How AI Is Challenging Traditional Translators - DZone AI

In the last decade, translation services have grown exponentially to include hardware devices such as Travis Translator, earphones such as Waverly Labs' pilot, Microsoft Translator, -- which not only translates text, but also speech, images, and street signs -- Google translate, and Facebook translation. Translations are occurring faster and with greater accuracy thanks to machine translation. But what does this mean for the traditional translator? As an expatriate in Germany, I am a user of both translation services and translation software, so I was interested to find out more. I spoke with the CEO and founder of Gengo, Matt Romaine.