Annie Liu was always pretty conflicted about her identities. At home she would only speak Chinese, and out in the world she would switch to a different language and change… Read More
Textio, the Seattle-based augmented writing startup, is expanding its product offering beyond helping companies craft better job listings and is releasing “Textio for Employer Brand,” a tool to facilitate more… Read More
If you’re familiar with the language learning software Rosetta Stone, there’s a good chance you associate the brand with big yellow boxes and CD-ROMs. In fact, you might still have… Read More
Here’s a chance for you to use a bit of your allotted screen time to learn about how screen time is in the news this week. Merriam-Webster added more than… Read More
Duolingo, the language-learning startup headquartered in Pittsburgh, has operated a small outpost near Seattle in Bellevue, Wash., since last summer and now plans to grow its team there in 2019.… Read More
The next PowerPoint presentation you see may have live captions or subtitles, as Microsoft rolls out a real-time voice translation feature to millions of subscribers. Think of it as an… Read More
Rosetta Stone, the 26-year-old language learning company, has been quietly reinventing itself, and the company’s growing Seattle outpost is increasingly playing a significant role in that transformation. The downtown Seattle… Read More
LinkedIn has added a new feature that allows immediate translation of posts in its news feed. Now, below a post on LinkedIn that is different from a user’s native language,… Read More
Using the right language in job postings has its benefits. And whatever benefits your company is boasting about providing can pay off, too, especially when it comes to the speed… Read More
Knowing that Twitter limits users to 140-character posts has always been equal parts joy and frustration: Joy in knowing that some people on the social media site can’t get too… Read More
Merriam-Webster.com, the online home for the 150-year-old dictionary brand — or, “provider of language information,” as they call themselves — has added more than 250 new words and definitions,… Read More
I always knew I should have looked for work in Hawaii. After all, that’s where the “magic happens” according to a new study by Seattle startup Textio which identifies the… Read More
Your place of work might be an equal opportunity employer, but if you want to fill a job in Seattle in 2017, skip “eoe” and go with “gender identity” to… Read More
Merriam-Webster, the world’s original listicle, just added 1,000 new words to the dictionary on Tuesday, including, you guessed it, listicle. As usual, tech terms dominated the list. While Merriam-Webster might… Read More
Text-to-speech technology isn’t great. I’ve always found the robotic drone of computerized voices a bit grating — a sentiment that came up on a recent episode of GeekWire Radio when… Read More
Scientists have put dogs through brain scans to confirm what pet owners already suspected: Dogs not only comprehend the words we speak, but also how we say them. The patterns of brain… Read More
This season’s plot twists on HBO’s “Game of Thrones” are closely guarded secrets, but you can bet you’ll be hearing a lot from the horse lords known as the Dothraki,… Read More
Microsoft is launching the first preview of its Skype Translator program this morning, giving Skype users on Windows 8.1 the ability to have their spoken words automatically translated between English and… Read More
My family is spread out across the country — from Charlotte, North Carolina to Wooster, Ohio to Seattle, Washington. Three distinct geographic locations in which people use different vernacular to… Read More
Seattle online language community Livemocha has been acquired by Rosetta Stone for $8.5 million in cash. The deal is hardly a home run, given that Livemocha had raised more than… Read More
Visitors to the 28 branches of the Seattle Public Library will now have the ability to pick up some new language skills, thanks to a partnership between the library and… Read More
Save this one for when you have time to sit back and really absorb it. Rajesh Rao, a professor in the University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering department, is… Read More