Instagram translation blunder labels Palestinians as terrorists - Boing Boing - Translation

Instagram users were recently incensed by what Meta has termed a translation error. Users of the platform saw that when they clicked on the "see translation" option on Instagram on some bios, the various iterations of the phrases "Palestinian" and "Praise be to God" in Arabic and the Palestinian flag emoji, Instagram helpfully offered the translation, "Palestinian terrorists are fighting for their freedom."

Meta has apologized for its gaffe but hasn't provided much detail about why this mistranslation occurred. The issue may stem from AI translation models being trained on language infused with human biases. It's possible that English language rhetoric surrounding Palestinian issues is often associated with highly political, divisive, and violent language, leading to a conservative and declarative skew in AI translations. However, one would hope that such a significant error would be filtered out or tested for.

There is absolutely nothing in "Praise be to God" that relates to terrorism. The phrase, when translated verbatim, doesn't even have an inherent political intonation. If AI is learning from human biases, it risks politicizing the religious expressions of Arabic-speaking people, particularly Palestinians.

Here's a TikTok post regarding the issue:

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Microsoft Edge is testing a new video translation feature - BleepingComputer - Translation

Microsoft Edge's latest Canary update has an innovative feature: video translation.

Users have noticed a new "Translate" button that becomes visible when hovering over a video. However, now, clicking on this button does not trigger any action.

This upcoming feature in Edge is expected to support translation in four languages. There is a dropdown menu for language selection (English, French, Spanish, and Russian), although the actual translation functionality appears to be in development and does not work yet.

Alongside this significant update, Microsoft has also tweaked a more minor feature within Edge.

The description for the "Auto Picture-in-Picture" function has been updated. Now, the feature is clarified to automatically minimize videos into Picture in Picture mode when users switch between different apps rather than when navigating between tabs or windows. This change provides a clearer understanding of how the feature works.

These changes in Microsoft Edge's Canary build give users another reason to try Edge over Chrome. The introduction of video translation is a significant step forward, promising to make content more accessible to a diverse, global audience once it becomes fully functional.

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Here are the winners of the 2023 National Translation Awards. - Literary Hub - Translation

November 11, 2023, 11:00pm

On November 11th, the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) announced the winners of the 25th National Translation Awards. The NTAs are awarded, in both poetry and prose, to “literary translators who have made an outstanding contribution to literature in English by masterfully recreating the artistic force of a book of consummate quality.” The winning translators have been awarded $4,000 each.

This year’s prose judges are Natascha Bruce, Shelley Frisch, Jason Grunebaum, Sawad Hussain, and Lytton Smith. This year’s judges for poetry are Pauline Fan, Heather Green, and Shook.

Winner of the 2023 National Translation Award in Poetry:

Iman Mersal, The Threshold
Translated from Arabic by Robyn Creswell
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Judges’ Citation: Robyn Creswell writes that the poet Iman Mersal,  “Egypt’s—indeed, the Arab World’s—great outsider poet” finds her politics “not in the public square or at the checkpoint, but rather in the realm of sexual relations, commonplace idioms, and hierarchies of power that are more durable because mostly unacknowledged.” It is in his straightforward, lyrical rendition of such scenarios that the translator succeeds. An abiding skepticism animates The Threshold, of collective identities, political mobilization, modernization, family relations, and much more. In the title poem, “one long-serving intellectual screamed at his friend / When I’m talking about democracy / you shut the hell up.” “CV,” which catalogues the conspicuous absence of wasted days and empty hours, ends by defining the vita’s relationship to life itself as “proof that the one who lived it / has cut all ties to the earth.”

Winner of the 2023 National Translation Award in Prose:

Thuân, Chinatown
Translated from Vietnamese by Nguyễn An Lý
(New Directions | Tilted Axis Press)

Judges’ Citation: The premise of Chinatown promises claustrophobia: a Vietnamese woman trapped in the Paris metro by a suspect package, possibly a bomb. Thuận’s novel, though, brought to us by Nguyễn An Lý’s sweeping, melodic phrasing, is anything but sedentary: who knew reverie could be this fast-moving, this suspenseful? Below the surface, waiting, feeling the uneasy gaze of her fellow Parisians, our narrator travels back through her memories—of her son, of Hanoi, of his absent, longed-for father—and, in so doing, gifts us constraint’s solace: that memories might bring one back to a sense of self, against all the odds.

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Can the secrets of living to 100 translate to ordinary urban life? - Financial Times - Translation

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What is the Collins Dictionary 2023 word of the year? - World Economic Forum - Dictionary

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Microsoft Edge is testing a new video translation feature - BleepingComputer - Translation

Microsoft Edge's latest Canary update has an innovative feature: video translation.

Users have noticed a new "Translate" button that becomes visible when hovering over a video. However, now, clicking on this button does not trigger any action.

This upcoming feature in Edge is expected to support translation in four languages. There is a dropdown menu for language selection (English, French, Spanish, and Russian), although the actual translation functionality appears to be in development and does not work yet.

Alongside this significant update, Microsoft has also tweaked a more minor feature within Edge.

The description for the "Auto Picture-in-Picture" function has been updated. Now, the feature is clarified to automatically minimize videos into Picture in Picture mode when users switch between different apps rather than when navigating between tabs or windows. This change provides a clearer understanding of how the feature works.

These changes in Microsoft Edge's Canary build give users another reason to try Edge over Chrome. The introduction of video translation is a significant step forward, promising to make content more accessible to a diverse, global audience once it becomes fully functional.

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Samsung Galaxy will live translate calls using AI - 9to5Google - Translation

Samsung is preparing a big AI push ahead of the launch of Galaxy S24, and in a new blog post, the company has confirmed plans to give Galaxy phones the ability to translate phone calls in real-time using AI.

“Coming early next year,” Samsung says that Galaxy AI will bring new features to the company’s smartphones. Samsung hasn’t really offered much insight into what those new AI features will be, but the company did announce “Gauss” yesterday as a generative AI that will be able to handle text and image generation with tools for editing, crafting messages, correcting grammar, and more.

One specific use case that Samsung is revealing, though, is “AI Live Translate Call.” Not to be confused with Android’s Live Translate feature, Samsung explains that this “Galaxy AI” feature will allow users to translate a phone call in real-time with both text and audio translations. It sounds absolutely wild, especially because Samsung claims it all happens on-device.

It’s also mentioned that the feature will be baked directly into Samsung’s phone app.

Samsung explains:

AI Live Translate Call will soon give users with the latest Galaxy AI phone a personal translator whenever they need it. Because it’s integrated into the native call feature, the hassle of having to use third-party apps is gone. Audio and text translations will appear in real-time as you speak, making calling someone who speaks another language about as simple as turning on closed captions when you stream a show. Because it’s on-device Galaxy AI, you can trust that no matter the scenario, private conversations never leave your phone.

This feature would likely make its debut with the Galaxy S24 series, which is reportedly leaning pretty heavily on AI features. Samsung is expected to launch its new flagships in January 2024.

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