A partnership with OpenAI will let podcasters replicate their voices to automatically create foreign-language versions of their shows.
A partnership with OpenAI will let podcasters replicate their voices to automatically create foreign-language versions of their shows.
The problem with this is the same problem news websites has when they started switching out their foreign language writers with AI.
Just because you can translate what is literally being said word by word, doesn’t mean you’re translating the intent of what was being said.
Idioms, phrases, jokes, pleasantries, etc. won’t translate into foreign languages no matter how well you can translate the literal words being said.
If you want good quality translation, you should get someone who knows the language and the culture to do it, as they can translate what’s between the lines.
Shows with the budget/intent to create good quality translations will have them reviewed/refined by humans before they put it back in the voice of the host, I don’t see why they couldn’t do that.
Shows without the budget or that just don’t care will use full-auto and I’m sure it will indeed suck.
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