Haruki Murakami and the challenge of translating Japanese’s many words for “I”
New novel The City and its Uncertain Walls gives its two narrators different words for “I” in Japanese – a nuance that is ...
Business Insider7y
Japanese company has made an instant translation device for travellers
The device is called "ili" and at the moment it only works with English, Japanese, and Chinese but more languages will be added over time. It works without mobile data or WiFi so it could be used ...
NHK2mon
Using an AI translation system to generate English subtitles for live-streamed special news in emergencies
even for difficult-to-translate Japanese such as live news reports containing colloquial spoken language. Process for generating AI English subtitling service screen using the Japanese-English AI ...
MIT Technology Review21d
This manga publisher is using Anthropic’s AI to translate Japanese comics into English
Orange wants to bring manga to as many readers as possible—but some fans are not happy. A Japanese publishing startup is using Anthropic’s flagship large language model Claude to help ...
Windows Report3d
Microsoft improves the Real-Time Translation in Live Captions from over 44 languages into English
The new Real-Time Translation in Live Captions offers instant translation from over 44 languages to English. Here's how to ...
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Translation done by American who died in tsunami lives on to inspire
He asked him to translate a sentence in Ryotaro Shiba’s “Koan no taimatsu” (The torch of Koan) into English. It’s a short essay that the famed novelist wrote for a Japanese language ...