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

submitted 2 years ago by NineSwords@ani.social to c/manga@ani.social

21 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] NineSwords@ani.social 2 points 2 years ago

On the other hand, the biggest localization scandal (for lack of a better word) didn’t happen at the translation, it happened when failed YA authors were allowed to rewrite the work, which will still probably be a problem. So it might not do very much good either.

I think this is an important point. If this can take the translator's ego out of the equation it would be a clear win. But then, they would probably insert it back again in the revision stage. My best case scenario would be that with the AI doing the heavy lifting there is enough human workforce going around so that those type of translators who rewrite the story find themself jobless.

this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2024

21 points (88.9% liked)

Manga

1598 readers

4 users here now

This community is for discussions related to manga.

Rules

Posts must relate to manga or similar (manhwa, etc.).
Obey the ani.social Terms of Use.
In general, keep things civil and avoid attacking other individuals.
Make sure to tag spoilers where appropriate. See here for details.
Memes should be redirected toward a different, more appropriate community and will be removed. Same with hentai.
Posting rehosted versions of official releases is not allowed. Either post the official release if it is publicly available or post a scanlated release.

Post Tags

Post tags are optional, but are recommended since some frontends can use them to categorize posts. Some recommended post tags:

[Discussion], [DISC], [Chapter] - chapter discussion threads
[Art] - Official art from a series or author, OC fan-art is also allowed
[News] - news updates about series, authors, publishers, etc.
[Rec] - Recommendation posts are posts in which you recommend a series to others. Please provide a short review and information about the series as well.
[Spoiler] for discussions with spoilery content - indicate the series that is being spoiled

Related communities

!anime@ani.social
!lightnovels@ani.social
!visualnovels@ani.social
!otomegames@ani.social
!isekai@ani.social
Megathread of other communities on the fediverse maintained by @MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

PrincessKadath@ani.social

Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world

Essence_of_Meh@ani.social