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As AI does more of our thinking, how much of ourselves do we surrender along the way? " Cognitive Selfhood and the Last Human Right As AI takes on more thinking, what happens to the self doing the thinking? Updated August 26, 2026 Reviewed by Davia Sills Key points AI is changing how we think and how we experience ourselves. Cognitive selfhood means remaining meaningfully present in our own thinking. Every human right begins with a self that is there to hold it. Over 100 years ago, Auguste Deter sat across from the physician Alois Alzheimer, struggling to answer simple questions about her life. Her memory was failing, along with other elements of cognition that most of us take for granted. At one point, she offered a remarkable description of what was happening to her: “I have, so to speak, lost myself.” Her words are powerful and resonant. She didn’t simply say that she had lost her memory or couldn’t remember. She said she had lost herself. Alzheimer’s disease is much more complicated than memory loss, but her words point toward something we almost intuitively understand. Cognition isn’t simply something the self possesses; it’s part of how the self is constructed and experienced. We tend to think of cognition in functional and rather practical terms. We remember, reason, judge, imagine, and decide. When these capacities begin to fail in dementia, something deeper may change along with them. People with dementia can certainly retain important aspects of identity and agency even with significant cognitive decline. But Deter’s observation raises a fundamental question. How much of who we are is connected to the thinking we do? Artificial intelligence approaches that question from a very different direction. With Alzheimer’s disease, cognition can be involuntarily diminished. With AI, cognition can be expanded while portions of the cognitive work are voluntarily handed somewhere else. The machine becomes a cognitive alternative that remembers, writes, analyzes, and participates in decisions that were once the domain of our human brains. AI’s output can be extraordinary, yet our own participation in producing that output becomes smaller. This is the emerging issue of cognitive surrender. The concern isn’t that AI makes us less intelligent or somehow diminishes our humanity. AI can be an extraordinary cognitive partner, and many use it that way every day. But its growing role in our thinking raises another question about what I would call cognitive selfhood. Cognitive selfhood is our meaningful participation in the thinking through which we experience and become ourselves. It doesn’t require that every thought originate independently inside our heads—that was never true. Teachers, books, conversations, and culture have always shaped our thinking. But I believe that AI introduces something different in degree and perhaps eventually in kind. It can enter the production of an idea before that idea has fully formed within us. It can complete the argument, suggest the judgment, and sometimes provide the thought itself. This creates a curious inversion. In dementia, cognitive capacity can decline, and the experience of self can become disrupted along with it. With AI, our cognitive capacity can increase dramatically even as our participation in that cognition decreases. We may know more and reason more effectively while becoming less certain about where our own cognition ends and another intelligence begins. This is where the idea of a human right becomes relevant, although perhaps in a more fundamental sense than we typically use the term. And to be clear, I’m not arguing for another item in a legal or political catalog of rights. I’m thinking about something that comes before the catalog itself. As AI becomes increasingly capable of participating in our thinking, there may be something fundamental worth preserving. We must preserve our participation in the cognitive processes that help constitute who we are. Auguste Deter’s words came from the tragedy of a disease that was taking something from her. AI presents almost the opposite circumstance. We are gaining extraordinary cognitive capability, often willingly and enthusiastically. Yet her words offer a strangely relevant and important warning. If cognition is deeply connected to selfhood, the question isn’t simply how much thinking a machine can do for us. It’s how much of our own thinking we need to retain to remain meaningfully ourselves. Why 'Relational Foreclosure' Matters in the Age of AI After all, every other human right assumes there is a self there to hold it. And that makes cognitive selfhood something more fundamental than another right on the list. It may be the last human right because, without it, the others begin to lose their meaning." https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-digital-self/202608/cognitive-selfhood-the-last-human-right #metaglossia #metaglossia_mundus
"Charles Tiayon, cartographer of the translation world
Charles Tiayon is a translator, lecturer and consultant whose Scoop.it activity reflects the professional universe named in his bio: translation, terminology, lexicography and intercultural issues. Through METAGLOSSIA, his public selection tracks language as a field of work, a field of rights, and a field being altered by AI.
A systems view of language
Tiayon looks at translation as a living system. His selections connect interpreters, translators, dictionary makers, universities, publishers, language activists and software companies, rather than treating them as separate worlds.
Technology with memory
AI is a recurring concern, but it is not treated as the whole story. Real-time speech translation, OCR and voice AI appear alongside older and slower forms of linguistic work: dictionaries, terminology, literary translation and language education.
A multilingual compass
The geographic spread is notably international, with attention to French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Maltese, Breton, Ukrainian, Filipino, Indigenous languages in Canada and Indian language politics. No single country dominates the map.
What defines this selection
Archive-scale attention
With 99,235 posts analysed in a single topic, this is a long-running, high-volume observatory of the translation world. The account dates back to 2011, giving the selection the feel of an archive as much as a live feed.
A broad professional lens
The material moves easily between AI translation tools, national dictionaries, literary translation, terminology work, market news and language policy. That range reflects a professional view of language work as both craft and infrastructure.
Mixed-source reliability
The sources span institutions, universities, technology companies, mainstream media and regional outlets. UNESCO, university sites, DeepL, Mistral, CBC, Ouest-France and other sources create a mixed diet of policy, research, product news and local reporting.
Specialist reach, public scale
The audience numbers are substantial, with more than 567,000 views and over 424,000 unique visitors across all topics. The reach suggests sustained interest beyond a narrow specialist circle.
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Metaglossia: The Translation World
This flagship topic covers translation, interpreting, intercultural communication, terminology and lexicography as they unfold in public life. It is especially strong on AI language tools, institutional language policy, minority languages, literary translation and dictionaries.
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Where language becomes infrastructure
Charles Tiayon’s main topic reads like a newsroom for the language professions, but with a wider lens than trade news alone. Translation, interpreting, terminology and lexicography appear beside minority-language rights, literary circulation, dictionaries, competitions, and the fast-moving world of AI speech and OCR tools.
Metaglossia: The Translation World
The strongest thread is the collision between language as culture and language as system. A new Maltese digital dictionary, a Doha historical dictionary with text-to-speech, UNESCO and Unicode cooperation, and First Nations language translation all sit in the same frame as DeepL, Mistral OCR, and real-time speech models.
Metaglossia: The Translation World
His editorial voice is not silent aggregation. The analysis points to regular INSIGHT notes, often substantial and quote-based, with an explanatory tone and occasional sharper framing when language politics or AI consequences are at stake. The result is a practical map of a field being reshaped by institutions, software, markets and communities at once."
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Live Voice translation is the AI Americans want most, ahead of email drafting and meeting notes, new DeepL research finds
Live Voice translation is the AI Americans want most, ahead of email drafting and meeting notes, new DeepL research finds
PR Newswire
New DeepL research finds real-time conversation translation is the #1 AI tool Americans say would be most personally useful, chosen by 42% – more than 4x the share who picked AI meeting summaries (10%).
59% of business leaders say the conversations that matter most happen outside scheduled meetings, where transcripts and summaries can't follow
NEW YORK, Aug. 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- New research from DeepL, a leading global Language AI company, finds that real-time conversation translation tops the list of AI tools Americans say would be most useful to them. Forty-two percent chose AI that translates live conversations in real time, more than 4x those who chose meeting summaries (10%), followed by document search (9%), writing emails (9%) and creating presentations or content (8%). Business leaders see the same opportunity, with 43% saying live speech translation would create more business value than AI that summarizes meetings afterward (30%). These findings come from two new surveys commissioned by DeepL and conducted by Censuswide from June 23-30 2026 among 2,000 business decision makers at US-based global companies and 2,000 US general consumers.
Many US companies already work across languages every day, but most aren't equipped to do this live. Nearly all business leaders surveyed (96%) say real-time multilingual communication is important or critical to their company's growth, with 65% operating across four or more languages. But just 21% say their company can effectively support it in live conversations. That matters, because 59% say their most important conversations often happen outside formal, scheduled meetings, where transcripts and summaries are of little help.
This gap has real consequences. Sixty-one percent of Americans say they have nodded along, smiled or pretended to understand during a conversation because of a language barrier, and 42% have agreed to something they did not fully understand. Twenty-two percent of business leaders say people simply pretend to understand when language gaps arise, while 32% acknowledge that their organizations "assume people understood more often than we verify."
"Language runs through everything we do, including how we work with each other, with customers and with partners. When people can't communicate with one another, it comes with costs we don't always notice immediately but that can have detrimental impact on the way work gets done - whether that's valuable ideas going unshared and people holding back, or critical context being missed," said Jarek Kutylowski, CEO and Founder, DeepL. "Our latest research shows that this is an everyday reality even for US companies, with 65% working across four or more languages and just 21% equipped to actually support multilingual communication in real time. Voice AI translation can close this gap so that employees, customers and partners can communicate naturally, in their first language without losing any meaning or connection."
The AI Americans want is a live translator for real-time conversations
Real-time conversation translation was the top choice of AI tool among Americans, at 42% – more than four times the share who chose AI meeting summaries (10%).
43% of business decision makers say live speech translation would create more business value than AI that summarizes meetings afterward (30%).
59% of leaders say important business conversations always or often happen outside formal, scheduled meetings, where transcripts, captions and AI summaries can't follow.
Existing translation tools aren't earning trust: 51% of Americans who have used a translation app, chatbot, earbuds or captions in a live conversation have had them fail, most often through lag (29%) or mistranslating something important (27%). 25% say it made the interaction more awkward, and 22% stopped using the tool.
67% agree that typing into a translation app can kill the emotion, humor or human connection of a conversation. 45% say speaking normally while hearing translated speech in real time would feel most natural, double the share who chose a human interpreter (22%) and more than three times typing into an app (13%).
People are working around the problem, not solving it
61% of Americans have nodded along, smiled, or pretended to understand during a live conversation because of a language barrier.
42% have agreed to something they didn't fully understand. Of those, 36% agreed to a work task, 26% to a purchase or service agreement, 18% to a legal, financial or insurance matter, and 15% to a medical instruction or treatment detail.
54% have changed what they wanted to say because translating felt too hard. Of those, 42% held back a question, 30% an important detail, 28% a work idea or professional opinion, and 20% humor or a joke.
Companies handle it the same way. Asked how they actually manage language gaps, 27% of leaders rely on assuming people understood enough, 23% assume understanding unless something goes wrong, and 22% say people simply pretend.
