Big Tech’s Big Month Sees Hyperscalers Launch Torrent of Language AI Features – slator.com

Fueling media coverage and creator tests and reviews on YouTube, tech giants Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Microsoft, and OpenAI had a busy month of May in 2025, sounding off at events about AI projects, products, and advancements that included a few notable language AI announcements. One such announcement was the introduction of real-time, speech-to-speech translation within […]

Large Language Models Struggle to Evaluate Long AI Translations, Amazon Finds – slator.com

A new study from Amazon has revealed a limitation in using large language models (LLMs) to evaluate AI translation quality: performance drops as input length increases. While LLMs are increasingly used for high-quality sentence-level AI translation evaluation, the study finds that these models become “less reliable when evaluating long-form translation outputs.”  Amazon researchers Tobias Domhan […]

Amazon Prime Video Launches AI Dubbing Pilot – slator.com

Amazon has announced that it has launched an AI dubbing pilot for licensed movies and series on its entertainment streaming platform Prime Video. The pilot involves a “hybrid approach to dubbing in which localization professionals collaborate with AI to ensure quality control,” making its vast streaming library accessible to more of its existing customer base […]

How Amazon Aims to Improve Lip-Sync in AI Dubbing – slator.com

In a December 21, 2024 paper, researchers from Amazon introduced the audio-visual speech-to-speech translation (AVS2S) framework, designed to improve lip-synchrony in AI dubbing without altering the original visual content. Existing dubbing systems frequently modify visual elements to synchronize with generated audio. This often leads to disjointed experiences, raises ethical concerns, and compromises the integrity of […]