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DeepL expands real-time voice translation capabilities

July 23, 2025 /

DeepL, a global Language AI company, announced several updates to its live speech translation solution, DeepL Voice, including expanded language support and advanced meeting productivity features, with Zoom Meetings integration coming soon.

DeepL Voice provides multilingual speech translation in real time, both virtually and in person. DeepL Voice for Meetings provides translated captions during virtual meetings, while DeepL Voice for Conversations offers instant speech translation on mobile for dynamic face-to-face interactions. Updates include:

  • Expanded language coverage: DeepL Voice now supports spoken input in three additional languages – Mandarin Chinese, Ukrainian, and Romanian – adding to its existing lineup (English, German, Japanese, Korean, Swedish, Dutch, French, Turkish, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Italian). Translated captions are available in 35 languages supported by DeepL Translator, with new additions Vietnamese and Hebrew.
  • Enhanced meeting productivity features: Full transcripts and translations from meetings to streamline notes, minutes and follow-up tasks can be downloaded with dedicated admin controls to maintain enterprise-level security and compliance.

DeepL Voice for Meetings will soon be available for Zoom Meetings, expanding beyond its existing Microsoft Teams integration to make multilingual communication accessible on the virtual meeting platform. For in-person interactions, DeepL Voice for Conversations continues to be available on iOS and Android.

https://www.deepl.com/en/products/voice

Bloomreach and Snowflake partner

July 22, 2025 /

Bloomreach, a platform for personalization, today announced a new partnership with the Snowflake AI Data Cloud, empowering businesses to activate enterprise-grade data infrastructures across marketing channels. With Bloomreach and Snowflake, businesses can combine customer engagement with maximum personalization, connecting customer data stored in Snowflake with Bloomreach’s AI-powered marketing solutions. This partnership ensures marketers can activate their Snowflake data instantly and intelligently through Bloomreach.

Bloomreach’s native Snowflake integration is already available to businesses. It securely syncs customer attributes, event data, and product catalogs from Snowflake into Bloomreach. Businesses unlock the full value of their customer data, breaking down silos between storage and activation, and enabling personalization powered by AI.

Additionally, this integration enables marketing teams to:

  • Power Loomi AI agents in Bloomreach with enriched customer and product intelligence
  • Automate campaign triggers based on Snowflake events
  • Deliver timely personalization with fresh data and hyper-relevant insights
  • Safeguard sensitive data through selective import capabilities, transferring only the specific data required for a given use case

https://www.bloomreach.com/en/news/2025/bloomreach-and-snowflake-partner-to-unify-customer-data-and-ai-driven-activation-helping-marketers-personalize-the-entire-customer-journey/

BrowserStack launches Accessibility Design Toolkit

July 22, 2025 /

BrowserStack, a software testing platform, announced the launch of its Accessibility Design Toolkit, a Figma plugin that helps design teams build accessible products right from the design stage.

BrowserStack’s collaboration with WebAIM on the 2025 WebAIM Million report reveals the scope of the problem: 94.8% of one million analyzed homepages had at least one WCAG failure, with color contrast and missing alt text issues ranking among the top two—both preventable during design.

With over 8,800 ADA lawsuits filed in 2024 and the European Accessibility Act, teams are under pressure to meet standards, yet most still address these issues after launch, when fixes become harder and more expensive.

With BrowserStack’s Spectra Rule Engine, the Accessibility Design Toolkit helps shift accessibility left and enables design teams to:

  • Scan Figma design files for color contrast, touch target size, spacing issues, and more
  • Auto-detect UI components, validate against WCAG standards, and auto-annotate with ARIA roles
  • Get AI-powered suggestions to add alt text, fix heading structure, and improve keyboard focus order
  • Generate developer-ready handoffs with built-in accessibility specs and clear annotations

The Accessibility Design Toolkit is a part of BrowserStack’s all-in-one accessibility suite and is available to all Figma users, integrating into existing workflows.

https://www.browserstack.com/accessibility-design-toolkit

TileDB announces partnership with Databricks to harness multimodal data

July 22, 2025 /

TileDB, a multimodal database company, and Databricks, a Data and AI company, announced a strategic partnership to eliminate data silos preventing healthcare and life sciences organizations from fully leveraging AI-driven drug discovery and clinical insights.

The partnership addresses the challenge of integrating complex scientific data that TileDB supports, including multiomics, medical imaging, and clinical records with the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and Databricks’ analytics workflows — enabling the development of AI agents that can analyze all data types without requiring costly data migration or transformation.

TileDB addresses offers a sophisticated, omnimodal data management platform, which takes the notion of multimodality beyond text, video, audio, and images, and adds scientific modalities using multi-dimensional arrays. Scientific modalities are ever-evolving, and the omnimodal philosophy can support whatever is the most relevant and important data today. The TileDB – Databricks partnership establishes a bi-directional bridge between specialized data storage and powerful compute capabilities, underpinned by Databricks’ unified data governance model.