This is now a workplace problem as much as a travel one. Asked where they feel most stuck, Americans named work and travel equally, at 29% each.
Most companies are multilingual on paper and English-only in practice
96% of business leaders say real-time multilingual communication is critical or important to their company's growth, but only 21% say their company can support it in live conversation.
65% operate across four or more languages. 13% translate documents only, and 7% have no approach at all.
67% say their company defaults to English always or often, even when not everyone is strongest in it, rising to 83% of the C-suite.
The cost is measurable: 32% have lost or delayed a customer support resolution because of a language misunderstanding, 28% a customer relationship, and 15% an actual deal.
Leaders rate safety instructions and frontline operations as the most dangerous setting for a live misunderstanding (27%), ahead of legal, executive and M&A conversations (20–23%).
Fluency often gets mistaken for ability
71% of Americans say people are judged as less capable because they are less fluent, less polished, or have an accent when speaking English.
67% of business decision makers say companies mistake English fluency for confidence, authority or leadership ability. 79% agree the best English speaker usually has the most influence in global business conversations, rising to 86% of the C-suite.
56% of Americans have watched someone's idea get overlooked, then taken seriously when someone with stronger English repeated it. Of those, 38% saw it happen in a work meeting.
Methodology
The research was conducted by Censuswide between June 23-30, 2026 across two sample groups: 2,000 business decision makers (aged 29+) at US-based global companies with over 500 employees that trade with non-English-speaking countries; and 2,000 US general consumers (aged 18+).Censuswide abides by and employs members of the Market Research Society and follows the MRS code of conduct and ESOMAR principles.
About DeepL
DeepL is a global AI company building the language infrastructure that powers global business"
PR Newswire
Aug 25, 2026
https://www.morningstar.com/news/pr-newswire/20260825ne32557/live-voice-translation-is-the-ai-americans-want-most-ahead-of-email-drafting-and-meeting-notes-new-deepl-research-finds
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"El español predominó en todo el territorio nacional, a pesar de que las lenguas indígenas han resistido durante siglos: Francisco Segovia
agosto 27, 2026
Boletines Institución Luis Fernando Lara Noticias Prensa
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El poeta y traductor participó en el ciclo La educación y las culturas de la lengua, que coordina el lingüista Luis Fernando Lara, miembro de El Colegio Nacional.
En el Aula Mayor de la institución, Segovia dijo que los primeros intérpretes que sirvieron a los conquistadores fueron indios esclavos que verían el trabajo como condición de despojo.
Expuso que, como la labor del poeta, el acto de traducir es un acto de amor que busca compartir lo otro.
Si bien la interpretación de una lengua a otra jugó un papel importante durante la Conquista, los primeros intérpretes aprendieron desde la esclavitud. “Julianillo, Melchorejo, Aguilar y Malintzin aprendieron la segunda lengua, y hasta la tercera, como esclavos. En este caso el bilingüismo no representa una virtud de gente acomodada y culta, sino una condición de la derrota y el despojo”, sostuvo el poeta y traductor Francisco Segovia.
También lexicógrafo, Segovia dictó la conferencia “Las tradiciones de la escritura I. La traducción: escritura en dos lenguas” como parte del ciclo La educación y las culturas de la lengua, que coordina el lingüista Luis Fernando Lara, miembro de El Colegio Nacional.
En el Aula Mayor de la institución, el poeta expuso que traducir de una lengua a otra supone un conocimiento profundo de ambas lenguas y de ambas culturas a las que pertenecen, por lo que resulta necesario comprender en qué consiste ese encuentro de culturas y lenguas, y el valor que tiene para la educación.
En la época de Conquista, explicó, el bilingüismo se dio principalmente entre los pueblos indios. “Hubo unos cuantos españoles, en especial sacerdotes y frailes, que aprendieron alguna lengua americana, pero sigue siendo cierto que la mayoría de los nahuas aprendieron el castellano sin que una mínima parte de los españoles aprendiera el náhuatl, cosa que acaso prefigura el estado actual de la cuestión”.
Segovia recordó el episodio de los marineros españoles Gonzalo Guerrero y Jerónimo de Aguilar, quienes naufragaron en las costas mayas junto con un puñado de otros españoles en 1511. Cuando Cortés atracó en Cozumel, ocho años después, “ambos habían tenido tiempo suficiente para aprender bien la lengua maya, que hasta ese momento sólo había sido traducida al español al balbuciente de dos indios llamados Julianillo y Melchorejo, que habían sido capturados en Cabo Catoche en 1517 y que tras vivir un tiempo en Cuba ahora viajaban con Cortés”.
“Guerrero eligió quedarse al lado de su familia (después de casarse con una princesa maya). En cambio, Aguilar volvió a la compañía de sus antiguos compatriotas y sirvió como intérprete en los primeros años de la conquista, hasta que aprendió el castellano Malintzin, también llamada Malinche, Malinalli o doña Marina. Antes de eso, ella hablaba su lengua materna, el náhuatl, además de la maya que aprendió como esclava de Tabscoob, cacique de Tabasco”.
De esta manera, Cortés se comunicaba con los nahuas mediante dos intérpretes: “Él hablaba en castellano, Guillermo de Aguilar lo traducía al maya y Malintzin del maya al náhuatl, o al revés, si el que hablaba era un nahua. Cuando ella aprendió castellano, los servicios de Aguilar resultaron redundantes y fue despedido como intérprete, aunque no como soldado”.
Además de que la interpretación de una lengua a otra inició en América entre indígenas esclavos, agregó, “el papel de los intérpretes indios era justamente ese: el de intérpretes, más que el de traductores. Aunque queda claro que ambos oficios caben en la gran categoría de la interpretación, aquí se entiende interpretar como traducir de viva voz lo que alguien dice en el momento en que lo dice, en presencia tanto del que habla como del que escucha”.
Traducir, expuso, “significa normalmente trasladar de una lengua a otra un escrito, cosa que puede hacerse en cualquier momento y en ausencia tanto del autor como del lector. En resumen, la traducción se hace a solas y por escrito, mientras que la interpretación se hace en vivo y oralmente. Por eso parece tan apropiado que los españoles llamaran lenguas a sus intérpretes, no sólo porque supieran dos o más lenguas, sino porque la lengua de su boca era su instrumento principal”.
Así, frente al dominio del conquistador, el español también acabó predominando en todo el territorio nacional sobre las lenguas indígenas y, “a pesar de que han resistido durante siglos, no han dejado de menguar”.
Abrazar la tradición propia
Luego de exponer casos donde la traducción resulta falsa, peligrosa o errónea, Francisco Segovia se refirió a la noción que plantea el lingüista Luis Fernando Lara, miembro de El Colegio Nacional, respecto a la sustitución de la noción de norma por la de tradición lingüística, para deducir que, ante todo, “una traducción es una costumbre socialmente valorada”.
De esta manera, “cuando los mexicanos decimos banqueta en vez de acera como los españoles, o vereda como los argentinos, no estamos aplicando una regla que nos obligue a hacerlo, estamos eligiendo abrazar la tradición de nuestro país, donde está mejor decir banqueta que acera”.
Para Segovia, “quien no reflexiona sobre su propia lengua no puede ser un buen traductor, ni un buen corrector de estilo, ni un buen maestro de español. Que la lengua cambie a menudo perpetuando errores no significa que mientras aún se consideren tales puedan permitírselos los escritores, los traductores, correctores, periodistas, publicistas, etcétera”.
Pero advirtió que “no es fácil el oficio de traductor y es poco agradecido. En general, los lectores recuerdan a los autores de los libros que leen, pero no a sus traductores”, a pesar de que existen casos en los que el traductor supera al autor.
“¿Alguien se acuerda de los nombres de quienes tradujeron los primeros libros que leyó? No muchos, ¿verdad? Pero si ya es bastante difícil que los lectores reconozcan la labor de los traductores, resulta casi inaudito que un autor alabe la traducción de una obra suya, aunque se han dado casos”.
Es el caso de El cementerio marino (1920), traducido por Jorge Guillén, de cuya versión Paul Dalery dijo: “me adoro en español”. Un caso similar es el de Marcel Bataillon, quien señaló, a propósito de la traducción de su Erasmo y España (1966): “a quien más debe la segunda edición de este libro es al traductor Antonio Alatorre, quien fue miembro de El Colegio Nacional”.
Según Bataillon, Alatorre no se contentó “con contribuir valiosamente al acopio de datos destinados a poner las notas al día, con mejorar esta obra. Alatorre ha superado al propio autor en conocimiento de su libro”.
En suma, agregó el poeta, “traducir es humano, quizá lo más humano que hay: cruzar la frontera entre una lengua y otra, y entre una cultura y otra. Pero ojo, cruzar la frontera, no quedarse en ella, en esa especie de limbo donde las aguas entran en contacto como el flujo y el reflujo del mar sobre la arena de una playa”.
El traductor, además, “no es sólo un lector cuidadoso, es también un lector interesado, apasionado, deseante” y, como el poeta, también teje una red para atrapar palabras y sentidos: “También el traductor debe tejer su red, pero él sabe de antemano qué tan apretada debe hacerla, pues tiene ante los ojos un original y sabe de qué tamaño habrá de ser su pesca”.
“En cualquier caso, lo sorprendente es que, mirando la pesca que el escritor entrega a los suyos allá, del otro lado de su lengua, a él le parezca que esos peces hacen falta acá, de este lado, y quisiera que los suyos, y quiera que también los suyos también los tengan. Si no literalmente los mismos que el autor pescó en su mar, al menos otros equivalentes a aquellos, pero pescados en este mar de acá, que es su propia lengua”.
Así, para Segovia, traducir es un acto de amor: “El traductor quiere llenar el hueco que la obra de su autor abre como una herida en su propia lengua, en su cultura. En su caso, se ve a las claras que el deseo de llenar el hueco es deseo de palabras, deseo de sentido, pero también deseo del otro, de lo otro, cosa que creo no sentirán jamás las pobres y sensibles computadoras. Pues como decía Platón, ‘sólo el amor llena el hueco’”.
