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

  • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    if AI ever gets good enough to do this accurately and in real time, we'd be looking at an actual babelfish

    i would finally, at long last, have to hand it to them

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      1 year 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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        1 year 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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        1 year ago

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

        • CrushKillDestroySwag
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          1 year 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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        1 year ago

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

    • Kaplya
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      1 year ago

      Yandex Browser already does this, but to Russian only. It has like 10-15 seconds delay for live streams (at least on Youtube) but it works as well as the auto-generated transcription.