Hacker News with Generative AI: Translation

Oka.wiki (oka.wiki)
We are a non-profit organization dedicated to improving Wikipedia and other open platforms. We do so by providing monthly stipends to full-time contributors and translators.
Show HN: I made an AI tool to auto-translate and dub YouTube videos (vdspeak.com)
A Tiny Press Took a Big Risk on Experimental Books. It Paid Off (nytimes.com)
The British publisher Tilted Axis specialized in innovative translated literature. It won them major awards. Now they’re coming to the U.S.
Show HN: Translate Japanese manga and Korean manhwa with Chrome extension (pawakalabs.com)
The most powerful manga translator, quiz assistant and form data generator in the market. Also, powered by AI!
Launch HN: Cuckoo (YC W25) – Real-time AI translator for global teams (ycombinator.com)
Hey HN! We’re Yong Hee and Gunwoo from Cuckoo (https://cuckoo.so), a real-time AI translator for global sales, marketing, and support.
Show HN: Instantly Translate Manga – TranslateManga (translatemanga.net)
Professional manga and comics translation powered by AI. Support 50+ languages, preserve artwork quality, and translate instantly. Try our manga translator now!
European word translator: an interactive map (ukdataexplorer.com)
Enter one or two lower-case English words to see translations from Google Translate.
DeepSeek-V3-Turkish (ycombinator.com)
This project translates the English descriptions in the DeepSeek-V3 AI repository into Turkish.
Fair Pricing (kagi.com)
Never get lost in translation again. Today, we launch Kagi Translate, offering superior translations across 244 languages.
Show HN: Mandarin Word Segmenter with Translation (netlify.app)
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Launch HN: Pinch (YC W25) – Video conferencing with immersive translation (ycombinator.com)
Hey HN! I'm Christian, and my co-founder Keyu and I are building Pinch (www.startpinch.com), a virtual conferencing platform with translation that mimics your voice and synchronizes your lips in real-time to make you sound and appear as a native speaker in over 15 languages.
How Translation Works, Book Title Edition (scalzi.com)
As any translator will tell you, translating a piece of fiction isn’t about simply transcribing words one-to-one from one language to another. It’s about capturing a vibe — making sure the tone and intent of the piece come through in words when a mere transliteration would fail.
Translation using deep neural networks (part 1) (aamster.github.io)
In this article, I’ll introduce language modeling using deep learning and will focus on the problem of translation.
Show HN: Google Translate for Code (codecompare.cc)
Show HN: i18n-ai-translate (github.com/taahamahdi)
Leverage ChatGPT, Gemini, or Ollama for seamless translation of localization files. Supports directories of nested translation files. Requires i18next-style JSON files.
Meta takes us a step closer to Star Trek's universal translator (arstechnica.com)
Back in 2023, AI researchers at Meta interviewed 34 native Spanish and Mandarin speakers who lived in the US but didn’t speak English. The goal was to find out what people who constantly rely on translation in their day-to-day activities expect from an AI translation tool.
A web app to read Latin texts with inline translations (adi.earth)
Show HN: Languine – Open-Source AI-Powered CLI for App Localization (languine.ai)
Translate your application with Languine CLI powered by AI.
Bitextual: A tool for bilingual text alignment (github.com/wydengyre)
Bitextual takes translated (preferably by humans) epubs in two languages, and outputs a bilingual book in HTML.
DeepL Voice: Real-time voice translations for global collaboration (deepl.com)
Connect with colleagues, customers, and partners everywhere—without language barriers. Unlock global collaboration for your business with accurate AI voice translations.
'It gets more and more confused': can AI replace translators? (theguardian.com)
A Dutch publisher has announced that it will use AI to translate some of its books – but those in the industry are worried about the consequences if this becomes the norm
Kagi Translate (kagi.com)
Today, we’re introducing Kagi Translate. It’s not revolutionary - it’s simply a better translation service.
Ask HN: Real-time speech-to-speech translation (ycombinator.com)
Has anyone had any luck with a free, offline, open-source, real-time speech-to-speech translation app on under-powered devices (i.e., older smart phones)?
GPT-based translator for large pptx files (ycombinator.com)
because DeepL and Google have tough limits on size (30Mb for DeepL, 10Mb for Google), which makes their solution practically useless for many professionnal cases.
Advice on Reading Homer in Translation (talesoftimesforgotten.com)
The Iliad and the Odyssey are often regarded as being among the greatest works of world literature and many people have an interest in reading them—but how does one go about starting? Which translations are the best? In what manner should one read them?
Open-source tool translates and dubs videos into other languages using AI (github.com/jianchang512)
Show HN: Live in-browser AI transcription and translation (github.com/supabase-community)
DeepL's LLM Outperforms Google Translate, ChatGPT-4, and Microsoft (deepl.com)
Tao Te Ching translated by Ursula Le Guin (1997) (github.com/nrrb)
Benjamin Thorpe translated almost all Old English texts (2016) (thijsporck.com)