SlatorPod

On SlatorPod, AudioStack Co-Founder and CTO Peadar Coyle discusses what it takes to deploy voice AI at enterprise scale, from localization and domain expertise to human oversight. Peadar explains how AudioStack enables brands, governments, and media companies to produce localized audio across accents, regions, languages, and individual products. Rather than betting on a single voice model, the company works with multiple providers, treating models as building blocks and selecting them accordi...

Florian and Esther discuss what mattered in language solutions and AI over the past few weeks, including key takeaways from SlatorCon San Francisco 2026, where AI ran through discussions across enterprise localization, voice AI, interpreting, data-for-AI, media localization, and venture capital. Florian covers Smartling’s majority investment from Vitruvian Partners as a positive development after a quieter period for language-related deals. He notes that Smartling plans to use the backing to ...

Dmitrii Sandzhiev and Iurii Agafonov, two of the Co-Founders of NCSpeech, join SlatorPod to talk about building speech AI datasets in emerging markets, scaling data collection through superapps, and addressing the quality and infrastructure challenges behind voice AI. Dmitrii explains that NCSpeech turns idle time in superapps into AI training data by rewarding drivers, riders, and passengers for completing data collection tasks. The company connects AI labs, enterprise R&D teams, and sov...

Florian and Esther discuss the language industry news of the past few weeks, starting with RWS’s proposed acquisition of Acolad and what the deal means for consolidation among the largest language solutions integrators (LSIs). Esther rounds up further M&A activity, including t’works acquiring SwissGlobal, Alfatrad buying Lexic Language Solutions, Alpha CRC acquiring PureFluent, Magna Legal Services merging with Naegeli Deposition and Trial, R&A Translators buying Viva Translatio...

Artur Nowakowski, Co-founder and CTO of Laniqo, joins SlatorPod to talk about the language technology platform’s (LTP) origins, business model, and research-driven approach to AI translation. Artur shares that Laniqo emerged from machine translation research at Adam Mickiewicz University after his team won a WMT 2022 shared task, attracting PONS Langenscheidt, which became the company’s main investor and helped commercialize the university’s technology. Laniqo initially developed its own neur...