La conferencia “Las tradiciones de la escritura I. La traducción: escritura en dos lenguas” como parte del ciclo “La educación y las culturas, se encuentra disponible
en las plataformas digitales de El Colegio Nacional:
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Correo de contacto: prensa@colnal.mx"
https://colnal.mx/noticias/el-espanol-predomino-en-todo-el-territorio-nacional-a-pesar-de-que-las-lenguas-indigenas-han-resistido-durante-siglos-francisco-segovia/
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"Transius Symposium
"Facilitating Legal and Administrative Communication in Multilingual Settings"
2nd Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Easy and Plain Language in Institutional Contexts
9 October 2026, University of Geneva
Funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation
The demand for accessible communication has grown significantly in recent years, driven by legal mandates, such as Directives (EU) 2019/882 and 2016/2102 in the context of the European Union, and by a broader commitment to inclusivity across public and private sectors worldwide. This has generated, among other needs, an increased demand for texts in Plain Language and Easy Language to serve diverse lay audiences and those with special communication needs. Recent advances in generative artificial intelligence offer promising opportunities to scale up the production of accessible institutional content but also introduce risks — both of which are currently the subject of an increasingly sustained debate.
Building on the “1st Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Easy and Plain Language in Institutional Contexts” (2025), co-located with the 20th Machine Translation Summit held in Geneva, this Symposium aims to continue and deepen this debate, placing a stronger focus on legal and institutional communication. The programme will cover a range of topics related to AI-assisted Plain Language and Easy Language text production, including tool evaluation, prompting strategies, text assessments, implications for the tasks and workflows of drafters and translators, evolving professional competences, and empirical studies on reader reception across diverse cohorts.
This one-day hybrid event brings together research- and practice-based contributions, with the aim of fostering exchange of experience and best practices. It is open to all interested participants, including scholars, practitioners, and students in Translation Studies, Linguistics, Communication and Law.
Local organising committee:
Paolo Canavese, Fernando Prieto Ramos, Annarita Felici
Advisory committee:
Patrick Cadwell, Silvia Hansen-Schirra, Martin Kappus, Chris Maaß, Anna Matamala, Will Noonan, María Isabel Rivas Ginel
Programme
8.45-9.15: Registration
9.15-9.30: Opening
9.30-10.00: Helen Xanthaki (University College London): "Let linguists teach the drafters: easification in legislative practice"
10.00-10.30: Horacio Saggion (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): "Automatic text simplification to facilitate democratic participation of people with language barriers: lessons learned from the iDEM project"
10.30-11.00: Coffee break
11.00-11.30: Valeria Qualatrucci (Centre of Expertise on Easy Language, Swiss Federal Department of Home Affairs): "Producing easy language in the Swiss federal administration: workflows, challenges and AI support"
11.30-12.00: Paolo Canavese, Annarita Felici, Eugenia Portioli & Fernando Prieto Ramos (Transius Centre, University of Geneva): Interactive session
12.00-13.30: Lunch break
13.30-14.00: Giulia Venturi (Institue of Computational Linguistics Pisa, Italy): "Putting the right text into the right reader's hands: opportunities and challenges of controllable text simplification"
14.00-14.30: Silke Gutermuth & Fabian Merkel (Johannes Guthenberg Universität Mainz): "Between lab and AI in user-centered easy language research: looking at a methodological landscape"
14.30-14.45: Short break
14.45-15.15: Jeroen Aspeslagh (European Commission’s Directorate General for Translation): "Making clarity count… when AI is around: editing and clear language at the European Commission"
15.15-15.45: Michael Filhol (Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), France): "Sign Languages, a distinctive case for language generation, recognition and translation"
15.45-16.00: Closing remarks and outlook
Each presentation: 20 min. + 10 min. discussion
Registration
Standard participants Practitioners, students and academics from IAMLADP - UCG network organisations and universities (incl. UNIGE)
On-site*
CHF 30.00
Free
Online
CHF 20.00
*The registration fee includes participation in all sessions of the symposium and the coffee break, but not lunch or accommodation.
Registration will be open from 31 August to 4 October 2026.
Practical information
Venue
The symposium will take place at the Uni Mail building (40, Boulevard du Pont d'Arve. 1205 - Geneva)..."
https://transius.unige.ch/en/conferences-and-seminars/transius-symposia/legal-administrative-communication
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Not Imitation, But Translation: Beyond the Surface of Rebekah Marangon's Antithetical Metaphor
"In legal education, the school activity cannot simply be copied and pasted into a law seminar. Transferred unchanged, even a valuable activity may feel patronising, artificial, or disconnected from the discipline. That is a legitimate concern, but it is an argument for thoughtful adaptation rather than for dismissing the approach altogether. The answer is not imitation, but translation.
Translation begins by asking three questions: what intellectual process sits beneath the activity, where does that process arise in legal learning, and how can the activity be redesigned for the students, subject, and level of study in front of us? The marketplace might, for example, become a client-interview carousel or a legal networking fair. Different groups could examine judgments, statutory provisions, or competing perspectives on a contested issue before deciding what others genuinely need to understand. Students moving between groups might be required not simply to collect information, but to identify tensions between authorities, record points of uncertainty, and return to their original group to construct a reasoned position or advise a client.
The translated activity would retain the research, synthesis, peer explanation, and shared responsibility of the original, while introducing the ambiguity, authority, and contestability that characterise legal reasoning. It might look very different from the school activity that inspired it, but that is not a weakness. What has been transferred is not the activity itself, but its underlying purpose.
The best dining-room-table conversations in my family are rarely about copying exactly what somebody else has done. They are about understanding what made an idea work, identifying what it enabled learners to do, and wondering what it might look like in another classroom. School teaching does not provide ready-made activities that can simply be imported into legal education. It offers something more valuable: an invitation to reconsider what intellectually rigorous teaching can look like."
Rebekah Marangon
August 28th 2026
PS: Not for legal education only
https://blog.oup.com/2026/08/translation-not-imitation-what-legal-educators-can-learn-from-schools/
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AI can translate words, but doesn't bear responsibility, experts say
International Translators' Summit participants stress preserving human ethical judgment while giving translators control over AI tool key
Translators must defend their role not by competing with artificial intelligence (AI) on speed, but by taking responsibility for the cultural and ethical choices embedded in their work, experts said Friday at a conference on literary translation organized by the Literature Translation Institute (LTI) Korea.
The International Translators' Summit brought together Lee Sang-bin, a professor of English interpretation and translation at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies; Korean American literary translator and poet Stine An; and novelist-translator Moon Ji-hyuk.
The discussion wasn't about whether AI can produce fluent translation. Instead, the panelists focused on who should bear responsibility for a translation, how translators should use AI and what kind of work must remain human-led.
Lee argued that translation is not simply the transfer of meaning from one language to another.
“I want to say that translation is not the work of copying meaning, but an act of responding to the words of the other,” the professor said, adding that a translator can never completely know an author or source text. However, he said, the translator must still answer the call through choice of words, tone, rhythm and cultural framing, which distinguishes human translation from AI-generated output.
“AI does not feel uncomfortable after reading a source text. It does not feel guilty about choosing a particular word, nor can it step forward and take responsibility for the result,” he said.
Lee said human translators’ apparent inefficiency should be understood as a necessary ethical interval rather than a weakness. “This time of hesitation is the time in which responsibility takes concrete form,” he said.
He proposed a future in which technological translation, oriented toward efficiency, automation and scale, coexists with ethical translation, which centers on response, responsibility and a relationship with the author or text.
An offered a more pragmatic account of how AI can support translators without taking over their creative work. She stressed that literary translators do much more than produce a finished text: They organize readings, communicate with publishers and institutions, apply for grants, promote writers and build communities across languages.
She described AI as a useful tool for such work — including drafting emails, preparing event materials and summarizing recordings — particularly as a translator manages multiple projects and professional commitments. AI, in that sense, can function as an assistant that frees up time for the more demanding work of translating literature and creating human connections, she said.
However, An cautioned against machine-translation post-editing models that make translators responsible for correcting text they did not create. Instead, she called for a human-centered approach in which translators retain control over the goals, tools and final decisions of a project.
Moon framed the speakers’ ideas as two paths toward the same decision: AI is disruptive not only because it is faster and cheaper, but because it exposes how narrowly translation has been defined.
“Human translation’s value is not in perfection, but in being able to explain why one translated something in a way and bear the consequences of that choice,” Moon said. “A good translation is not about producing the correct answer. It is closer to choosing one responsible failure among countless impossible choices.”
He said translators should retain three key roles in an AI-assisted future: final authority over major interpretive and ethical decisions, responsibility for relationship among authors, readers, publishers and communities, and awareness of translation’s inevitable limits.
The summit runs through Saturday and was organized to mark LTI Korea’s 30th anniversary."
Lee Hae-rin
Aug 28, 2026
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/amp/lifestyle/books/20260828/ai-can-translate-words-but-doesnt-bear-responsibility-experts-say
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"“It's a complete retranslation. It's not a revision of the old version,” Wilson told The Associated Press during a recent Zoom interview from her home in Philadelphia, where she is a professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania. “I'm about halfway through.”
Regarded as the first major English-language translation of Homer’s epic by a woman, her book was already a bestseller and a culture-wars flashpoint before the release of Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster adaptation. But she says her translation methods have become more sophisticated and that enough time has passed for her to see some flaws in her work — as an example, she overused the word “slave” when ancient Greek had different terms for different categories of enslaved people. The new edition will be longer, she says, and will better reflect the differing social worlds of Homer’s poem.
Fiction writers and poets, from Henry James to Walt Whitman, have revised and reissued early works. But translators rarely start over on a full-length text — especially not within a decade of the original work's completion, and not when the translation has had the success of Wilson's “Odyssey.”
“I can’t really come up with a previous example of this situation,” says Kate Deimling, who oversees the literary division of the American Translators Association. “It’s not unheard of for translators to go back and make some corrections or edits in subsequent editions, but that’s not the same as a retranslation.”
Asked how her publisher responded, Wilson says her decision was “very controversial.” She says she’s “very much aware” that having two recent editions by the same translator would be a challenge for teachers, and hopes they won’t “curse” her name. Her editor at Liveright Publishing, Peter Simon, said in a statement that since she “has poured so much of her life and scholarship into ‘The Odyssey’ ... her new approach is bound to be thrilling.”
Fame was of prime importance to the ancient Greeks, and Wilson is the rare classical scholar who has firsthand knowledge of a public life. Wilson's 2017 translation was praised by many critics for making “The Odyssey” feel more modern and accessible, but also faced criticism online for making the story “woke.” Her “Odyssey” has now sold more than a million copies, and Wilson has again become a reason to argue.
