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Re:Seamless: Meta's New Speech Models by tralarpa on Friday December 01, 2023 @11:21AM (#38488467)
It's very impressive what simultaneous interpreters can do. They don't wait for the end of the sentence.
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Re:Seamless: Meta's New Speech Models by MrsPeaches on Friday December 01, 2023 @11:43AM (#38488793)
Even they struggle with jokes though.

This may be apocryphal but I’ve heard that in formal settings (e.g. UN) they won’t translate it and will instead give instruction on when to laugh.

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Re:Seamless: Meta's New Speech Models by numpad0 on Friday December 01, 2023 @11:35AM (#38488690)
Yeah they backtrack on branch prediction failures.
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Re:Seamless: Meta's New Speech Models by dylan604 on Friday December 01, 2023 @11:39AM (#38488747)
What kind of heartbleed that must introduce.
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Re:Seamless: Meta's New Speech Models by Vecr on Friday December 01, 2023 @12:37PM (#38489539)
You mean meltdown/Spectre?
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Re:Seamless: Meta's New Speech Models by dylan604 on Friday December 01, 2023 @12:55PM (#38489841)
probably, but you got the gist anyways
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