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Spotify is going to clone podcasters’ voices — and translate them to other languages (www.theverge.com)
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A partnership with OpenAI will let podcasters replicate their voices to automatically create foreign-language versions of their shows.

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[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I honestly think this a non-issue with the new llms coming out. Gpt 4 definitely understands idioms.

Hardest part with be getting the tone down and adding proper emotion to it.

[–] PixxlMan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Honestly, I agree. Machine translation isn't by necessity limited to "literal" translations anymore.

[–] greenskye@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

There's probably a strong English bias to that currently, but other languages will come with time