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→ Turkey’s translators are training the AI tools that will replace them
restofworld.org/2025/turkeys-t

“The trends are global. In November, the Netherlands’ largest publisher announced it would use AI to translate certain books, with humans only involved in light edits. In the UK, over a third of 12,500 translators said they have lost work to machines.”

A smartphone displaying a webpage for "Outlier" with text about shaping the next generation of AI, placed on a stack of Turkish magazines and books featuring various titles and dates.
Rest of World · Turkey’s translators are training the AI tools that will replace themHuman fallout may include being replaced by LLMs, diminished skills, and fewer career options for all but the elite scholars.
#Turkey#training#AI
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Michal :verified: :btw:

I want to #translate some educational videos for my kids to understand.

Given the immense amount of #AI sites that claim to do perfect dubbing with lip syncing etc, it must be something that's "easy" to do (otherwise there wouldn't be so many sites claiming to do it, my logic goes)

Is there a self-hosted solution (voice/audio translate is enough) that I could try running locally, with models available for "smaller" European languages (not just German/French/Spanish/Italian)?

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Mario Guzmán

This is SO COOL and SO VALUABLE.

I’m using the Translate API now in PDX Transit to let users be able to translate #Trimet Service Alerts into their language. By default, it offers from the languages they’ve added to their device in Settings. For me, it offered Spanish.

It uses local ML Models to translate upon pressing the Translate button. Check it out!

#SwiftUI#Translate#Transit
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Kevin Russell

@fracofavor

It is not easy to accidently turn on Translate in Mastodon. You have to go a layer deep in settings, to set your posting language to the language your mastodon app uses.

It doesn't say it's to turn on "offering to translate" - click here.

It doesn't announce you turned on translate for your readers, your posts.

Mastodon should have an obvious button, "TURN ON Translate" or some such, in a platonic way.

#Mastodon#libre#translate
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Peter Christensen

Fellow FR>EN translators, you know how, in Quebec, the French word "Plusieurs" generally means “many” rather than “several”? (You _do_ know this, right?!)

Well, I just had a client question my use of "several” to #translate “quelques.”

That the average francophone Quebecer now thinks “several" means “many” is a sign of how often bad/inexperienced English translators (or machines) are blindly translating “plusieurs" as "several" in contexts when it actually means "many”! 😳

#xl8
#translation

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