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Translating the Paul Graham video to Croatian works surprisingly well. (As a non-native speaker) several bits of the Japanese transcription were just Japanese-
by cyphar 3y ago
Translating the Paul Graham video to Croatian works surprisingly well.
(As a non-native speaker) several bits of the Japanese transcription were just Japanese-sounding noise, and the prosody was completely all over the place in the bits that were actually Japanese. The dub does get across most of the things being talked about, but I wouldn't consider it an acceptable dub (even for most of the bits where it is actually in Japanese).
I wonder if reason is that the dubbing works better between more similar languages and struggles when dealing with disparate languages. I don't speak Chinese or Korean, but it would be interesting to see how well their dubs are.
Can you do another video into Japanese, to see if it's just an issue with the Paul Graham video? Also, how about translating from another language to English?
- bemmu 3y agoGood idea, added a Putin video translated from Russian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSkjQJcqaFo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSkjQJcqaFo
- peddling-brink 3y agoI love the slow whispered "Thaaank Yooooouuuu" at :10.
- fivecour 3y agoHere's another example: Steve Jobs on death | Walter Isaacson and Lex Fridman (EN->JP): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YiJLDhcWSI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YiJLDhcWSI Maybe it does better on longer videos, but as someone who is fairly well-versed in Japanese this one was not a good result either. There is also a bit of wonkiness in this one, where in the dub Lex says some of Walter's lines and vice-versa, and at one point both of them repeat verbatim the same exact translated phrase which doesn't correspond to anything said in the original.