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Simplify-Then-Translate:Automatic Preprocessing for BlackBox Machine Translation
- xbmcuser 6y agoInteresting approach concept. I have tried using google translate and other machine translation on subtitles. Currently voice to text in many languages is very accurate so we are able to get subtitles of the spoken language quite accurately but machine translation of those to other languages are bad. The translation breaks when it comes to idioms or colloquial speech. Converting to simpler speech before translating should solve the problem of translation. That is what most human subtitle translators do they don't translate the exact words but more of what the speaker is trying to convey. This concept when used with normal forum posts on the web would probably give better results than the current machine translations when we use google translate plugin.