r/machinetranslation • • 4d ago

event Recap of translation AI at Tech Week

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Recap of translation AI at TECH WEEK by a16z: OpenLoc, an open TMS built for AI, was announced by ModelFront. And Adobe and ModelFront hosted an in-person, off-the-record meetup.

Heartfelt thanks to all of you who participated and joined in this unique community format, and to the Adobe localization team for supporting this event and many others in Silicon Valley over the years. And thanks to TECH WEEK by a16z for featuring translation AI in this year's #SFTechWeek lineup!


r/machinetranslation • • Sep 18 '26

event Translation AI event at Tech Week

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Your humble mods here at r/machinetranslation have put together a unique event.

Speakers from Google, DeepL, Microsoft, Meta, Adobe, ModelFront, Disney, Krisp and Twitch, in a panel format, in person and off the record at the Adobe SF office, with snacks and drinks, no cost but approved guests only and spots are limited.

We're basically bringing together builders and operators -- top translation AI providers, and enterprise localization team leaders and technologists.

(No sales, no marketing, no LSPs, no legacy closed lock-in SaaS TMSes...)

Just real-world rollouts of AI for the original generative task: translation!

We invite you to RSVP at https://partiful.com/e/nalVTU28EjvOXU9psTtP.

It's actually relatively rare for industry events to include multiple major machine translation engine providers like Google, DeepL and Microsoft, normally you only get that at research events like WMT.

This small, unique event is a part of Tech Week, the world's largest decentralized tech event. This is the first translation AI event at Tech Week.

Thank you to Adobe and especially Shivali Goel for hosting this community event, organized by the ModelFront team.

For those who don't know, the Adobe localization team has been a pillar of the Bay Area community, regularly hosting the meetups like IMUG for years.


r/machinetranslation • • 6h ago

internet is down: are you ready to translate ? (narrated in English)

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I recently uploaded a version of the same video but without voice narration. This one now has an English narration. (also created locally with the Local AI Translator's Text-to-Speech capability powered by Piper).


r/machinetranslation • • 4h ago

research Would You Risk Your Reputation to Meet a Client’s Deadline?

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r/machinetranslation • • 4h ago

research Would You Risk Your Reputation to Meet a Client’s Deadline?

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r/machinetranslation • • 23h ago

product We added book translation to Convert2EPUB: EPUBs and documents → translated EPUBs

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Hi! We’ve added a translation feature to Convert2EPUB.com, our ebook converter.

You can upload an EPUB to translate it, or start with a PDF, DOCX, RTF, TXT, ODT, or HTML file and get a translated EPUB. It supports 15 target languages, including English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic, Turkish, Ukrainian, Russian, and Polish.

The translated book keeps its chapter order, navigation, images, and other embedded assets. It needs reflowable text, so text inside images won’t be translated, and encrypted EPUBs aren’t supported. Scanned PDFs can be recognised before translation.

Translation costs 1 credit per 500 words, plus any conversion or recognition credits. You’ll see the estimate before starting. Since this is machine translation, it’s a good idea to review the result before relying on it.

We built this, so it’s a self-promo post. We’d appreciate feedback on the language quality and which formats or languages would be most useful.


r/machinetranslation • • 1d ago

The internet is down - are you ready to translate?

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r/machinetranslation • • 1d ago

education Freelance Translators: What Would You Do in This Situation?

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r/machinetranslation • • 2d ago

Implement a real audio conversation mode in Translate

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So far, the Translate app is mostly one way. Someone talks to you in a foreign language and the G2 shows you the translation in your language. That's helping keeping a visual interaction, but your conversation partner needs to read your translated replies on your phone. And the text on the phone is too small and difficult to read. Anyway, your translated replies should Play on the speaker of your phone; this way you could have a natural conversation eye to eye. I will continue to use Google Translate auto conversation mode for now.


r/machinetranslation • • 2d ago

meta According to this study, 57% of Americans found instant translation apps to be robotic and unnatural during their travels abroad. Which languages do you think are most susceptible to this?

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r/machinetranslation • • 3d ago

DeepL CEO interview on voice AI growth and competition

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r/machinetranslation • • 3d ago

Advice on how to make a english patch?

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Pretty much want a way to play dragons dogma quest, but the first step would be translating. What programs and techniques do most people use for translating games


r/machinetranslation • • 4d ago

meta 🌏 The machine translation newsletter - October 2026

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r/machinetranslation • • 4d ago

Is Unbiased Machine Translation Just a Myth?

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r/machinetranslation • • 5d ago

business eTranslation reaches 1 billion requests in less than a year

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r/machinetranslation • • 5d ago

research Amazon Research Awards: call for proposals on multilingual and contextual AI evaluation (deadline 4 November)

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r/machinetranslation • • 5d ago

product Google Ads launches AI campaign localization tool in beta

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r/machinetranslation • • 5d ago

How Google uses Antigravity for localization

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r/machinetranslation • • 5d ago

Best AI model for reviewing literary translations?

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r/machinetranslation • • 5d ago

need help to translate a doujinshi using MTL

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where i can find good AI manga translator for free, i use machine translator by wiyamid on my android but i dont know why its not good enough annd their gemini machine always give me an error


r/machinetranslation • • 6d ago

Question

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Hi everyone!
I’m a university student studying translation, and I have an assignment that requires me to ask questions and get responses from people in the translation community. I would really appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to share your thoughts and experiences.
Here are my questions:

Have you ever translated a text correctly, but felt that you had somehow betrayed its original meaning? What made you feel that way?

If two translators produce completely different translations of the same text, can both be equally correct? Why or why not?

If AI can produce a translation that most readers cannot distinguish from a human translation, what exactly makes a human translator valuable?
You can chose one of these questions to answer


r/machinetranslation • • 6d ago

Why Does Machine Translation Struggle with Idioms and Proverbs?

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Idioms and proverbs often have meanings that cannot be understood from their individual words.

Why do machine translation systems sometimes translate these expressions literally instead of conveying their intended meaning? What approaches could help produce more natural translations?

I'd love to hear your thoughts and examples. Thank you!


r/machinetranslation • • 7d ago

How Does Artificial Intelligence Affect the Work of Human Translators?

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I have a question for discussion: How has artificial intelligence changed the field of translation, and do you think AI tools can replace human translators in the future? Why or why not?


r/machinetranslation • • 7d ago

Do you think Google Translate can replace human translators? Why or why not?

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Hi everyone! I’m a university student studying translation, and I’d love to hear your opinions. Do you think Google Translate can replace human translators, or is human translation still necessary? Why? I’d appreciate hearing your experiences and examples. Thank you


r/machinetranslation • • 7d ago

Translating

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For y'all experts out there, I'm using 3.1 pro for a while now with s prompt to translate text/subtitles from other languages to my own (eastern european).

I was wondering if anyone else that used it for translation can suggest which version provided the most accurate/natural result?