Is the universal translator already here?

[rogermunibond]

LLM powered translation in real time either through speakers (over air) or through Bluetooth earbuds?

[LearningMachine]

46 minutes ago, rogermunibond said:

LLM powered translation in real time either through speakers (over air) or through Bluetooth earbuds?

 

Not fully real-time yet, but Google had demoed this with Google Pixel Buds Pro before the growth in LLM capabilities: 

 

https://support.google.com/googlepixelbuds/answer/7573100?hl=en

[Saluki]

57 minutes ago, LearningMachine said:

 

Not fully real-time yet, but Google had demoed this with Google Pixel Buds Pro before the growth in LLM capabilities: 

 

https://support.google.com/googlepixelbuds/answer/7573100?hl=en

 

I thought this was a good use case for the abandoned Google Glasses project, or Meta's project with the Raybans.  I have seen where it can translate the speech into text that you can read on the glasses, like the heads up display on a fighter plane, but I didn't know that they had audio in the works.  

 

This is an amazing development, and would make it 100x easier to travel to other countries. Your glasses could translate the signs for everything into your native language, and the earbuds could allow to understand what is being said.  

[rogermunibond]

AI Meta announced Seamless in 2023

 

You can test it on huggingface.  It's pretty good and even maintains expressiveness/mood of the speech.

 

https://huggingface.co/collections/facebook/seamless-communication-6568d486ef451c6ba62c7724

[John Hjorth]

8 hours ago, Saluki said:

... This is an amazing development, and would make it 100x easier to travel to other countries. Your glasses could translate the signs for everything into your native language, and the earbuds could allow to understand what is being said.  

 

@Saluki,

 

Perhaps the question is also what that would to do with your personal perception of the experience in the first place. [Going at vacation while physically staying at home?] I'm  not sure I in any way understand the concept.

[CorpRaider]

Android my guy.

[rogermunibond]

On 11/9/2024 at 9:48 PM, CorpRaider said:

Android my guy.

 

Are you referring to Google Translate integration in Android?

[Longnose]

I dunno about universal translators. But ive been playing with learning chinese for like 9 months. My learning style is that i want to dive in face first. I tried utilizing Hello talk to find language partners and had a few that lasted a while. But hellotalk has gotten more and more like a freaking dating app than a language partner app. The other day i wondered i wonder if theres any AI chatbots for language. There are and they are still pretty early stage, but man ive enjoyed looking for and playing with the 2-3 ive found so far.  You can have a fake person to talk to in your chosen language. They are the most patient personality on the planet. They are available any time anywhere, No time zone gaps! You can tell them in your native language what you want to practice and how to correct you when you get it wrong. Then they will ask you repeated questions and coach you. 

 

Weaknesses that I'm sure are being addressed. For me in Chinese its struggling with some of the language recognition. Sometimes it gets what i say wrong in the voice recognition. I know my chinese is bad but i know that I know how to say some sentences and when I say them right and the app still gets them wrong i know its wrong not me.

 

But still, this kind of stuff will only get better.

[John Hjorth]

4 minutes ago, Longnose said:

I dunno about universal translators. But ive been playing with learning chinese for like 9 months. My learning style is that i want to dive in face first. I tried utilizing Hello talk to find language partners and had a few that lasted a while. But hellotalk has gotten more and more like a freaking dating app than a language partner app. The other day i wondered i wonder if theres any AI chatbots for language. There are and they are still pretty early stage, but man ive enjoyed looking for and playing with the 2-3 ive found so far.  You can have a fake person to talk to in your chosen language. They are the most patient personality on the planet. They are available any time anywhere, No time zone gaps! You can tell them in your native language what you want to practice and how to correct you when you get it wrong. Then they will ask you repeated questions and coach you. 

 

Weaknesses that I'm sure are being addressed. For me in Chinese its struggling with some of the language recognition. Sometimes it gets what i say wrong in the voice recognition. I know my chinese is bad but i know that I know how to say some sentences and when I say them right and the app still gets them wrong i know its wrong not me.

 

But still, this kind of stuff will only get better.

 

 

Then i's beyond me then, how you're posting this here , @Longnose .

[Longnose]

1 hour ago, John Hjorth said:

 

 

Then i's beyond me then, how you're posting this here , @Longnose .

Eh fair point. 

 

guess i went on side tangent since original statement was about using LMM's to translate and essentially I'm referring to LMM's translating my shitty language learning and carrying on a conversation. 

 

I havent tried it but i know Samsung rolled out the live translate options with thier AI's in the most recent galaxy models. I think S23 and newer.  maybe s22. 

 

I think if you have the galaxy earbuds you can do live translate as well. 

 

Learning is cooler to me than letting a robot do all the work.