Nolan had cited her translation and its opening sentence, “Tell me about a complicated man,” as inspiration for his epic film. Wilson, who says she will “probably” leave the line unchanged in the next edition, did not return his admiration. In interviews with the AP and other media outlets, and in an assessment for the London Review of Books, she called the movie grandiose and superficial, and at times incoherent.
Her reaction to the film has been extensively — even obsessively — defended and denounced, including by Joyce Carol Oates, who faulted her “haughty superiority.” Nolan has yet to respond directly, although, while being interviewed by podcaster Zhong Shu, he did speak out against “amateur criticism” for lacking the cinematic background essential for understanding the language of movies.
Wilson's current prominence aligns with the release of her new collection of essays, conceived well before Nolan's movie came out: “Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea,” a book that arrives Tuesday with blurbs from Salman Rushdie and “Song of Achilles” novelist Madeline Miller. It features a long section on translating “The Odyssey,” with tough assessments of modern editions by Daniel Mendelsohn and the late Robert Fagles. Other chapters take on the “slut-shaming” of Helen of Troy, offer tribute to the Roman poet Catullus and point to how some of the most famous words ever spoken by Robert F. Kennedy — his quoting Aeschylus in the aftermath of the Rev. Martin Luther King's assassination — echoed author Edith Hamilton's mistranslation.
During her interview, Wilson also discussed her feelings about celebrity, her disdain for Rick Riordan's “Percy Jackson” books (Riordan, through a spokesperson at Penguin Random House, declined to comment) and her renewed appreciation for Stoic philosophy."
https://abcnews.com/Entertainment/wireStory/emily-wilsons-odyssey-cultural-flashpoint-now-shes-retranslating-136024176
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"August 27, 2026
The Vatican's Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments finalized Aug. 4 English and Spanish translations of the Mass "for the care of creation," a new set of prayers and texts the Vatican added to the Roman Missal in June 2025.
The completion of the translations proved providential for the Seattle Archdiocese, which plans to use the new texts (known as a formulary) at a Mass Sept. 2 celebrated by Archbishop Paul Etienne at St. James Cathedral to open its celebration of the Season of Creation. The monthlong period of prayer and actions for God's creation runs from Sept. 1, the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, to Oct. 4, the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi.
Related: What is the Season of Creation?
"The timing is ideal to be able to celebrate it when it's new and fresh and just start a new tradition, I guess, to do this each year," said Corinna Laughlin, the cathedral's pastoral assistant for liturgy and consultant for the archdiocese's liturgy office.
The Mass for creation joins 17 other "civil needs" formularies in the Roman Missal, among others for particular needs and other circumstances. Several touch on environment-related themes, such as times of harvest and famine along with prayers for good weather.
Vatican officials said its development was in response to requests for a liturgical means to celebrate the messages of Pope Francis' 2015 encyclical, "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home." In that papal teaching document, Francis bemoaned the numerous ecological threats facing the planet, including climate change and biodiversity loss, and called on Christians to act.
Tim Hansen carries a statue of an angel retrieved from the debris as his wife, Shelly, and Nancy Fuller survey their destroyed home in Spokane, Wash., Aug. 3, 2026, after a wildfire swept through the neighborhood. (OSV News/Reuters/David Ryder)
"At this time it is evident that the work of creation is seriously threatened because of the irresponsible use and abuse of the goods God has endowed to our care," Cardinal Arthur Roche, prefect of the divine worship dicastery, wrote in the decree issuing the new formulary.
The first iteration of the Mass for creation was celebrated in July 2025 by Leo at the Borgo Laudato Si' ecology project in Castel Gandolfo outside Rome. He is set to do so again on Sept. 1. But before it could be used in most churches in the U.S., it first needed to be translated from Latin.
Along with the exemplar originale Latin text, the Vatican released working translations to assist national bishops' conferences in preparing them for use in their native languages. The English translation was led by the International Commission on English in the Liturgy, which includes the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. In June, the U.S. bishops' unanimously approved the translation, which were then sent back to Rome for final confirmation.
A similar process unfolded for the Spanish translation, which was undertaken through a collaboration by the U.S. bishops' conference and the Mexican Episcopal Conference.
Fr. Dustin Dought, executive director of the U.S. bishops' Secretariat of Divine Worship, said the procedure for approving adaptations of liturgical texts was outlined in Francis' 2017 motu proprio ("on his own initiative") Magnum Principium. That document gave bishop conferences responsibility for translating into local languages.
"His insight there was that the conference of bishops is closest to the culture and language that it serves," Dought said.
The new formulary will be included in future editions of the Catholic Lectionary for Mass. In the meantime, the U.S. bishops' conference has posted translations for both the English and Spanish versions of the Mass for the care of creation on its website, as well as bulletin inserts.
Along with creation-themed prayers, the formulary suggests readings for the Liturgy of the Word, including passages from Matthew's Gospel where Jesus calms the sea and where he instructs his disciples to learn from the birds in the air and flowers in the field to trust in God's providence.
Before the Mass for creation was issued, some Catholic churches prepared ecological liturgies at various times, even at the occasion of the first Earth Day in 1970. The practice has grown in the past decade, including with "Green Masses," following Francis' invitation for Catholics to join fellow Christians in marking the Season of Creation.
Having a Mass for the care of creation formally added to the Roman Missal is a major step, said Jesuit Fr. James Hug, who for years has developed liturgical resources for the Season of Creation.
"It's official, and that makes it legitimate to use," he said, calling the prayers "lovely" and affirming the Christian mission to care for the world God has created.
That stamp of approval from the Vatican is important, Hug added, for many priests who may have been hesitant to use other creation-centered liturgical resources in the past, whether ones he prepared or from groups like the Catholic Climate Covenant or Laudato Si' Movement.
"It says that this is the concern of the whole church," Laughlin said. "This isn't just a thing we pray about but a really important universal concern."
At Seattle's St. James Cathedral, the new formulary will be used at the Mass with the archbishop as well as a weekend Mass later in the month. Other parishes have also expressed an interest in planning their own liturgies for creation.
Related: The new Mass 'for the care of creation' is a mixed bag
Dought said his office has received many inquiries about when the Mass for the care of creation would be available.
Preparations are already in the works in at least a half-dozen dioceses to celebrate the Mass for the care of creation. That includes the St. Paul-Minneapolis Archdiocese, where Archbishop Bernard Hebda will be the lead celebrant Sept. 6 at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Lake St Croix Beach, situated along the St. Croix River in Minnesota.
School Sister of Notre Dame Kathleen Storms, who too for decades has developed creation prayer services, is eagerly anticipating the first use of the new formulary in the Twin Cities region.
Sr. Kathleen Storms shows tomatoes grown in a raised garden bed made by her brother with recycled cedar planks at her apartment in West St. Paul, Minn., Aug. 17, 2022. (CNS/The Catholic Spirit/Dave Hrbacek)
"Even with everything we've seen just this summer — with the fires and the floods and the huge hurricanes and all of the rest — sometimes there is no connection between what's going on there and what the church teaches about care for creation," she said.
Storms hopes the new Mass for creation will lead more priests to uplift Catholic social teaching on creation and to preach on environmental concerns. How and when a formulary is used is mostly left to the discretion of the pastor, who weighs it against other feast days and holy dates on the liturgical calendar.
Catholics who have been eagerly anticipating the new formulary see in it the potential to expand awareness of Laudato Si' and other church teachings on creation, as well as cultivate the ecological conversion both Leo and Francis have said is essential to spur the level of collective action needed to address crises like climate change and deforestation.
"The liturgy does something that a lecture can't do. The liturgy does something that a catechism can't do," Dought said.
Laughlin, the liturgical consultant in the Seattle Archdiocese, turned to the church adage "Lex orandi, lex credendi" — how we pray expresses what we believe.
"What we lift up at Mass really shapes our understanding of what church teaching is, even without going to other documents. ... It tells us this is part of what we believe. This is significant enough and substantial enough that this is part of the Mass, which is source and summit.
"So I think planting the seeds there will make a difference, because obviously we need to be praying about this.""
https://www.ncronline.org/news/mass-care-creation-ready-us-churches-after-vatican-finalizes-translations
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"Intron Voice AI a déployé Sahara v2.5, une plateforme d’intelligence artificielle vocale capable de prendre en charge 63 langues africaines. Le système intègre le tout premier modèle de reconnaissance automatique de la parole (ASR) trilingue du continent, traitant simultanément le kinyarwanda, l’anglais et le français. Cette mise à jour logicielle majeure permet de gérer de manière fluide le « code-switching » (mélange de langues) sur 12 paires de langues différentes, ouvrant la voie à des applications de synthèse vocale parfaitement adaptées aux usages locaux..."
https://afriqueitnews.com/intelligence-artificielle-ia/ia-vocale-intron-brise-la-barriere-de-la-langue-avec-sahara-v2-5/
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"The Ministry of Culture is launching a call for proposals under the 2027 Programme for the Translation and Publication of National Literature Abroad, funded from the state budget. Foreign publishers interested in participating may submit their applications until 26 October 2026.
Under the Programme, translation and publishing projects featuring works by authors who are citizens of the Republic of Moldova may receive funding. Works written in Romanian are eligible, while, in the case of national minorities in the Republic of Moldova, works written in their respective languages may also be considered.
Priority will be given to contemporary literature and to works by authors who have received the European Union Prize for Literature, the National Prize of the Republic of Moldova, the Ministry of Culture Prize, awards granted by the Writers’ Union of Romania and the Writers’ Union of Moldova, as well as awards presented by cultural journals in Romania and the Republic of Moldova.
Foreign publishers may select works by Moldovan authors both from the Indicative List of Works by Moldovan Authors Recommended for Translation Abroad, published in the electronic catalogue of the Ministry of Culture, and from books published in Romanian, at their own discretion.
The following book categories are eligible for funding: fiction, including prose, poetry and drama; non-fiction, including reportage, memoirs, diaries, biographies and autobiographies, and essays; history books, particularly those addressing the history of Bessarabia; albums; books for children and young adults; graphic novels and comics; as well as anthologies of poetry, prose and drama.
Both printed books and e-books are eligible for funding. The maximum amount of funding available for a translation project is MDL 300,000. An eligible publisher may receive funding only once during a budgetary year, and a project may include no more than five book titles.
