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A booming tech sector has disrupted translation jobs in publishing – but they could be needed for a while longer yet In February 2022, while he was plugging away at rendering the US writer Dana Spiotta’s novel Wayward into French, the literary translator Yoann Gentric decided he needed a bit of light relief. He would test whether AI could put him out of work. Gentric had been grappling with a short non-verbal sentence that described the book’s protagonist’s feelings upon opening a window: “Bright, sharp night air, bracing.” He put the prompt into DeepL, a neural-network-powered machine translation engine that regularly outperforms Google Translate in accuracy assessments. Continue reading...
Read full articleSpotify has expanded its interactive AI DJ feature to four new languages — French, German, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese — alongside launches in Austria, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, South Korea, and Switzerland. The feature is now available in more than 75 countries, having previously been limited to English and Spanish. Each new language version comes with a distinct […]
Spotify's AI DJ feature now supports French, German, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese.
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