https://twitter.com/Seamus_Malek/status/1727448891057144090

  • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    Sentence structure means that it kind of can't happen in real-time as such, because you would need to wait until potentially the end of the sentence to get words that appear early in the sentence in an accurate and natural-ish translation. If "20 seconds later" is real time, barring run-on sentences, which are much more common in speech than in writing, then I guess.

    • JamesConeZone [they/them]
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      7 months ago

      you would need to wait until potentially the end of the sentence to get words that appear early in the sentence in an accurate and natural-ish translation

      germany-cool

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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      7 months ago

      I think most people are okay with a reasonable delay if the live interpretation is accurate.

      • CrushKillDestroySwag
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        7 months ago

        In Star Trek they just edit out all the pauses while everyone waits for their Universal Translator to finish telling them what was just said.

    • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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      7 months ago

      yeah good point, I speak enough german that I should already know how much grammar would be an issue lol