The funding application must include:
the funding application/standard application form, in accordance with the Regulation;
a copy of the letter of intent concluded with the copyright holder;
a copy of the letter of intent concluded with the translator;
the translator’s CV;
a copy of the certificate of registration or other documents confirming the applicant’s legal status;
a report on the applicant’s publications over the past two years;
the applicant’s editorial plan for the following year;
the project’s financial calculation sheet/budget;
a declaration on the applicant’s own financial contribution, amounting to at least 30% of the project’s total budget;
a strategy for the translation, publication, distribution and promotion of the translated and published works abroad.
Applications may be submitted in hard copy to the Ministry of Culture, 21 Nicolae Iorga Street, MD-2012, Chișinău, or electronically to cancelaria@mc.gov.md .
The application must be prepared in Times New Roman, size 12, in PDF format, and all documents must be included in a single archive file.
Projects that do not meet the participation requirements will not be considered.
The Regulation on the mechanism for financing the translation and publication of national literature abroad from the state budget is available here.
For further information regarding the submission of applications and the participation requirements, please contact the responsible representative by telephone at 022 823 825 or by email at olga.zimbriean@mc.gov.md ."
https://mc.gov.md/ro/content/ministry-culture-launches-call-proposals-2027-programme-translation-and-publication-national
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The program has more than 50 languages in its database and will allow officers to interact with the public in the language of their choice.
"Winnipeg police adding AI translation tool to body-worn cameras
Program has dozens of languages in database, officers hope it will improve communication with public
Karen Pauls · CBC News · Posted: Aug 26, 2026 6:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: August 26
Winnipeg police are adding an artificial intelligence translation tool to the body-worn cameras officers are currently testing.
The program has more than 50 languages in its database and will allow officers to interact with the public in the language of their choice.
"If an officer should come across somebody and not even recognize the language that they're speaking, they simply have to push one small button, and the device will hear and recognize that language and then translate it to English," said George Labossière, deputy chief of operations with the Winnipeg Police Service.
"The officer can then answer back in English — or French, if they're French-speaking. And it'll translate into the language of that individual they're dealing with."
The police service has not yet activated the translation feature. About 40 officers are currently using the cameras as a pilot project, and they're being trained on the new translation program. The service hopes to launch it by Friday.
Labossière hopes the tool will help improve communication with the public.
"I think it will provide many people … the opportunity to express themselves in their home native language," he said. "And the reason I think that's important is because when you're dealing with [an] emergency situation, the emotions are high. It might be difficult to articulate what you want to say. To let them say it in their native tongue is so much easier."
A Toronto Police Service officer demonstrates body-worn cameras made by Axon Enterprise, Inc. They have become mandatory for police services across Canada, and some are now incorporating AI translation programs. (Evan Mitsui/CBC)
Michael Weinrath, professor emeritus at the University of Winnipeg's criminal justice department, said the technology could help police with de-escalation.
"There's some potential to eliminate serious incidents and perhaps even deaths in some situations," he said.
Weinrath said AI translation could also assist police investigations, as long as the information is carefully verified.
40 police officers in Winnipeg to start wearing body cams
Calgary police body cams to translate dozens of languages using AI
That could be particularly important in the moments immediately after an incident, when someone's recollection of events is more accurate, he said.
Testing so far has produced translation accuracy rates in the low-to-mid 90 per cent range, but Labossière said officers will still be expected to verify important information. The Calgary Police Service also launched the program earlier this year.
"Winnipeg, Canada [have] become increasingly diverse," Weinrath said. "It seems like a slam dunk that you would be able to improve your communication with citizens through the use of this technology."
Critics of the use of AI by police say the public has a right to know when technology such as this is being used.
"We're moving into an era where technology and surveillance is occurring in ways that legislators, courts and others never contemplated," said Shakir Rahim, director of the criminal justice program for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.
"When these new technologies are being deployed, it's critically important that they're evaluated for Charter compliance, and also that the public knows what is going on, and so can provide input into their rollout."
Shakir Rahim, a lawyer working with the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, worries there's not enough oversight and accountability over the use of artificial intelligence by police. (Sarah MacMillan/CBC)
The Winnipeg Police Service has set up an AI committee with experts from the University of Manitoba who are providing advice and oversight, Labossière said.
"When it comes to serving the needs of the public, I think it's important that we do use these tools, but not in a way to infringe on people's rights and privacies," he said.
For example, the service is taking steps to protect the video captured by the cameras. It's using AI to automatically redact sensitive information captured on screens.
"If I happen to be talking to you and your cellphone's out, and my camera picks it up, it won't have that information on your phone for others to see," Labossière said.
The same technology can cover information displayed on computers and tablets — something Labossière says is particularly important when officers are working in hospitals, workplaces or other settings where sensitive information might be visible.
Video recordings are stored securely on cloud technology, and access is restricted, although they can be provided to the Crown through disclosure.
The service's body-camera pilot is scheduled to run until late December. Winnipeggers will have a chance to weigh in on the cameras next month, when the police service opens a survey.
"It gives the public an opportunity to voice any concerns they might have or give us any feedback … that they may want to share with police about privacy and their rights," Labossière said."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/artificial-intelligence-translation-police-cameras-9.7320248
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Romm’s book translates fragments from ancient Greek literature and sorts them into themes about life lessons on love, politics, and more. Romm’s translation is the first time they have been translated into English
"Romm’s book, which was reviewed earlier this year in the Wall Street Journal, translates fragments from ancient Greek literature and sorts them into themes about life lessons on love, politics, and more. These fragments come from the writings of Stobaeus, a fifth-century man who compiled lines from Classical writing to instruct his son; Romm’s translation is the first time they have been translated into English. “There is hardly anything more powerful or more beautiful than a great line,” writes Dustin Bass for the Epoch Times. “Romm’s new book gifts the reader these textual forms in all their beauty and wisdom.”
Romm, whose previous books have been reviewed in the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, also recently reviewed Alexander: God, King, Man by Edmund Richardson for the Times Literary Supplement. He teaches in Bard’s Classical Studies Program, which seeks to understand the languages, literatures, histories, and visual and material cultures of the premodern Mediterranean world. The program approaches these ancient societies from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including linguistics, art history, archaeology, anthropology, and philosophy, while also considering the long and complex legacies of ancient Greece and Rome in art, language, politics, and culture from antiquity to the present day.
Post Date: 08-26-2026
https://www.bard.edu/news/professor-james-romms-translation-of-greek-fragments-reviewed-in-the-epoch-times-2026-08-26
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Provide financial assistance to professional publishers that want to translate eligible works originally published in German-speaking countries into another language
"Deadline: 15-Sep-2026
The Goethe-Institut Translation Funding Programme supports professional publishers worldwide in translating contemporary German-language literature and selected non-fiction into other languages. Grants typically cover 40–60% of eligible translation costs, up to €8,000 per book, helping German-language authors reach international readers...
The programme provides financial assistance to professional publishers that want to translate eligible works originally published in German-speaking countries into another language.
The initiative is particularly interested in contemporary German-language authors and works from regions or languages where German literature has previously received limited translation exposure..."
https://www2.fundsforngos.org/individuals/request-for-applications-translation-funding-programme/
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"La Corée du Sud a approuvé un prêt concessionnel de 170 millions de dollars pour financer la création en Tanzanie d’un institut consacré à l’intelligence artificielle et aux technologies numériques. L’établissement doit proposer des formations en IA, robotique, analyse de données et Internet des objets, avec un campus, des laboratoires et des infrastructures numériques dédiés.
Le financement provient de l’EDCF, le fonds sud-coréen de coopération économique avec les pays en développement. Le projet s’inscrit dans la stratégie sud-coréenne K-AI Package, dévoilée en juillet, qui associe développement des compétences, infrastructures numériques, centres de données et solutions d’intelligence artificielle dans les pays partenaires.
Pour la Tanzanie, l’intérêt est de disposer d’une infrastructure de formation spécialisée alors que les compétences constituent l’un des principaux freins au développement des usages avancés de l’IA sur le continent. L’institut doit également contribuer à structurer un écosystème local autour de technologies encore peu maîtrisées à grande échelle, notamment la robotique et l’analyse de données.
L’opération révèle aussi une évolution de la coopération technologique entre la Corée du Sud et l’Afrique. Séoul ne cherche plus seulement à exporter des équipements ou des services : avec le K-AI Package, il propose un modèle combinant financement, infrastructures, formation et technologies sud-coréennes. La Tanzanie constitue ainsi l’un des premiers terrains d’application de cette stratégie africaine."
https://afriqueitnews.com/intelligence-artificielle-ia/seoul-investit-170-millions-dans-formation-lia-tanzanie/
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Bien loin l’époque où on pouvait lire, jusque sur les murs des écoles, cette directive académique : « Il est interdit de parler flamand » !
Formation au flamand occidental accessible à tous : étudiants, salariés et amateurs de cette langue...
"À partir du 28 septembre, le Centre de langues de l’Université de Lille proposera une formation au flamand occidental. Elle est accessible à tous : étudiants, salariés et amateurs de cette langue...
Elle semble bien loin l’époque où on pouvait lire, jusque sur les murs des écoles, cette directive académique : « Il est interdit de parler flamand »..."
Par Ghislain Duhot (Correspondant Local de Presse)
Publié: 20 Août 2026
https://www.lavoixdunord.fr/1730367/article/2026-08-20/partir-de-septembre-le-flamand-sera-enseigne-l-universite-de-lille
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Google is reportedly testing a new ‘Listening area’ mode for Google Live Translate on Android XR, something that sounds like a headlining feature for the company’s upcoming fleet of smart glasses.
Google has always said it’s bringing real-time translations to its Android XR, so no surprise there, as the company promises its slate of smart glasses will serve up both translated audio matching the tone and pitch of the speaker’s voice as well as the ability to translate text from things like menus and signs.
Now, digging into the 10.32.66 version of the Google Translate app, Android Authority has discovered Google Live Translate is reportedly being developed to offer two distinct listening modes: ‘Front only’, which translates speech directly in front of the wearer for one-on-one conversations, and ‘Surrounding area’, which translates speech throughout the nearby area, potentially using the glasses’ full microphone array.
Granted, the feature was found in apk code, which means there’s no guarantee it will ship. It does however seem to fit into Google’s broader effort to expand Android XR ahead of upcoming smart glasses, which thus far include a variety of frames shipping this fall from Gentle Monster and Warby Parker. Additionally, frames from Gucci parent company Kering are also reportedly in development.
