Nimdzi LIVE!

About Nimdzi LIVE!

There is a shadow industry driving the growth of ALL global brands: Localization. Let’s talk globalization, localization, translation, interpretation, language, and culture, with an emphasis on how it affects your business, whether you have a scrappy start-up or are working in a top global brand. Topics are taken from the most recently published market research from Nimdzi Insights (and other sources) and will feature guest speakers from time to time.

Publisher

Nimdzi Insights

Category

business · society & culture · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 Apr 2021

Latest episode

17 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

147 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   17 Oct 2026

   Three Amigos and a Global Revolution Book

   The authors of Three Amigos and a Global Revolution, Agustín Da Fieno Delucchi, MSc, Alfredo de Almeida, and Jorge Russo dos Santos, trace localization’s journey from floppy disks to AI and make the case for what comes after translation. They will be launching the book and signing at hashtag#LocWorld56 Vancouver, starting October 19.

2. 

   16 Oct 2026

   The Rythmo Band: Dubbing's Best-Kept Secret

   In 1949, French dubbing studios invented the "rythmo band." It's a strip of scrolling text that guides voice actors' lip-sync timing, not just their lines. In this episode, Margaux Christie, Product Manager at Voxdub, walks us through three parts. First, the history. Where the rythmo band came from, and how it spread across the French-speaking dubbing world (France, Belgium, Switzerland, francophone Africa, Quebec with a slightly different path) Second, dubbing today. The shift from hand-inked film to scrolling text in modern software. And how AI fits in, not to generate voices or replace actors, but to speed up the mechanical groundwork: transcription, draft translation, scene detection, audio cleanup. That frees up time for what still can't be automated, adapting the translation, personalizing the performance, getting lip-sync exactly right. Third, the next five years. As AI capabilities grow, does the core bottleneck, rhythm and lip-sync precision, stay a human craft, or start to shift?

3. 

   16 Oct 2026

   Who Is Nimdzi Purple? feat. Michelle McIntosh

   There’s an AI consultant on every corner. But what does it actually take to turn AI experimentation into measurable business results?Join Tucker Johnson for Nimdzi LIVE! with Michelle McIntosh from Nimdzi Purple, Nimdzi’s AI consulting division, for a practical conversation about helping organizations move from trying tools to making AI work.We’ll explore where companies get stuck, how to choose worthwhile use cases, and what it takes to bring people along. We’ll also discuss how familiar challenges in localization—data, quality, workflows, and human judgment—can open the door to broader conversations about AI across the business.Whether you’re leading a localization team, running a language services company, or figuring out your organization’s next step with AI, bring your questions and join the conversation.

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YouTube views

88,900

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Podcast Authority Score: 64 / 100

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Quality

62

Social presence

94

YouTube

85

Engagement

30

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