Beyond Translation: The Native Experience Podcast · 2026-05-27 · 42 min
If Shazam can identify a song in a noisy nightclub, then we can Shazam languages and connect someone who speaks that language in real time. That was the thought that led Dieter Runge to co-found Boostlingo, a language access platform born from four people sleeping under their desks in San Francisco. Dieter shares how Star Trek's universal translator became his life's work, why holoportation boxes are transforming sign language interpretation in Australia, and what it felt like to hear that someone handed a stranger an iPhone with his technology during a natural disaster so they could find the Red Cross shelter. He introduces his LARGE framework: Language Access, Rights, Justice, and Equity, and argues that AI will reverse language extinction rather than accelerate it. This is Episode 31 of Beyond Translation: The Native Experience Podcast,
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