🌍 METAGLOSSIA WEEKEND DIGEST, Issue No. 005 is out.
Beyond words and languages: Building bridges across worlds
Twenty stories on translation, interpreting and language technology, and one question: who pays for understanding, and who decides when it is enough?
📚 Eva Baltasar wins the Medícis étranger, a first for a book written in Catalan. Korea Times announces its translation awards.
🤖 DeepL’s CEO on real-time translation, RWS on the end of per-word pricing, and why press-release claims deserve checking.
🌐 What endangered languages can teach AI, speech-recognition error rates above 60% in Yoruba, and a plurilingualism colloquium in Saint-Louis, Senegal.
🎯 Canada’s interpreter capacity, RWS completing its Acolad deal, and a survey of literary translators on AI.
💼 Jobs and events for 6 to 13 November, including an Africa-focused UN Volunteers role.
👉 Read the issue:
💬 How should translation be priced when AI produces the first draft?