3 ms·

Is this possible to do smoothly with languages that have an extremely different grammar to English? If you need to wait until the end of the sentence to get the

Is this possible to do smoothly with languages that have an extremely different grammar to English? If you need to wait until the end of the sentence to get the verb, for instance, then that could take more than five seconds, particularly if someone is speaking off the cuff with hesitations and pauses (Or you could translate clauses as they come in, but in some situations you'll end up with a garbled translation because the end of the sentence provides information that affects your earlier translation choices). AFAIK, humans who do simultaneous interpretation are provided with at least an outline, if not full script, of what the speaker intends to say, so they can predict what's coming next.

thangalin 2y ago
> If you need to wait until the end of the sentence to get the verb, for instance, then that could take more than five seconds I meant a five-second delay after the speaker finishes talking or the user taps a button to start the translation, not necessarily a five-second rolling window.
Gathering6678 2y ago
> AFAIK, humans who do simultaneous interpretation are provided with at least an outline, if not full script They are usually provided with one, but it is by no means necessary. SI is never truly simultaneous and will have a delay, and the interpretor will also predict based on the context. Which makes certain languages a bit more difficult to work with, e.g. Japanese, sentences of which I believe often have the predicate after the object, rather than the usual subject-predicate-object order, making the "prediction" part harder.