EUROPE’S BEEN MADE, NETFLIX MAKES EUROPEANS

EUROPE’S BEEN MADE, NETFLIX MAKES EUROPEANS

April 26, 2021 – An editorial in The Economist suggests that the sharing power of streaming platforms could create a common new European culture. Europe has been made, now we have to make Europeans, to paraphrase Massimo d’Azeglio’s dictum. And Netflix could...
THE FUTURE OF DUBBING WITH AI

THE FUTURE OF DUBBING WITH AI

February 26, 2021 – Imagine watching a movie masterpiece, The Godfather, for example with the original voices of Al Pacino and Marlon Brando, acting in Italian. Accustomed as we are to dubbing director Ettore Giannini’s superb voiceover work on Coppola’s film,...
SPOTIFY STREAMS AUDIOBOOKS

SPOTIFY STREAMS AUDIOBOOKS

January 29, 2021 – It all began with music, the platform’s main function. Next came podcasts, a trend that was late reaching Italy compared with other European countries. Now there’s a new challenge: Spotify has decided to expand its multimedia streaming content...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE HELPS VISUALLY IMPAIRED

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE HELPS VISUALLY IMPAIRED

January 22, 2021 – Facebook is launching a new technology called Automatic Alternative Text, or AAT. The technology helps the blind and visually impaired understand the content of photos posted on the social network. Read the full article!...
TECHNOLOGY ELIMINATES LANGUAGE BARRIERS

TECHNOLOGY ELIMINATES LANGUAGE BARRIERS

July 24, 2020 – “It can be exciting to be on the other side of the world, but difficult too, especially if you aren’t familiar with the destination and, worse, don’t speak the local lingo. And if Italians have always been popular abroad because of the way...