Zoom Announces Launch of Live Translation in 12 Languages

Zoom宣布推出12种语言的实时翻译功能

2021-09-15 10:54 multilingual

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The digital communications platform Zoom announced Sept. 13 that the company will be launching a new live translation feature to the platform within the next year. The company has been exploring translation options for a while now, in order to accommodate the platform’s global usership, which skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic. This announcement comes just a couple of months after Zoom acquired Kites, a German start-up specializing in artificial intelligence and machine translation. When Zoom acquired Kites in June 2021, the company’s leadership stated that it was planning to take advantage of the newly acquired company’s technological capacity to develop translation features for the platform. “Zoom connects users across the world, and this expansion of our transcription and translation features will help to overcome the language barrier that can prevent dynamic communication and collaboration,” the company wrote in a blog post announcing the new live translation feature, as well as a host of other new features to be added to the platform. The forthcoming feature will allow users to access live transcriptions in 30 languages and live translations in 12, though Zoom did not specify which languages exactly would be available on the platform. In addition to the live translation and transcription features, the company also announced a number of other features to be added to the platform, such as an improved whiteboard function and a series of updates to the platform’s chat feature. In a statement to the press, Vasco Pedro, the CEO and co-founder of language operations platform Unbabel, said he believes Zoom’s new live translation feature is a major improvement to the platform, and could give businesses more opportunities to expand globally. “Today’s launch of Zoom’s live translation service validates the important role that languages play in the globalization of the workplace,” he said. “We see this as a signal that language translation technology will be infused in every function of the enterprise. It’s not just about talking to customers in their native languages, but talking to coworkers, vendors, etc. in whatever language they prefer. The whole workplace is becoming multilingual.”
数字通信平台Zoom于9月13日宣布,公司将在明年为该平台推出一项新的实时翻译功能。该公司探索翻译选项已有一段时间了,以适应该平台的全球用户,在新冠肺炎大流行期间,该平台的用户数量猛增。 这一声明发布前几个月,Zoom刚刚收购了德国初创企业风筝(Kites),后者专注于人工智能和机器翻译。Zoom在2021年6月收购风筝时,公司领导层表示,计划利用新收购的公司的技术能力,为该平台开发翻译功能。 "Zoom将世界各地的用户联系在一起,我们的转录和翻译功能的这一扩展将有助于克服可能阻碍动态沟通和协作的语言障碍,"该公司在一篇博客文章中写道,宣布了新的实时翻译功能,以及将添加到平台的一系列其他新功能。 即将推出的功能将允许用户访问30种语言的实时转录和12种语言的实时翻译,但Zoom没有具体说明该平台上究竟有哪些语言。除了实时翻译和转录功能外,该公司还宣布将在该平台上增加一些其他功能,如改进的白板功能和对该平台聊天功能的一系列更新。 在一份对媒体的声明中,语言运营平台Unbabel的首席执行官兼联合创始人瓦斯科·佩德罗(Vasco Pedro)表示,他相信Zoom新的实时翻译功能是该平台的重大改进,可能会给企业提供更多全球扩张的机会。 他说:"今天推出的Zoom的实时翻译服务验证了语言在工作场所全球化中的重要作用,"他补充道,"我们认为这是一个信号,语言翻译技术将渗透到企业的每一个功能中。这不仅仅是用客户的母语与他们交谈,而是用他们喜欢的任何语言与同事、供应商等交谈。整个工作场所正在变得多语言化"。

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