Considering Google’s strength in live translation, it’s a good bet the company will be looking to pack in every bit of functionality as it seeks to compete with Meta’s fleet of smart glasses, which also feature a live translation feature.
Notably, live translation on Meta’s smart glasses is more akin to the ‘Front only’ one-on-one interactions described above, which work by serving up translated speech to the user through the glasses’ open-ear speakers as the other participant can see translated transcript on a user’s smartphone."
Google Reportedly Working on New Live Translation Feature for Android XR | Road to VR
Scott Hayden
August 26, 2026 https://roadtovr.com/google-live-translation-android-xr-feature/
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ENCO to Feature Captioning, Translation, AI Tools at IBC2026
The company will also demo its automation and virtual production offerings
"ENCO will demonstrate five areas at IBC 2026 in Amsterdam: captioning, translation, AI production tools, automation and virtual production.
At the forthcoming IBC Show in Amsterdam, ENCO will unveil its latest products that it said help media organizations achieve more with fewer resources.
The company is highlighting five areas: captioning, translation, AI production tools, automation and virtual production.
September’s show will mark the European debut of ENCO’s enSpeak real-time voice solution. It will also showcase new AI tools for TV and radio, while its Qimera Virtual Production offering will make its IBC debut.
“Together, ENCO’s IBC showcase reflects an expanding technology ecosystem designed to make sophisticated broadcast workflows easier to deploy, operate and scale,” a release said.
For captioning, ENCO will demonstrate its enCaption suite, with an emphasis on its enCaption Sierra platform.
Sierra offers on-premises and cloud deployment with improvements in language support and accuracy, the company said. ENCO will also demonstrate its Raptor cloud captioning encoder, which the company said is designed for IP and cloud-based broadcast setups.
ENCO will also feature its enTranslate, which takes live captions and turns them into multilingual text translations. Its enSpeak, meanwhile, offers low-latency voice translation that the company describes as natural sounding.
The company will also preview an AI-based video solution that identifies and extracts segments from long-form programming for repurposing across digital and social media platforms. It will also feature SPECai, its AI-based radio advertising platform for producing commercials, designed to assist in meetings with potential advertising buyers.
It will also demonstrate aiTrack, its cloud-based platform for generating, localizing and scheduling AI-based audio content for radio.
ENCO will also return to IBC with its DAD radio automation system, along with its VDESK system for visual radio and video production applications."
By Nick Langan ⋅
August 25, 2026
https://www.radioworld.com/tech-and-gear/products/enco-to-feature-captioning-translation-ai-tools-at-ibc2026
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Inside Cal Poly Humboldt’s Center for Translation & Interpretation
When families... hear their first language spoken clearly and confidently, the impact is immediate. What might otherwise feel inaccessible becomes welcoming and personal
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"Launched in 2019, the Center operates at the intersection of experiential learning for students, community service, and institutional transformation. Its work includes live interpretation at major University events like fall and spring commencement, translation of essential materials, and hands-on student learning embedded in real-world contexts.
Partnership is central to the Center’s approach. It collaborates closely with Cal Poly Humboldt’s Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (ODEI), as well as community organizations and events like El Centro del Pueblo and the Latino Film Festival. These collaborations highlight the Center’s purpose to serve students and families in meaningful, culturally responsive ways and elevate Cal Poly Humboldt's commitments as a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI). Latinx students make up approximately 30% of the student body.
The Center has recently finished an ambitious new project translating fact sheets into Spanish for all 87 of the University’s academic programs. These materials, often a first point of contact for prospective students and their families, play a crucial role in college access. By making them available in Spanish, the Center is helping more families engage with academic offerings, understand pathways, and support their students’ decisions.
“Language isn’t something students should feel they have to leave behind when they come to University,” says Center Director Agustín Amaro. “Maintaining and developing their first language is a strength that connects them to their communities, families, and futures. Our goal is to create spaces where that knowledge is valued and cultivated.”
That philosophy shapes the Center’s role in teaching and learning. Housed within the Department of Applied Humanities, the Center is closely integrated into the curriculum. Students engage with foundational principles of translation and interpretation like accuracy, ethics, and cultural nuance, and then apply those skills in real-world settings.
This experiential approach will expand further with the launch of a new minor in Spanish Healthcare Interpretation - the first of its kind in the CSU system. The Center will play a key role in that program, helping prepare students to work in medical and clinical settings where clear, accurate communication can directly impact care and outcomes. As demand grows for trained interpreters in healthcare, the program positions students for meaningful careers while addressing a critical statewide need.
The Center’s influence extends well beyond campus. It regularly provides pro bono translation and interpretation services to local organizations, including the Humboldt County Office of Education, the City of Arcata, and the City of Eureka. These partnerships reinforce the University’s role as a regional resource, supporting communication and access in public institutions that serve diverse communities."
Aug 25, 2026
CAHSS
https://now.humboldt.edu/news/bridging-languages-expanding-access-inside-cal-poly-humboldts-center-translation
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Translation is a mutation of language, but not direct replication; something happens in the process that shifts the direction of the ideas
"Along with her novels, Vlady Kociancich worked on a translation of Joseph Conrad’s The End of the Tether, which according to her obituary by Daniel Gigena in La Nación, “había sido muy elogiada” (was highly praised). This translation is present in The Eighth Wonder, explicitly given that the narrator is working on a translation of this book, as well as in more hidden forms.
Alberto Paradella, the lawyer-turned-writer-turned-translator-turned-journalist-turned-scriptwriter at one point refers to the journey between the Spanish and English versions of the text he is working on as a “double itinerary”; the metaphor of the journey as a bidirectional translation, where the very process of moving alters the elements in movement, carries through the book in many ways. In the novel, Paradella cannot seem to finish the translation, due to distractions, heartbreaks, travels, and misplacements of the manuscript. In “real life,” Kociancich did finish the translation, which she worked on at the same time as she wrote The Eighth Wonder, and which was published as Con la soga al cuello by Emecé in an edition with a noose on the cover, later reprinted in an edition by Hyspamérica together with Sergio Pitol’s translation of El corazón de las tinieblas (Heart of Darkness) and a prologue by Jorge Luis Borges.
There are multiple Spanish translations of The End of the Tether—En las últimas, Situación límite, El cabo de la cuerda—but Kociancich’s title Con la soga al cuello, which can be more literally translated as With the Rope Around the Neck, is my favorite. It slightly shifts Conrad’s title, just as Borges’ title Otra vuelta de tuerca (Another Turn of the Screw) gave a further swivel to the novella by Henry James.
Which makes me think: maybe Paradella did finish his translation. The entirety of The Eighth Wonder could be read as Kociancich’s translation of Conrad’s The End of the Tether taken to its extreme, where the translator has entered so deeply into the book that what she translates are not just words, phrases, and ideas, but scenes and atmospheres, so that the book journeys from the colonial world of Singapore to the contemporary world of Buenos Aires. This is something different from “rewriting,” The dizzying movements in The End of the Tether across land and sea, from the English boardinghouse to the Malaysian coastline, with stops at temporary ports and the only home one’s boat, are mirrored in the Argentine travel journalist’s movements from Villa del Parque to the Berlin metropolis, passing through airports with only books and dreams as one’s home. Transition and movement become the only constant, until it becomes impossible to return or even locate home.
There is disquiet in the absorption that translation requires, the way the self enters another world at the possible expense of the current one.
An endless journey, a trip one cannot escape, which might be a synonym for nightmare...
Language travels and shifts through time just like the characters in the book. And for those attentive to them, these shifts can be as world-configuring as external events..."
Via Seven Stories Press
Jessica Sequeira
August 26, 2026
https://lithub.com/translation-as-a-journey-jessica-sequeira-on-vlady-kociancichs-the-eighth-wonder/
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"How AI is Turning Accessibility into a Customer Experience Advantage
26 August 2026
Sarah Backhouse
For years, organisations have expected people to learn their language. Whether it’s council terminology, healthcare jargon, financial services language, or internal company labels, users are expected to know what they’re looking for before they start searching.
Websites are typically structured around departments and processes, rather than the way people naturally think.
Most people arrive at a website with a question, not a category. They don’t know which department owns the answer or the organisation’s terminology. They simply want information quickly and easily, using their own words. Yet many digital experiences still place the burden on the user. If they get the wrong search term, they need to navigate multiple pages, try different phrases, or abandon their search altogether.
As digital becomes the primary channel for customer interaction, the gap is becoming costly and hard to ignore.
Expectations have shifted too. Conversational AI has conditioned people to expect digital experiences to work in the same way they communicate. They want to ask questions naturally, use voice input, and receive direct answers. They don’t need to understand how an organisation is structured behind the scenes.
This shift presents a significant opportunity, particularly when it comes to accessibility and digital inclusion.
Moving beyond compliance
Accessibility has traditionally been viewed as a compliance issue. Organisations have rightly invested significant effort in meeting standards and making digital services available to as many people as possible. That work remains important, but it has a ceiling. Today, accessibility is becoming part of the overall experience people have with an organisation. A service can meet every technical standard and still be practically unusable, because the terminology is opaque, the journey is convoluted, or the search requires insider knowledge to operate.
Digital inclusion addresses what compliance misses. A non-English speaker, someone who finds typing difficult, a user unfamiliar with industry jargon, or someone lacking confidence to navigate complex digital journeys.
Different scenarios, with the same results. People cannot find what they need, and organisations fail to serve them effectively.
Why AI changes the conversation
Much of the discussion around AI focuses on productivity gains, automation, and efficiency.
Less discussed is AI’s potential to make information genuinely accessible to more people. Instead of expecting users to think like organisations, organisations can use AI to start responding to the way people naturally communicate. Someone can ask a question in their own language and receive a relevant answer without having to understand the structure sitting behind the website.
Conversational search, natural language processing, voice interaction, and real-time translation allow users to engage with digital services in a way that feels natural to them, rather than a list of links that assumes they already know where to look.
Traditional keyword search relied on users to guess the right phrase, understand organisational structure, and refine their searches until they find something that works.
AI-powered search, on the other hand, interprets intent and context. The practical difference is significant. Instead of asking people to search across multiple pages or systems, AI can bring trusted information together and present a single, relevant answer.
