Humans still beat machines when it comes to literary translation
You wouldn’t use Google Translate to churn out an English-language (or any language, for that matter) version of a novel like Gabriel García Márquez’s Cien años de soledad — or would you?
GPT-3 and DALL-E 2 on interpreting
This post, originally posted by Claudio Fantinuoli of KUDO, was written entirely by the GPT-3 AI without any editing. GPT-3 is a language model that uses deep learning to produce human-like text. Illustrated by Dalle-2, an AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language.
Brave adds 93 languages to its privacy-oriented machine translation feature
Brave, a browser based on Google’s open-source Chromium browser, places a particular emphasis on user privacy, blocking any advertisement that depends on trackers. While Chromium has a native translation service, the company launched Brave Translate to ensure the privacy of its users.
Musixmatch is making podcasts more accessible
Musixmatch is venturing into a less melodic realm of audio content: podcasts. To help make podcasts more accessible — both for those who are deaf or hard-of-hearing and individuals who simply wish to read, rather than listen to, the content in a podcast — Musixmatch is generating transcriptions of podcasts.
Can AI translate an unwritten language? Meta thinks so.
Currently, Meta’s speech-to-speech translator only allows users to translate one sentence at a time, however the company stated that its progress in other unsupervised learning projects could help refine the technology.
Wordly adds new feature to platform: Automatic Transcript Translation
In an Oct. 10 blog post, the company announced that clients can now use Wordly’s platform to create a translated transcript of recorded audio content.
Google Translation Hub: game-changer or just another tool in the toolbox?
On Oct. 11, Google announced the launch of a new AI-powered cloud service called Translation Hub. The announcement instantly made waves in the language services industry and beyond, so Nimdzi took a closer look to see what’s really behind the new offering from the tech giant.
UIUC partners with tech companies to improve speech recognition for individuals with disabilities
Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Apple may have competing interests, but they’ve recently found one thing to work together on: All five of these big tech companies have joined forces to support the Speech Accessibility Project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).
Google Search to begin translating local news into user’s preferred language
Finding and reading news articles from another country could be getting a whole lot easier, thanks to a new feature Google has in the works for its search function.