Re:ElevenLabs Launches Voice Translation Tool to Break Down ...
by bemmu on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @02:08PM
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Good idea, added a Putin video translated from Russian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSkjQJcqaFo
Re:ElevenLabs Launches Voice Translation Tool to Break Down ...
by peddling-brink on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @05:49PM
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I love the slow whispered "Thaaank Yooooouuuu" at :10.
Re:ElevenLabs Launches Voice Translation Tool to Break Down ...
by fivecour on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @05:19PM
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Here's another example:
Steve Jobs on death | Walter Isaacson and Lex Fridman (EN->JP): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YiJLDhcWSI
Maybe it does better on longer videos, but as someone who is fairly well-versed in Japanese this one was not a good result either. There is also a bit of wonkiness in this one, where in the dub Lex says some of Walter's lines and vice-versa, and at one point both of them repeat verbatim the same exact translated phrase which doesn't correspond to anything said in the original.
(As a non-native speaker) several bits of the Japanese transcription were just Japanese-sounding noise, and the prosody was completely all over the place in the bits that were actually Japanese. The dub does get across most of the things being talked about, but I wouldn't consider it an acceptable dub (even for most of the bits where it is actually in Japanese).
I wonder if reason is that the dubbing works better between more similar languages and struggles when dealing with disparate languages. I don't speak Chinese or Korean, but it would be interesting to see how well their dubs are.
Can you do another video into Japanese, to see if it's just an issue with the Paul Graham video? Also, how about translating from another language to English?