Digital inclusion by design
The organisations getting this right treat digital inclusion as a foundational design decision rather than a retrofit. That means considering there is no single user journey that works for everyone and building accordingly.
For example, in organisations serving increasingly diverse communities and customer bases, language can be as much of a barrier as accessibility. AI-powered experiences can reduce that barrier by allowing people to ask questions in their preferred language and receive answers they understand.
Voice interaction is another way of improving inclusion, with improvements rarely confined to the group they were designed for. It helps users with physical difficulties such as visual impairments, as well as busy people on mobile phones or with literacy or learning difficulties. Another group to benefit is the elderly, or those less confident with digital devices, as they often find speaking a request quicker than typing. Meanwhile, real-time translation supports non-native speakers but also improves access for international customers. Conversational search helps users unfamiliar with jargon, whilst creating a faster experience for everyone else.
This is why digital inclusion should no longer be viewed as a niche concern. For many industries, including the public sector, accessibility has become a legal requirement, with guidelines becoming more prominent in others. Ultimately, it is becoming central to the way organisations design modern customer experiences, whilst also helping them make better use of their resources.
As Simon Fletcher, Chief Executive at Lichfield District Council, explains, “By introducing AI-driven search, we’re able to deliver tailored, accurate answers, making it easier for residents to get the help they need, quickly and efficiently.
“Our key aim is to ensure those customers who are happy to self-serve can find what they need quickly and remain online, without the need to phone us, leaving us more time to provide tailored support to customers who need extra help.”
Designing around people, not processes
The next step for customer service organisations: make digital services work better for the people using them. Reducing friction and lowering the barrier to finding information means a more effective experience for a broader population, not just those with accessibility needs.
In a world where customer experience and digital inclusion are becoming increasingly connected, AI offers organisations the opportunity to rethink how people access information and services. Those that use it to make interactions simpler, more intuitive, and more inclusive are likely to see the greatest value.
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Liberty Converse is the next-generation, AI-powered contact centre solution that redefines how businesses engage with their customers. The cloud-native platform extends its robust contact centre software capabilities to harness the power of intelligent process automation and rapid application development, setting Netcall apart in the competitive landscape.
Liberty Converse is part of Netcall’s Liberty platform which provides cut-through process automation and communications solutions, helping organisations to achieve their business goals faster in a rapidly changing world. Liberty offers user-friendly, AI-driven tools to create business applications that automate processes, streamline workflows and enhance both customer and employee experiences."
https://contact-centres.com/how-ai-is-turning-accessibility-into-a-customer-experience-advantage/
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"VerbumSDK On-Prem / Edge - OneMeta's translation and transcription architecture can now be trained on a client's own data and run entirely within a client's own infrastructure: private servers, air-gapped environments, or edge and desktop devices
Market size: The global sovereign AI market is projected to grow from $40.0 billion in 2025 to $148.0 billion by 2032, a 20.6% compound annual growth rate, according to MarketsandMarkets (August 2026)
Fastest-growing segment: MarketsandMarkets identifies on-premises AI infrastructure as the fastest-growing deployment mode within that market
Enterprises are already moving: According to Broadcom's Private Cloud Outlook 2026, a global survey of 1,800 senior IT leaders, the share of enterprises using public cloud as their primary environment for production AI fell from 56% to 41% in a single year, while 56% now run or plan to run production AI on private infrastructure
Primary buyers: Healthcare, finance, government, and other organizations with strict data-security or compliance requirements
Why This Matters
Enterprises have reached a turning point in how they deploy AI. According to Broadcom's 2026 survey of senior IT leaders, more than half of enterprises now run or plan to run production AI inference on private infrastructure rather than the public cloud - a reversal from near-parity just a year earlier. Independent analysts at MarketsandMarkets project the sovereign AI market will more than triple by 2032, and identify on-premises infrastructure as growing faster than any other deployment model within it.
The reasons are consistent across industries: enterprises want the benefits of real-time AI without giving up control of their data, their models, or their compliance posture. For OneMeta's own client base - regulated organizations in healthcare, finance, and government - this has meant asking a direct question: can real-time translation run without any conversation ever leaving the building.
OneMeta's answer is architectural, not just operational. The same translation and transcription technology the Company runs in the cloud can now be trained on a client's own data and operated entirely within a client's own environment - a private data center, a fully air-gapped server with no internet connection, or a desktop or edge device.
Leadership Commentary
"Our clients and their clients have been asking us to bring our tech stack and CX inside their own walls," said Saul Leal, Founder and CEO of OneMeta. "That's a substantially different problem. Nevertheless, we now deploy in the cloud or on-premises. Allowing the model itself to be trained on a client's own data and operated entirely within an environment they control, from end to end. The market data backs up what we're already hearing directly from clients: enterprises are prioritizing to have full control over their own data, as they move towards real time AI deployments. And, we built OneMeta to carry those objectives as a turn key vertical solution."
"Clients are increasingly asking: do we have the option to run the Verbum platform entirely inside our own walls," said Tim Fisher, Senior Vice President of Sales at OneMeta." Doing so it's becoming a strategic differentiator. Now our clients don't have to sacrifice accuracy and speed for control - and that shift, with a promising ROI trajectory, is opening doors for OneMeta that simply didn't exist a year ago."
Availability
VerbumSDK On-Prem / Edge is available now to enterprise and government clients.
About OneMeta Inc.
OneMeta is the real-time understanding company™. Its Verbum technologies deliver secure, real-time translation, transcription, and interpretation across 140+ languages. OneMeta's mission is to create a more understanding world.
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"Deaf interpreters translate hours of Netflix content into ASL because closed captioning isn’t a fix
Former San Diego and Alpine resident, Scott Keller, is one of the certified Deaf interpreters who worked on the project between SignUp Media, an entertainment company focused on accessibility for the Deaf community, and Netflix
Scott Keller, a Certified Deaf Interpreter, is seen here translating the children’s program “Llama Llama.” (Photo courtesy of SignUp Media)
Any time his children want to watch a movie, Scott Keller stands next to the television in the family room to translate what they’re watching into American Sign Language.
“I have the subtitles on for myself to understand, and I sign the content real-time. My children get the benefit of the movie’s content in American Sign Language and English, simultaneously,” he said via email. “Deaf people are naturally bilingual, and I know that what I am doing for my children, not many other children have the same opportunity.”
Keller is a Certified Deaf Interpreter through the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf, a nationwide licensing body. He, his wife, and their three children (a fourth is on the way) are all deaf, and his kids attend the Texas School for the Deaf in Austin. His work includes translating entertainment content into ASL through SignUp Media, an entertainment company focused on accessibility for the Deaf community. They have a global network of hundreds of Deaf interpreters who translate hundreds of hours of content into multiple sign languages. Recently, Keller was among a number of interpreters involved in SignUp Media’s partnership with Netflix to do this work on dozens of the streaming platform’s original programming for kids and families, and licensed titles, available through SignUp. The ASL translations by the interpreters is overlaid directly onto the streaming content, and viewers can resize or reposition it next to the video as they wish. Titles include “Pokemon Horizons,” “The Magic School Bus Rides Again,” “Cocomelon,” and “Stranger Things: Tales from ’85,” and interpreters are all Deaf and native signers, and were matched by language, character, and lived experience—a Cuban Deaf interpreter worked on “Vivo,” while an Asian Deaf interpreter worked on “Wish Dragon,” keeping the translations culturally relevant and accurate.
Keller, who lived in San Diego and Alpine before moving to Austin, Texas, in 2023, previously worked at Deaf Community Services of San Diego. He’s currently working toward a Ph.D. from the University of San Diego in leadership and organizational management, with plans to establish a nonprofit advocacy center.
“As a disabled individual, specifically with my Deafness, I constantly have to prove myself. To represent myself and my community well, I feel that a doctoral degree in the area I have a passion for will be able to shine a light to my community,” he says. “I chose organizational management because my passion has always been helping others in my community and the nonprofit field opens doors to that.”
(This interview has been edited for length and clarity. )
Q: You’re one of the Deaf interpreters in SignUp’s partnership with Netflix to translate dozens of children’s programs to American Sign Language. Which programs did you translate and how long did it take you to complete the translations?
A: I have done “Hotel Transylvania 3,” “Train Dreams,” “Frankenstein” (Guillermo Del Toro’s version), among others. The time it takes me to translate the content is equivalent to the duration of the film. If the film is 60 minutes long, I translate 60 minutes of content in real time. Although, there are more hours invested in the project such as prep time (watching the film beforehand, especially if it’s the type of film to win an Oscar), my home studio setup and break down (I have my studio set up in the kids’ playroom, so you can imagine the extra time it takes me to clear out their mess every time). I have post-production time that includes ensuring the data I record gets transferred to the laptop and then to the cloud. I would say anywhere from 60 to 90 more minutes extra, on top of the duration of the film.
Q: Walk us through your process for this kind of ASL translation work. How did you prepare and execute this project? What were some of the challenges, or tricky spots?
A: When I am assigned a project, I can choose to take or pass on it. While I have yet to pass on a project, I will review the content and see if it’s something I need to research, perhaps specific jargon that will require more time translating. Then, I set up the studio when my kids go to bed, and I begin translating in real time with my camera recording myself, and my laptop running the content. The challenges vary; sometimes it’s the content, sometimes it’s the mess my kids leave, and sometimes I’m just really tired! I would say the challenges are in translating characters. I mean, I’m an individual translating the entire movie’s content that could range anywhere from two, to five, to maybe 10 different characters. Sometimes more than several characters are displayed on the same screen, and it gets hard to differentiate between which character is speaking a message. I address this by shifting my shoulders to the left and the right, matching the position of characters on the screen. If one character is on the left, and another character is on the right, I will translate while leaning to the left and then to the right. In a perfect world, I would like to see one interpreter for each character! That would be amazing.
Q: Are you comfortable talking a bit about your background and how you became deaf?
A: Absolutely! I was born proudly genetically Deaf! Deafness spans four generations in my family, and that equates to about 100 years. My children are the fifth in the generation, being naturally, genetically Deaf. We carry the gene Connexin 26, which is known to cause deafness. Connexin 26 is a protein produced by the GJB2 gene. Variants in GJB2 are among the most common genetic causes of congenital, nonsyndromic, sensorineural hearing loss. Although, this is not the case for many other Deaf kids; research has it that between 90% to 95% of Deaf kids are born to hearing families, which means they are the only family member that’s Deaf and, more often than not, the only person left out linguistically and culturally. My family has no issues with communication as each member is Deaf.
