Technology continues to assist and resolve many issues and challenges in our modern-day lives. There are advances in assistive and adaptive technologies to foster learning mastery and tools to grow skills. We use technology to develop learning management systems and calculate distances throughout the galaxies. However, technology can’t always predict nor evaluate effectively the areas that are amiss. Fortunately, technology has human beings as collaborators to foster reasoning and intelligent assessments of analytical understandings to the data that is gathered, evaluated, and synthesized.
Due to the combination of technology and humans working together, innovation and information continues to grow. However, much is presented and translated in English in many cultures. This is a growing concern over language learners lack of opportunities in their native languages. Specifically, this is more prevalent among India’s regional language learners facing a moving away from their own language due to high translation costs. Technology alone has not recognized this, but Rian has. Rian is a company that has resolved this dilemma by reducing translation cost and simplifying this problem quickly while fostering job possibilities of local languages.
According to Ani (2019), “Rikaian Technology Pvt Ltd is a Pune based company, which innovated Rian as a means to create jobs by simplifying the end-to-end translation process. Rian is an AI-powered platform that speeds up the translation process by automatically translating the body of the text, leaving only refinements to be completed with the high-quality human review” (Ani, 2019).
Rian seeks to address these language issues globally and locally by developing tools through affordable and available intelligent translation technology to anyone. Rian believes this is the answer to the industry's unprecedented potential for growth of the translation industry. Gautam Kulkarni, COO of Rian states, “(Rian) is providing holistic end-to-end solutions, streamlining the best combination of people, processes, tools, and data.”
Rian translation software allows users to convert 40 languages including major Indian and foreign languages. According to Ani, “It converts Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Videos and more (over 20 file formats) inside their native applications and from the original languages in which they were created” (Ani, 2019). Currently, Rian has 3,000 users and over 50 million words have been translated. These numbers continue grow rapidly with high expectations of reaching the company’s goal of changing 100 million lives.
Source:
Ani. (2019, June 19). Rian's new translation platform powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI). Retrieved June 20, 2019, from https://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ani/rian-s-new-translation-platform-powered-by-artificial-intelligence-ai-119061900991_1.html
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Wayne,
ReplyDeleteI found your blog topic this week to be fascinating. I love learning about new ideas and businesses working to solve problems that I often never think about. Rian sounds like a fascinating venture and I can only imagine that this technology will be increasingly useful as time goes on. What I love most about Rian is that they are striving to help people keep their home languages in their ever day lives. This will not only benefit those individuals, but preserves culture, community, and collaboration.
It is always refreshing to read about a company working to fix a real-world problem for the greater good. Rian sounds incredibly useful for learners around the world and it seems accessible though many common applications like Word. I feel it is most important that the technology be affordable as not to limit the individual that can use it. I look forward to seeing what Rian has in store in the future!
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