Watch any English YouTube tutorial MT voice-overed to Russian Thread poster: Philippe Locquet
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Hi all,
I just got this news today and found it pretty impressive.
Most of the tutorials we search for online are in English and subtitling is not always optimal to say the least. An MT-driven solution has been released to auto translate speech to speech real-time when watching a YouTube video (for English to Russian only at the moment AFAIK).
To use it you need to download Yandex browser, then when opening a YouTube video, you will see a banner and buttons offeri... See more Hi all,
I just got this news today and found it pretty impressive.
Most of the tutorials we search for online are in English and subtitling is not always optimal to say the least. An MT-driven solution has been released to auto translate speech to speech real-time when watching a YouTube video (for English to Russian only at the moment AFAIK).
To use it you need to download Yandex browser, then when opening a YouTube video, you will see a banner and buttons offering speech translation, just click to turn it on. You will get a female voice in Russian (Alice I think). The speed is quite good.
I don't speak Russian, so I can't evaluate the translation, but I'm sure many of you will be able to comment on this. If the quality is OK, that will be useful to watch tutorials.
My bests to all
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| | | | Samuel Murray 
Netherlands
Local time: 03:34
Member (2006)
English to Afrikaans
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Philippe Locquet wrote:
You will get a female voice in Russian (Alice I think). The speed is quite good. ... I don't speak Russian, so I can't evaluate the translation...
Tried it. Can't speak Russian either, but it sounds quite good. Alice has a very deep bass voice. Too many steroids? Oh, wait, no I didn't get the female voice. To me, it defaulted to a male voice. The speaking speed matches the video speed quite nicely. It can't do singing (yet).
| | | | Stepan Konev
Russian Federation
Local time: 04:34
English to Russian
| Yandex.Browser required | Sep 17, 2021 |
The feature only works with Yandex browser, one of the least popular browsers. I don't know a single person among my acquaintance that uses it at all.
| | | | Peng Zi
China
Local time: 09:34
Member (2021)
Russian to Chinese
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| Яндекс---Cool browser! | Sep 17, 2021 |
The Yandex is very cool. Its browser is very cool. In my country especially in the IT fields people all have respect to Yandex. MT of Yandex is good ! I compared it whti the Google DeepL, it is good enough (no better than them
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Oksana Weiss
Germany
Local time: 03:34
Member (2011)
German to English
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| I tried it and the experience is frustrating | Sep 17, 2021 |
I installed Yandex browser (and already deinstalled it) and tried a Russian voiceover of an English YouTube video. It is, as MT nowadays is, full of mistranslation, false translator's friends, and word-for-word replacement. I have got a headache after 2 minutes of listening to it - above all, this monotonic robotic voice is depressing. You can get a general sense of what is being said, but you will not be wiser afterward.
| | | | Philippe Locquet
Portugal
Local time: 02:34
English to French
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Oksana Weiss wrote:
I installed Yandex browser (and already deinstalled it) and tried a Russian voiceover of an English YouTube video. It is, as MT nowadays is, full of mistranslation, false translator's friends, and word-for-word replacement. I have got a headache after 2 minutes of listening to it - above all, this monotonic robotic voice is depressing. You can get a general sense of what is being said, but you will not be wiser afterward.
Wow, I didn't expect the language to be that bad! From feedback I had in the past from colleagues, Yandex MT is supposed to be good in En-Ru, so I was hoping this could be useful. Maybe this will stick to the realm of non-critical cooking videos then...
Thanks for the language feedback!
| | | | | I can't quite believe I'm reading this | Sep 17, 2021 |
Philippe Locquet wrote:
Wow, I didn't expect the language to be that bad!
Well, I have to say I never expected to see a professional translator actually promoting MT on a ProZ forum!
| | | | Stepan Konev
Russian Federation
Local time: 04:34
English to Russian
| Here we go again | Sep 17, 2021 |
Victoria Britten wrote:
I never expected to see a professional translator actually promoting MT on a ProZ forum! What is wrong with simply sharing one's experience about translation tools? If you can't use MT, it does not mean that nobody can.
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expressisverbis
Portugal
Local time: 02:34
Member (2015)
English to Portuguese
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| Victoria, I'm sorry to let you know, and I speak for myself | Sep 18, 2021 |
When we see automatic translation as one of the subjects that is taught in academic translation courses, it is expected that translators provide information and share their experience on a translation site and/or another professional context.
I believe this is more about how translators (can) use technology (Machine Translation) as a tool.
For example, automatic translation can be a good asset for speeding up your translations, and for storing them because you can build your transla... See more When we see automatic translation as one of the subjects that is taught in academic translation courses, it is expected that translators provide information and share their experience on a translation site and/or another professional context.
I believe this is more about how translators (can) use technology (Machine Translation) as a tool.
For example, automatic translation can be a good asset for speeding up your translations, and for storing them because you can build your translation memories.
At the end of the day, we use the tools that we consider the most appropriate for doing our job... that's all.
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