AI Translation Slam 2025: Beyond the Binary

Jason Sprague has over 25 years of experience in technology, machine learning, and internationalisation of software. A keen student of languages, he frequently wrestles with machine translations of Armenian, choosing typing convenience over painstakingly slow handwriting.
Jason collaborated with ChatGPT to produce this biography.

Rebecca DeWald is a bilingual translator with a PhD in Translation from the University of Glasgow, working with English, German, French and occasionally Spanish. She coordinates the Emerging Translator Mentorships Programme at the National Centre for Writing in Norwich, and co-runs the Translators' Stammtisch and the In Their Own Words reading group at the Goethe-Institut Glasgow. Rebecca also co-manages writing residencies at Kalewater Cottage Creative Retreat in the Scottish Borders.

• Rebecca DeWald

Christophe Fricker is a literary translator and teaches the MA in Translation course at the University of Bristol.

• Christophe Fricker

Annie Rutherford is a translator and culture project leader working predominantly with and around poetry and translated literature. She currently works as Creative Producer at Push the Boat Out: Edinburgh's international poetry festival, and as the Programme Manager of the International Literature Exchange at the National Centre for Writing. She translates from German, French and Belarusian into English, and recently translated Annette von Droste-Hülshoff's The Jews' Beech into English. In 2025 she was translator in residence for the British Centre for Literary Translation.