LATAM LOCALIZATION EXPANDS AT THE KITCHEN MIAMI

MIAMI: The Kitchen, in Miami, was originally founded as an off-shoot of the Venezuelan-based Cisneros Television Group in 2001 specifically to provide language dubbing services for its own 11 in-house networks. Over the years, localization services for the LATAM markets continued to grow, as did the studio’s requests and capabilities in working to and from additional languages as well.

“We do work to and from all languages, in each territory, including working throughout LATAM to enhance our local talent pool. Providing language dubbing services, in Latin Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese, however, was always a mainstay here in our Miami studios. Miami is known as the Gateway to Latin America and the City is now home to many native-speaking LAS and BPO actors”, Ashley Perdigon, Production Manager for The Kitchen explained.....

Dubformer sponsors WMT26 General MT and leads new Spoken Dialogue domain

Dubformer is sponsoring the WMT26 General Machine Translation shared task, where CTO and co-founder Sergey Dukanov has joined the organizing team to lead work on Spoken Dialogue, a new domain that evaluates translation using original video alongside machine-generated transcripts. The work brings real-world speech and video translation challenges into the WMT shared-task setting, including ASR noise, timing, visual context, and tone.

Vision Media Launches Amazon Fire TV App, Expanding Secure Screeners to the Living Room Secure, invitation-only app enables guild members, press, and industry professionals to stream award-eligible content on the biggest screen in the home.

Los Angeles, CA — [May 12, 2026] — Vision Media, the secure streaming platform for the entertainment industry, today announced the launch of the Vision Media Screeners App on Amazon Fire TV, further expanding its ecosystem for secure, invitation-based streaming of award-eligible film and television content.

Plint introduces Strata —

The intelligence layer for media localisation

Göteborg, 14 April 2026

Plint AB today introduces Strata, the intelligence layer for media localisation where conventional approaches capture context and distribute it across managed workflows, Strata builds a complete, structured understanding of source content before any output is generated. Every deliverable is produced from that foundation. Strata is delivered over API, fully automated, and designed to integrate directly into any production pipeline as infrastructure, not as a service.

THE KITCHEN: 25 YEARS AS A GLOBAL LANGUAGE POWERHOUSE

The intelligence layer for media localisation

April 27, 2026

MIAMI — The Kitchen, the entertainment industry’s only Emmy Award-winning language localization studio, is celebrating its 25th year as a global language service provider, recognizing its team, clients, and partners for their continued support and enthusiasm.

“Cinco de Mayo (May 5) is our actual anniversary. We are proud to have reached this milestone and grateful to everyone who has been part of our journey,” said Ken Lorber, Founding Partner, President, and CEO.

GC-SC Welcomes New Creative Director of Creative Strategy

We’re excited to welcome Aaron as our new Director of Creative Strategy at GC-SC—bringing fresh vision, bold ideas, and strategic creativity to help shape what’s next!!

Zawadie Solutions and Adapt Partner to Bring Job Opportunities to African Refugees

February 13, 2026 – Denver, CO – Adapt, a next-generation localization company, has engaged human linguists to deliver high-quality AI-enabled multilingual dubs for Flashback Pictures’ vertical microdrama Pizza Guys vs Vampires.

Adapt’s model integrates advanced AI tools for transcription, translation, and voice generation with a curated network of native human linguists. This human-in-the-loop approach ensures that tone, humor, pacing, and emotional nuance are preserved so stories resonate authentically in each target language.....

OOONA Achieves TPN Gold Star Shield,
the Highest Level of Content Security Accreditation

The company becomes one of the first media localization platforms to earn the Trusted Partner Network's newly introduced top-tier designation

Tel Aviv, March 25, 2026 – OOONA, a global provider of professional management and production tools for the media localization industry, announced today that it has been awarded the TPN Gold Star Shield, the pinnacle of the Trusted Partner Network's newly enhanced Shield framework....

MIAMI'S OWN EMMY WINNING LANGUAGE STUDIO CELEBRATES 25 YEARS

MIAMI: "As The Kitchen enters its 25th year, our goal as a language service provider globally, is to continue to expand our services and to offer complete end to end solutions for our clients, while always embracing the newest technologies available to this ever-changing global industry," explained Ken Lorber President/CEO and Founder of the global studio.

