Impact of AI on translation industry

Artificial intelligence is replacing translators but for localization and transcreation, it cannot remove human translators completely.

The advancement made in the field of AI has changed many ways of doing things that we used to do before. The industry which is immensely affected by AI is the translation industry. According to the rough estimate, the AI software growth rate was 54% in 2021. In addition to it, the scope of technology is so fast that its market size will expect to reach $22.6 billion by 2025. Communication is an integral part of human lives. From business to diplomacy, the growth in different facets of life depends upon effective communication. Globalization has given it a great boost through the emergence of technologies like API not only in business but also in legal issues. The importance of large data has raised the requirement of publishers and translation services. The important thing to note is that the technology is unable to evaluate the cultural and regional intricacies. Therefore, the advent of artificial intelligence and machine learning is not equal to human translations. One of the foremost benefits of advanced AI software is accommodating the large set of content databases that they were unable to process efficiently when there was no advanced technology.

According to one survey, the use of Google has drastically increased the translation of 300 trillion words as compared to 200 billion words that were translated by the professional translation industry in 2019.

The accuracy of translation is still ambiguous but the improvement has been significant. This thing has given the great privilege to businesses that were unable to afford translation services in the past.

On the other hand, the privacy and customization of data through generic engines have also raised the question of fulfilling the requirement of specific needs of commercial and industrial settings. Some people are of the view that only big companies can access and mine big data to improve machine translation systems. Therefore, it helps a variety of companies of different sizes to customize the content according to their requirements. For this reason, many companies need to build pre and post-processes and try to build their systems.

The impact of AI on the translation industry may seem to you a threat for translators but if the translation industries adopt the business models according to the requirements of international markets, then they can turn threats into opportunities. AI with human interventions can provide the world with effective communication without any errors.