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#42 TransPerfect Settles Wordfast, Sandeep Nulkar on India Loc Industry, Mozilla Kills Elmo

October 09, 2020 Slator
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#42 TransPerfect Settles Wordfast, Sandeep Nulkar on India Loc Industry, Mozilla Kills Elmo
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Florian and Esther are joined by Sandeep Nulkar, CEO and Founder of BITS Private Limited and co-Founder of Vernac Language Technologies to discuss India's language industry.

Before Sandeep joins us, your regular SlatorPod hosts talk about the week’s language industry stories...

Florian shares news from Mozilla, which just took the decision to retire Elmo — the backbone of its localization infrastructure — and to axe hundreds of jobs. Esther talks about the recovery in the language industry job index (LIJI), which climbed above the baseline in October for the first time since March 2020. 

The two pick up on a few news items circulated in SlatorSweep: from TransPerfect’s out-of-court settlement with former co-owner Liz Elting over the ownership of Wordfast LLC, to interpreting platform KUDO announcing an integration with Microsoft Teams

Don’t miss our in-depth discussion with Sandeep; we delve into India’s language industry, Sandeep’s take-aways from the Slator’s recent Indian LSP survey results, and his vision for the newly created Indian language industry association, CITLoB.

Agenda and Intro
TransPerfect settles Wordfast
India Survey Highlights
October Jobs Index
Kudo partners with Microsoft
Sandeep Nulkar Joins
Running and LSP in India
Linguistic Diversity
Insights and surprises from the Slator-CITLOB survey
TMS in India
Why e-learning is huge for loc in India