He Localized Windows, Skype & Teams at Microsoft for 20 Years. Now He's Saving Dying Languages.

Soeren Eberhardt has three decades of experience in localization. At Microsoft for over 20 years, he contributed to global launches of Windows, Skype, and Microsoft Teams, driving international readiness and scalable workflows. He has taught localization and CAT tool courses at the University of Washington, City University of New York, Montclair State University, and NYU. He currently serves as Localization Director at Translation Commons and is contributing to the Mayan Languages Preservation Project, exploring synthetic data generation to support machine translation for under-resourced languages like Q'eqchi'. He is the author of The Little Book of Languages (2013) and The Little Book of Localization (2023).

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