OpenAI Doubles Down on Live Speech Translation in ChatGPT – slator.com

OpenAI is rolling out enhancements to ChatGPT‘s Advanced Voice Mode (AVM) feature for paid subscribers, promising more natural and human-like interactions, alongside a new real-time language AI speech translation capability. AVM leverages natively multimodal models, specifically GPT-4o, which are engineered to directly “hear” and generate audio. “Just ask Voice to translate between languages, and it […]

Lessons from AI Translation to Improve Multilingual LLM Evaluation – slator.com

As large language models (LLMs) continue to scale across languages, their evaluation frameworks are struggling to keep pace. Two recent studies — one from Alibaba and academic partners, the other from a collaboration between Cohere and Google — highlight critical challenges in multilingual LLM evaluation. “As large language models continue to advance in linguistic capabilities, […]

Alibaba and Meta Face Off in Simultaneous AI Translation – slator.com

Two recent research papers — one from a team at Alibaba and Xiamen University, the other from Meta AI —- proposed different ways to improve simultaneous AI translation (SiMT): by adapting large language models (LLMs) for real-time use, and by extending translation systems with a lightweight streaming module. The Alibaba and Xiamen University researchers introduced […]

Microsoft Rolls Out Real-Time Translation for Live Captions Feature – slator.com

On December 18, 2024, Microsoft announced it was piloting real-time translation in its live captions feature for AMD and Intel-powered Copilot+ PCs. According to a Windows blog post, the roll-out will gradually include the ability to translate live captions from more than 44 source languages into English, for use cases such as “real-time video calls, […]