🇬🇧atAI Enablement Localization SpecialistSAS— Madrid 🇪🇸Senior Localization Engineer, Applied AIatTenable— Dublin 🇮🇪atPrincipal AI ResearcherPhrase— Remote (EEA) 🇪🇺Machine Learning Engineer, Speech and TranslationatmyLanguage— Remote 🇺🇸Assistant Professor, Language Technologies and AI GovernanceatUniversity of Warwick— Coventry 🇬🇧atNLU and MT InternDB Cargo Hungária— Frankfurt 🇩🇪