A developer built Video Dubbing Translator, a local-first, browser-based pipeline for dubbing short videos that keeps source media on-device. The pipeline separates vocals from background, transcribes…
A two-week benchmark of ten AI translation tools found Claude 3.5 Sonnet, GPT-4 Turbo, and DeepL Pro best for developer use cases, with Claude achieving 97% accuracy on technical content versus 94% fo…
Few-shot prompting with well-chosen examples outperformed larger models with zero examples in AI translation tests, cutting terminology errors from 9% to 2% on a 500-string test set. The technique, te…
Only 13 of New York's roughly 100 state agencies publicly reported using artificial intelligence in a way that could directly impact the public, according to the state's first-ever AI inventory publis…
Google is developing a Live Translate widget for its Google Translate app, allowing users to start live translations without opening the app, based on an APK teardown of version 10.28.62.953449214.8-r…
Natural language processing (NLP) enables computers to understand human language by breaking down text or speech into smaller pieces and making sense of it using math and rules, addressing challenges …
A study on on-device English-to-Traditional-Chinese subtitle translation shows that reducing the vocabulary of the LMT-60-0.6B model from 151,000 to 64,000 tokens improves speed and privacy. The Local…
A new study from researchers at National Taiwan University introduces LocalSubs, an on-device English-to-Traditional-Chinese subtitle translation model optimized for low latency and privacy. The model…
Large language models have advanced to the point where they can solve open mathematical problems, generate accurate QR codes, and handle real-time customer service calls, according to a compilation of…
Google has rolled out a new default setting called Search Services History that saves user-uploaded media, including images, audio recordings, and files, to train its generative AI models. The setting…
Google is rolling out a new privacy setting called Search Services History that can save users' images, voice recordings, and other media from Search interactions, which may be used to train and impro…
Google quietly updated its privacy settings in June to automatically opt all search users into allowing the company to store uploaded media—including photos, audio, and video—for training its AI model…
Google updated its privacy policy to allow using media uploaded to its search tools—including images, audio, and video—for AI training, automatically opting in all users. Users can opt out by adjustin…
Google updated its privacy settings to automatically opt users into AI training using their uploaded media, including images, audio, and video from Search, Maps, and other services. Users can opt out …
Google is expanding data collection from its services—including Search, Maps, Translate, and Photos—to train its Gemini AI models, with most users unaware of the practice. The company is rolling out a…
Google is rolling out a new Search Services History setting that automatically saves users' uploaded media—including images, audio, and video—for AI training, with the option enabled by default. Users…
The machine translation newsletter reports 16 new job openings at OpenAI and NVIDIA, live translation deployments in police departments and construction sites, and DeepL's shift to AWS introducing US …
The Transformer architecture, introduced in the 2017 paper 'Attention Is All You Need', revolutionized AI by replacing sequential RNNs with a parallelizable attention mechanism. This mechanism allows …
A human writer attempts to improve their French by writing daily, using Google Translate for 50% of the text and acknowledging many irregularities and errors as part of the learning process.…
Google unveiled Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, a new audio model that performs continuous streaming translation with only a few seconds of delay, enabling more natural multilingual conversations. The mode…