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 […]

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 […]