25 years ago, there were three of us in this company in a small townhouse on Miami Beach's Espanola Way. And now we're 50+ globally, with headquarters in a 5-story building in Miami's Edgewater community with thousands of freelance translators and actors who have all contributed to making The Kitchen what we are today.

The Kitchen is a language localization studio, but many will ask, what is a language localization studio and why do we need it?.......

Published: FEBRUARY 16, 2026

From Craft to Algorithm

Every technological revolution begins with anxiety: Will machines replace us? But change happens not when technology pushes people out but when people and tools begin to work in sync, reshaping familiar professions and opening new creative directions. This series explores how artificial intelligence is transforming dubbing and the essence of media itself. I co-founded a company that builds AI dubbing tools. Before you decide what that means, let me tell you about a storm. My mother, a historian, taught me to see the past not as a sequence of dates but as a living system of patterns, to understand what they can teach us and how they can help us predict the future. As a child, I often heard stories about my great-grandparents, who lived through revolutions, wars, waves of migration, and the rapid technological leap of the early 20th century. They still managed to build families, work, create, and change the world..........

BY: Elena Chernysheva, Co-founder, Dubformer

Launch of The Global Creative & Security Community!

The global content supply chain is in the midst of a seismic shift, driven by major changes in audience, formats, and the technology for production and distribution. In response.....

RECAP FROM 2025

A tip of the hat to our 800 sponsors, speakers, exhibitors and attendees, who made this our biggest event in DEG history!

We look forward to hosting you again next year.

Authors: DEG

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How D&C turned impossible timelines into everyday delivery

A human-directed AI workflow with Dubformer helped D&C scale 13x to 6,000 minutes a month while keeping broadcast standards intact.

"It's day and night what you're talking about now."

yoram chertok has been in localization for 20 years. He's seen what AI dubbing looked like 1-2 years ago. Voices weren't good enough. Everything needed manual adjustment.

Today his company delivers lip sync dubbing for theatrical releases. Feature films. Real broadcasters.

What changed wasn't just the tech. D&C built a team of 90 proof listeners across 30 languages. People who direct AI the way a studio director guides voice actors. They decide what sounds right. AI handles the rest.

450 minutes a month became 6,000. A 10-hour series delivers in five days.

Authors: Dubformer.ai

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THE KITCHEN CELEBRATES A QUARTER CENTURY AS A LEADING LANGUAGE SERVICE PROVIDER

January 7, 2025

MIAMI: “The Kitchen has just entered our 25 th year as a leading language service provider. We are celebrating our team, our colleagues and our clients, for their continued faith and on-going, unwavering support in all we do,” Ken Lorber, Founding Partner/President/CEO explained.

Out of the gate, The Kitchen and its then parent company, TM Systems, was awarded two Prime Time Emmy Awards for the creation and implementation of the industry’s first “end to end” suite of language software tools. Not only was the software used within The Kitchen, but it also rapidly became a part of language service providers’ offerings in Los Angeles, Mexico, Argentina and throughout Europe. “That gave us a leg-up on our competition back then, and we continue to retain that type of out-of-the-box attitude with all we do,” Lorber added. “The idea to submit our translation, dubbing, subtitling and QC software to the Emmys was that type of thinking. Never before had a language company even been considered for the Emmy nod. Why not, has always been our motto.”......

Plint retains Mark Howorth as Senior Advisor for introduction of its new technology

PLINT, a leading localization technology supplier, announced that it has retained Mark Howorth to serve as a Senior Advisor.

PLINT’s technology enables cost-effective, automated localization that most closely resembles human language. Traditional technologies like Neural Machine Translation, and Large Language Models still result in output that requires manual intervention to mimic phrasing that sounds natural. Plint has invested significant engineering over the last two years to reduce the need for human post-editing and QC.

September 24, 2025

Vision Media Launches Screening Room for Avid Media Composer

Vision Media announced the launch of its new screening Room Panel for Avid Media Composer, gicing editiors the ability to create secure digital rooms.....

September 16, 2025

Irdeto and Ateme Integrate Trademark

The global content supply chain is in the midst of a seismic shift, driven by major changes in audience, formats, and the technology for production and distribution. In response.....

October 15, 2025

AVT Masterclass Launches "International Phonetic Alphabet for AI Dubbing"

A new course designed to help companies ensure accuracy and consistency in AI-generated speech......

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