Peggy van der Kreeft is an innovation manager at the research and cooperation projects department of Deutsche Welle, the German world broadcaster based in Bonn. She is an applied linguist, specialized in bringing language technology applications, in particular speech-to-text, automated translation, subtitling, and voiceover into the media world. Peggy coordinates human language technology efforts and further enhancement of the plain X localization platform. She currently runs the Monitio project on multilingual media monitoring and also actively participates in SELMA research and innovation advancements such as speech-to-speech translation, summarization, and multilingual analysis of datastreams.