Best practices for translation internships: a guide for students, universities and language service providers
European Day of Languages: Languages unite! – How languages shape inclusion, Thematic Session II, European Commission, online conference, 30 September 2026.
With: Nikola Kunte, Alexandra Krause, Adriano Ferarresi, Oleksandr Bondarenko, Yota Georgakopoulou, Angela Forzatti
Download the guide here: https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/8dccb1fc-bcb9-11f1-81de-01aa75ed71a1
Will AI Make Localization Better or Cheaper?
Voices of the Industry podcast by the AI Localization Think Tank
Ep17: Yota Georgakopoulou interviews Dr. Volker Steinbiss
Will Audiences Accept AI Dubbing?
Voices of the Industry podcast, by the AI Localization Think Tank
Ep 15: Yota Georgakopoulou interviews Scott McCarthy
The Worst AI Dubbing We’ll Ever See
After three decades of working in media localization, I have witnessed many shifts, but nothing quite like AI dubbing. The change is not incremental. Unlike automatic speech recognition or machine translation, which slotted into existing subtitling workflows as useful aids, … Read the rest
From Craft to Algorithm
A fascinating roundtable on the state of the union and the future of AI dubbing that I had the pleasure of moderating. A discussion you don’t want to miss.
Read the essay and watch the full roundtable here: https://www.dubformer.ai/ai-dubbing-future
The European Accessibility Act
I get asked a lot what the European Accessibility Act means for audiovisual content, so I pulled together some notes in this blog post.
TL;DR: Content “published” on a “website” (i.e. delivered over IP) needs to be accessible. This … Read the rest
LocWorld 53, Malmö, June 3-5, 2025
So happy to have spent some time with several of my fellow AI Localization Think Tank members in Malmö this June!
Read our takeaways from the conference here: https://www.ailocthinktank.com/post/think-tank-takeaways-from-locworld-53
TL;DR: It was about butterflies, chaos and AI 😉
Why I joined the AI Localization Think Tank
By Yota Georgakopoulou
Perhaps one of the most exciting changes for me in 2025 has been joining the AI Localization Think Tank, an alliance of experts, innovators, and problem-solvers at the intersection of AI and localization. Our goal? To help … Read the rest
Subtitle Edit Rate (SubER)
By Yota Georgakopoulou
I have been working on an automatic subtitle evaluation project recently and have had to compare the output of different speech recognition and machine translation providers.
When time, effort or volume does not allow you to use … Read the rest