Japanese Publishers Invest in AI Manga Translation Startup (informedainews.com)

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Japanese publishers, including Shueisha and Shogakukan, have invested $4.9 million in Mantra, a startup leveraging AI to accelerate manga translation.

I don't read many mangas, so I don't know how good or bad the translations are, but I thought the news was interesting at least.

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[-] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

AI translation has gotten extremely good. It even replaces the text into English in nearly the same style/font!

I actually used my translator on my phone to read a Japanese manga when I was traveling. It needed another level of human revision, but I was able to get most of the story.

[-] x4740N@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

If you where reading manga with a translator app why not go with a scanlation release instead

If you want to read manga in Japanese then I suggest learning Japanese

this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2024

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