Claudio Fantinuoli — Language Technologies — Innovation, Research & Management
I am the creator of InterpretBank and Interpreter24.
I am also a professor at Mainz University, with a PhD in Applied Linguistics, with a focus on supportive tools for professionals, and automatic speech translation. As a C-suite executive, I advise companies and public institutions, including Voiseed, where we build high-quality synthetic voices, and the European Parliament.
Surprised to find myself among the 16 thought leaders shaping the future of the language industry, I write about technology on my blog and as a columnist for Multilingual.
You can reach me at info@fantinuoli.org.
Recent blog posts
Beyond ‘Good Enough’: Asking the Harder Question About AI TranslationThe debate about whether AI translation is good enough risks mistaking a transitional moment for the future. What happens to professional expertise if the technology becomes very good?
The perception of AI: swinging between euphoria and dystopiaI have never experienced anything quite like this in my life: a divide, among genuinely intelligent, informed people, that runs this deep, this evenly, and this fast.
End-to-end versus cascading AI interpretingEnd-to-end speech translation is moving from research prototypes into usable systems. The important question is no longer whether the architecture works, but what it changes in our understanding of interpreting, control, latency and human expertise.
Empathy: The Last FrontierAnyone following the debate on machine interpreting knows the sequence of arguments by heart. First we were told: the machine will never be accurate enough. Interpreting is too complex, too contextual, too ambiguous for an automatic system to render faithfully. Then accuracy improved exponentially, and across many domains and language pairs the gap narrowed until,…
The End of Translation and Interpreting Studies as we know themPeople were thinking seriously about translation long before anyone thought of studying it. Cicero, defending his renderings of the Attic orators, already distinguished between translating ut interpres and ut orator — word for word, or sense for sense. Jerome wrestled with the same dilemma in his letter to Pammachius; Luther defended his German Bible against…