AI tools unveil speedy multilingual content, the current limitations

Introduction

In today’s ever growing digital worlds in which advanced technologies innovate at a rapid rate, people's daily lives have always been affected and changed by various means. Remote class is one concrete example.

Unlike conventional classrooms where teachers and students have to be constrained in the same limited space and the classes have to be taught where both are available at the same time, with platforms such as Zoom, online courses offer more options for both teachers and students, where teachers can choose to record their lectures ahead to let those who can't attend on time to watch later, or the classes can be entirely asynchronous.

Students can study wherever they have access to the internet. This releases more flexibility in both time schedules and places located.

However, remote classes still have limitations despite plenty of convenience have been rewarded. Most online and recorded courses are yet to connect with multilingual translation mechanisms. Lots of courses are recorded in languages that are less commonly spoken and have only limited student audience among the domestic range. To make those courses more global to reach more international audiences, with effortless language translation, we offer an AI driven tool named AddSubtitle.

Seamless AI-Powered Translation

Now, educators and professionals, are you guys ready for this? Here are some fresh tips for you to familiarize and get accustomed to generate translations through AddSubtitle.

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Imagine uploading an educational video: such as a tutorial—and instantly generating subtitles in multiple languages. With Talecast’s AI-driven translation, educators can:

Translate content into various languages with a single click.

The current edition offers 20+ languages from our translation function. The translation process is greatly generated by AI tech, trained under vast data analysis and algorithms. The translated languages will be automatically inspected and checked with the original language to minimize misinterpretation rate.

Automatically generate subtitles that match the video's pacing.

Aside from translation, AddSubtitle now offers subtitle addition as well. Subtitles are also easily available to users, similar to how you handle translation, the presence of subtitles are a few clicks away from your original video. The subtitles generated, based on TTS & STT and other relevant NLP technologies, sets the paces from organic voice as synchronous as possible, to a great extent. This combined with AddSubtitle's technology which allows for simultaneous translation, ensuring the original and targeted language(the language that is expected to be translated) to be synchronously progressed.

Preview translations before publishing

The system allows users to double check and preview the content translated, in which both original language and translated will be presented for users. Users can also rely on other translation tools such as Google translate to closely monitor the precision.

Practical advantages brought by AI-translate & subtitles

It is not difficult to see that such AI generated functions can save a significant amount of time for teachers and educators. Lecturers across the globe can focus more on their primary goals: pass the knowledge they acquire to others, in their very "primitive" manner: speak in their own languages and cover the materials the way they do on a daily basis. Multilingual translations as well as subtitles can help teachers transmit their voice to not just within their countries' borders, but access to a more global audience as well.

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Challenges faced by AI tools

Despite erasing language barriers between learners and educators across regions, greatly cutting time costs which have eased the procedure for this interconnection(regard educators as the output source of knowledge, in which knowledge can be generally interpreted as info, and students receiving such info are the recipient), there are still obstacles for AI tools in general to overcome.

Here are a few shots shared by Murf resources in April 2023, which the issues still exist and awaited to be tackled.

Cultural Misinterpretation

Although being trained through massive data analysis, translation between languages can get trapped into being too stiff, which results in failure to correctly convert meanings for particular words into different languages. Almost every language has idiomatic expressions. Whether AI tools, regardless of how technically advanced, can accruately get the internal comprehension and express such sentiment smoothly is still uncertain.

Humane related Complexity

As every language has its own grammar rules, many also include widely used dialects in remote regions "lingua franca". At some occasions, AI tools, most of which may still struggle to notice all major grammar patterns when encountering relatively lengthy sentences, as well as less distinguishable accents. Both can undermine the quality of AI translation, hindering normal communications across the globe.

Conclusion

With all being discussed above, AI tools are moving forward and will always seek for better resolutions to enhance user experience. With the data being stored and trained to grow in size, the algorithms proceed to get advanced and sophisticated, we can optimistically hold the belief that the challenges stated above will be slowly overturned.

Stay tuned for AI development! Especially the section of AI translation. We welcome you to visit us: AddSubtitle.ai

Don't hesitate to reach out:)

Articles written by Zhanyu Xie, a junior copywriter and Operation assistant for the AddSubtitle team