Q: How has your lived experience shaped your approach to this work?
A: My mother used to do this for me when I was growing up. She did not have the same educational opportunities as I did, but she made sure that her kids would get better access. She would attempt to translate what she knew when watching TV/movies, and as little kids, that was enough. While growing up, my mother would fight for our accessibility rights at school, after school, even at the doctor’s office. She would not give up until each of us had equal access. I think that played a big role in the reason why I continue to do community work, and ensuring accessibility is not an afterthought for the Deaf community.
Q: Can you talk about what’s missing from closed captioning, and why it’s not the fix that other people might assume it would be?
A: With subtitles and closed captioning, a lot of things get missed. Sometimes, it’s a technical glitch, sometimes it’s a grammar error, and most of the time it is simply a written representation of the spoken words. To accurately understand the captions, it takes understanding the spoken word, understanding the innuendos, tone, rhythm, sarcasm, and a lot of other things that are hidden in the message. Basically, captioning provides access to words, while interpreting provides access to the message’s linguistic, cultural, emotional, and contextual meaning.
Q: What’s most exciting or gratifying for you about this project, and having these programs include ASL now?
A: I’m excited and grateful that Netflix is on board, because I think each title in Netflix’s database should be accessible in American Sign Language, or at least just those titles that already offer subtitles in other languages. American Sign Language is often overlooked, missed, or simply never accounted for. To include ASL, it takes extra time in locating the right talent (interpreters, actors, performers, what have you) and it takes technical time (recording, editing, set up/break down, uploading, etc.). Although we live in a tech-paced environment in America, and it’s 2026, I think it’s time that movies and TV shows are automatically accessible..."
By Lisa Deaderick | lisa.deaderick@sduniontribune.com
PUBLISHED: August 16, 2026
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/08/16/deaf-interpreters-translate-hours-of-netflix-content-into-asl-because-closed-captioning-isnt-a-fix/
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"Academic quest brings new, full translation of ancient classic to English-speaking world
Remco Breuker, a professor of Korean Studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands, holds his book "Vestiges of the Three Kingdoms of Ancient Korea" at Gyeongbok Palace in Jongno District, Seoul, July 28. Korea Times photo by Choi Won-suk
A few decades ago, Korean studies was often treated as an afterthought and viewed as a sub-discipline to Chinese and Japanese studies. Today, a landmark complete English translation of one of Korea’s most important medieval texts is proving how dynamic and indispensable Korean history is to the global literary landscape.
At the heart of this milestone is Remco Breuker, a professor of Korean Studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands and a leading European authority on pre-modern Korean history. He, together with two other scholars — one of whom was his own teacher — to translate "Samguk Yusa," also known in English as "Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms."
Published by the University of Hawaii Press, his translation is titled "Vestiges of the Three Kingdoms of Ancient Korea." The 570-page work is the first complete and fully annotated English translation of the 13th-century classic.
Compiled primarily by the Buddhist monk Iryeon during the late Goryeo period, "Samguk Yusa" is a collection of forktalkes and legends of the Three Kingdoms period and before.
The newly released volume stands as the fruit of over six decades of dedication spanning three generations of Dutch scholars. The pioneering project was initiated at Leiden University decades ago by Frits Vos (1918–2000), who helped lay the groundwork for Korean studies in Europe.
It was subsequently carried forward by his student, Boudewijn Walraven, before being brought to fruition by Breuker, Walraven’s own student and academic heir.
Translating 800-year-old living classic
Unlike previous English translations, this edition was painstakingly translated in full directly from the original text, which is primarily in classical Chinese, with some elements of "hyangchal" — an archaic writing system that used Chinese characters to represent vernacular Korean. The new book has over 2,000 footnotes, reflecting modern scholarship.
"'Samguk Yusa' is written 99 percent in classical Chinese and one percent in Old Korean poems, preserved through Hanzi phonetics," Breuker, 54, said during an interview with the Korea Times at a cafe in Seoul on July 28. "Older translations were not annotated like this. More importantly, they were translations of translations. If you want to make a proper translation, it needs to be from the original."
Reflecting on his 16 years of effort to finalize and annotate the draft originally started by Vos, Professor Breuker admitted the undertaking was intricate. "Because professor Vos had translated about 90 percent of it, I initially thought we could finish in three years, but that was a miscalculation," he said. "It is personally meaningful to complete the translation, started by the mentor who opened the path for Korean studies."
Beyond its academic significance, he stressed the book remains an important work within contemporary Korean society. "It is a living text; it still matters," he observed. "Almost every year, new translations into Korean appear because people look at the text to decide what their ancestors were like and what the future should look like."
"Vestiges of the Three Kingdoms of Ancient Korea" by Remco Breuker / Korea Times by Choi Won-suk
Diversity of Goryeo and Dangun myth
Professor Breuker’s research highlights the Goryeo period's rich culture and open-mindedness.
"The interesting thing about Goryeo is that whether you talk to scholars of Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism or geomancy, each will tell you their field is the most important," Breuker explained. "All those things coexisted together in Goryeo. In Goryeo, it was seen as different choices to look at the world."
"Samguk Yusa" is also famous for containing the earlist known record of the Dangun legend, which tells the story of the founding of the mythical first Korean kingdom of Gojoseon. Dangun was the son of a heavenly figure and a bear who turned into a human woman after living in a cave while consuming only garlic and mugwort.
According to Breuker, this myth fundamentally reshaped how Koreans viewed their lineage under foreign pressure.
"By starting with the Dangun myth, you completely rewrite Korean history," Breuker noted. "Whether people actually believed Dangun had existed doesn't matter as much as the fact that now you could refer to a common ancestor — one country as the origin of all people on the peninsula."
From ancient storytelling to hallyu
Breuker sees a direct connection between Korea’s ancient storytelling traditions and the modern global wave of Korean pop culture, films, and dramas.
"For the K-pop generation, it shows you how long before BTS or 'Squid Game,' there was a long history of literature worth knowing," Breuker said. "It shows that people are people, no matter the period."
He credited Korea's intense 20th-century history as the incubator for its creative explosion, noting that once censorship lifted, artistic expression surged. He added that Korea's history as a colonized country rather than a colonial power makes its culture non-threatening and uniquely accessible worldwide.
Reflecting on the field's evolution, Breuker celebrated the shift in European academia: "Korean studies used to be the little brother of Japanese and Chinese studies. Now, people can start directly with Korean. I hope this book quenches the long-standing thirst for a deep academic understanding of 'Samguk Yusa.'""
By Park Jin-hai
Published Aug 15, 2026 7:00 am KST
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/lifestyle/books/20260815/dutch-scholar-completes-landmark-translation-of-samguk-yusa
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Cognitive Selfhood and the Last Human Right
As AI takes on more thinking, what happens to the self doing the thinking?
Updated August 26, 2026
Reviewed by Davia Sills
Key points
AI is changing how we think and how we experience ourselves.
Cognitive selfhood means remaining meaningfully present in our own thinking.
Every human right begins with a self that is there to hold it.
Over 100 years ago, Auguste Deter sat across from the physician Alois Alzheimer, struggling to answer simple questions about her life. Her memory was failing, along with other elements of cognition that most of us take for granted. At one point, she offered a remarkable description of what was happening to her: “I have, so to speak, lost myself.”
Her words are powerful and resonant. She didn’t simply say that she had lost her memory or couldn’t remember. She said she had lost herself. Alzheimer’s disease is much more complicated than memory loss, but her words point toward something we almost intuitively understand. Cognition isn’t simply something the self possesses; it’s part of how the self is constructed and experienced.
We tend to think of cognition in functional and rather practical terms. We remember, reason, judge, imagine, and decide. When these capacities begin to fail in dementia, something deeper may change along with them. People with dementia can certainly retain important aspects of identity and agency even with significant cognitive decline. But Deter’s observation raises a fundamental question.
How much of who we are is connected to the thinking we do?
Artificial intelligence approaches that question from a very different direction. With Alzheimer’s disease, cognition can be involuntarily diminished. With AI, cognition can be expanded while portions of the cognitive work are voluntarily handed somewhere else. The machine becomes a cognitive alternative that remembers, writes, analyzes, and participates in decisions that were once the domain of our human brains.
AI’s output can be extraordinary, yet our own participation in producing that output becomes smaller.
This is the emerging issue of cognitive surrender. The concern isn’t that AI makes us less intelligent or somehow diminishes our humanity. AI can be an extraordinary cognitive partner, and many use it that way every day.
But its growing role in our thinking raises another question about what I would call cognitive selfhood.
Cognitive selfhood is our meaningful participation in the thinking through which we experience and become ourselves. It doesn’t require that every thought originate independently inside our heads—that was never true. Teachers, books, conversations, and culture have always shaped our thinking. But I believe that AI introduces something different in degree and perhaps eventually in kind. It can enter the production of an idea before that idea has fully formed within us. It can complete the argument, suggest the judgment, and sometimes provide the thought itself.
This creates a curious inversion. In dementia, cognitive capacity can decline, and the experience of self can become disrupted along with it. With AI, our cognitive capacity can increase dramatically even as our participation in that cognition decreases. We may know more and reason more effectively while becoming less certain about where our own cognition ends and another intelligence begins.
This is where the idea of a human right becomes relevant, although perhaps in a more fundamental sense than we typically use the term. And to be clear, I’m not arguing for another item in a legal or political catalog of rights. I’m thinking about something that comes before the catalog itself. As AI becomes increasingly capable of participating in our thinking, there may be something fundamental worth preserving.
We must preserve our participation in the cognitive processes that help constitute who we are.
Auguste Deter’s words came from the tragedy of a disease that was taking something from her. AI presents almost the opposite circumstance. We are gaining extraordinary cognitive capability, often willingly and enthusiastically. Yet her words offer a strangely relevant and important warning. If cognition is deeply connected to selfhood, the question isn’t simply how much thinking a machine can do for us. It’s how much of our own thinking we need to retain to remain meaningfully ourselves.
Why 'Relational Foreclosure' Matters in the Age of AI
After all, every other human right assumes there is a self there to hold it. And that makes cognitive selfhood something more fundamental than another right on the list. It may be the last human right because, without it, the others begin to lose their meaning."
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-digital-self/202608/cognitive-selfhood-the-last-human-right
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