The integration is available now in private preview with select customers, and enables data stored in TileDB’s high-performance array database to run on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, and vice versa. Additional features will be rolled out in the second half of this year.

https://www.tiledb.com

Syncro Soft releases Oxygen AI Positron Assistant 6.0

July 3, 2025 /

All Oxygen AI Positron Assistant 6.0 distributions now feature the advanced GPT-4.1 OpenAI model as default. All AI action prompts have improved quality, consistency, and reuse. The users of the Enterprise distribution get new connectors for Google Gemini and Vertex AI, as well as enhanced Microsoft Azure OpenAI integration and simplified configuration.

Oxygen AI Positron Assistant brings automatic validation and correction of AI-generated content, and smarter document context expansion for the AI Positron Fix action. User preferences and rules can be saved as persistent memories. AI context can be supplemented with additional files automatically, or by manually attaching files to conversations, and prompts can be entered using voice input. AI actions can be invoked directly from chat, the Improve Readability action supports audience level customization, and AI development actions are available for more document types.

Oxygen AI Positron Assistant for Eclipse now works with a broader range of editors (Java, Python, C/C++, Perl, and plain text). It offers a dedicated framework for developing custom AI actions, DITA documentation draft generation from configuration files, and AI-enabled templates for rapid creation of XSLT, XSD, Schematron, JSON Schema, and DTD files. Installation and updates are streamlined with the Eclipse update site support.

https://www.oxygenxml.com/ai_positron/whats_new.html

Cloudflare blocks AI crawlers accessing content by default

July 1, 2025 /

Cloudflare, Inc. a connectivity cloud company, announced it is now the first Internet infrastructure provider to block AI crawlers accessing content without permission or compensation, by default. Starting today, website owners can choose if they want AI crawlers to access their content, and decide how AI companies can use it. AI companies can also now clearly state their purpose – if their crawlers are used for training, inference, or search – to help website owners decide which crawlers to allow. Cloudflare’s new default setting is a step toward a more sustainable future for both content creators and AI innovators.

AI companies will now be required to obtain explicit permission from a website before scraping. Upon sign-up with Cloudflare, every new domain will now be asked if they want to allow AI crawlers, giving customers the choice upfront to explicitly allow or deny AI crawlers access. This significant shift means that every new domain starts with the default of control, and eliminates the need for webpage owners to manually configure their settings to opt out. Customers can easily check their settings and enable crawling at any time if they want their content to be freely accessed.

https://www.cloudflare.com/press-releases/2025/cloudflare-just-changed-how-ai-crawlers-scrape-the-internet-at-large

Grammarly to acquire Superhuman

June 30, 2025 /

Grammarly, an AI assistant for communication and productivity, announced its intent to acquire Superhuman, an AI-native email app that helps users respond faster and save hours every week on their email communications. This acquisition accelerates Grammarly’s evolution into an AI productivity platform for apps and agents, positioning email as a critical communication surface in the company’s vision of an agentic future.

Email is the number-one use case of Grammarly for professionals, with the AI assistant helping to revise over 50 million emails per week across more than 20 email providers, including Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail, and Superhuman.

Superhuman brings more than productivity gains to the acquisition. Building on its impressive adoption, Superhuman is defining the future of email and evolving into a comprehensive workspace for agents. Now imagine taking that efficiency even further with AI agents that triage your inbox, schedule your meetings, perform deep research over all your content, and write full emails in your own voice and tone. Imagine those agents reasoning, problem-solving, incorporating detailed context about your work, and interacting with other systems and agents. This future platform will enable scenarios where users can work with multiple agents simultaneously.

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/company/grammarly-to-acquire-superhuman ■ https://superhuman.com

RWS acquires Papercup’s IP

June 26, 2025 /

RWS, a content solutions company powered by technology and human expertise, has acquired the intellectual property behind Papercup’s AI dubbing technology – known for its unique ability to reproduce a speaker’s tone, pace and emotion faithfully.

The acquisition is a strategic step in RWS’s wider plan to embed advanced AI across its technology stack, accelerating its ability to support enterprise clients with multilingual video, voice and content localization across multiple formats and channels.

Papercup’s technology combines voice synthesis, thousands of unique AI voices and editorial tools for human language specialists to fine-tune the output – offering control and quality output comparable to human dubbing by actors and artists, at a fraction of the cost and turnaround time.

While AI-only dubbing tools often fall short on critical elements like timing, voice consistency and speaker identification, RWS’s hybrid approach puts humans in the loop to optimize tone, pacing and accuracy – enabling video dubbing that’s both scalable and brand-consistent.

Enterprise clients can expect to unlock value from video content that was once too expensive or complex to localize. Papercup’s technology will now sit alongside RWS’s existing suite of language technologies – including Language Weaver for neural machine translation and the Trados platform.

https://www.rws.com/about/news/2025/rws-acquires-papercups-ip ■ https://www.papercup.com

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