Intento Spotlight launch, connectors for Wordbee and Wordfast, new Chrome Extension release, and more

Natalia Rice

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Intento

5 min readNov 11, 2020

Hi, network!

Here comes our October MT digest, let’s jump in.

🔦 Introducing SPOTLIGHT: Join an online launch event

📖 Everything about MT customization

🧩 New Intento connectors

🏙 Dodging AI biases in Future-Proof Machine Translation Solutions

🧰 MT and AI news and updates

NEW KID ON THE BLOCK: SPOTLIGHT

Meet a new addition to the Intento family — a brand new product SPOTLIGHT.

Spotlight is a tool that allows you to evaluate the results of MT training wisely, without rolling the dice of random sampling. It is for you if you’re involved in MT training and customization.

Join our online launch event on 12 November at 5 pm GMT to be the first to know!

WHAT IS MT CUSTOMIZATION AND WHY DO YOU NEED IT?

Dive deeper into the subject of MT customization. Learn how to choose an engine, how to prepare your data, and how much of it you need, what metrics to use to evaluate success, and what to look out for. How do you know you’ve succeeded and what is the reasonable cost of MT training?

Get all the answers in this blog post.

INTENTO at SLATORCON

Meet us at SlatorCon Remote 2020 on December 3rd at 11 am EST. Intento’s CEO Konstantin Savenkov will present Enterprise MT Adoption: Final Barriers and Strategies.

These are the topics that will be covered:

Quality, technical, and user adoption challenges are close to being solved
The next challenge is to adjust the supply chains to leverage the full MT potential and ROI
The flat PE discount model incentivizes neither enterprises nor LSPs to improve MT quality
Pros and cons of other approaches to Fair-Price Post-Editing

INTENTO at GlobalSaké

Intento took part in the GlobalSaké event, dedicated to a range of futuristic technologies in different industries. Explore the talks and see what we had to say about Dodging AI biases in Future-Proof Machine Translation Solutions.

NEW CONNECTORS

INTENTO and WORDBEE

Calling all Wordbee users! We’re excited to bring you a new connector and launch a new partnership.

Wordbee is well-known for delivering its Enterprise TMS promise and highly appreciated by both enterprise and LSP users. We at Intento, Inc. are experts at fitting Machine Translation to purpose with our tools. Together, we’ll be empowering globalization efforts in many industries, bringing the tangible value of increased speed, better quality, and lower costs. We hope Wordbee users will unlock the full MT potential through using our MT Hub for their localization projects, as well as leveraging the same MT engines for their Customer Support, Community Management and Office Productivity initiatives via Intento integrations to other enterprise systems.

Read the story.

INTENTO and WORDFAST

There’s another new connector this month!

The Wordfast Anywhere users can now also leverage the Intento technologies with the new connector.

INTENTO CHROME EXTENSION RELEASES A NEW VERSION

We’re happy to announce version 0.3.1 of the Chrome extension.

Here’s what’s new:

We have improved the way you authenticate yourself with the Extension — no more API keys! Just sign in with your Intento account.
You can now translate contents in Confluence and JIRA with the Intento Chrome Extension. If you work in a global company and struggle to understand your international colleagues’ writing, worry no more. Just see what Intento Chrome Extension can do in Atlassian products.
The context menu has been improved to show you the option to translate in the reverse direction (something you might need when you have a conversation in different languages and need both to read and write). Remember, you can also do it faster with the keyboard shortcuts. We have improved support for the right-to-left languages like Arabic or Hebrew. You can now translate to and from these languages seeing the page layout that works correctly. Below is how our blogpost will look in Arabic.

NEW MT VENDOR ON THE PLATFORM

We always welcome new AI vendors, and are constantly adding new providers to our catalog. This month, we welcome AISA, a tech company, and MT provider from Singapore. AISA MT is now available on the Intento platform and in all plugins. To access the services, please make sure you have AISA subscription.