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1. Oct 13
   AI translation is fluent now, but human checkers remain essential

   BBC reports that Google says people now translate one trillion words a month with Google Translate, while direct sales of machine translation outside general AI subscriptions were estimated at $1.4bn last year. OKA (Open Knowledge Association), a Swiss non-profit, ran a Wikimedia-funded study covering 119 articles, 10 language pairs and more than 1,000 hours of translator work, finding that 27% of AI-generated text was still corrected before publication, three-quarters of those corrections were errors the AI introduced, and 5 to 6% of errors changed the meaning of the original. Legal and medical translators cite AI rendering "Le demandeur" (the plaintiff) as "the requester" and translating the Greek letter μ as milli rather than micro, a thousandfold dosage error; CNRS researcher François Yvon says the way these systems function makes 100% reliability hard to imagine.

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2. Oct 6
   Google rolls out major Pixel Buds update with Live Translate

   Google is rolling out firmware release_6.144 for the Pixel Buds Pro, Pixel Buds Pro 2, and Pixel Buds 2a. The update adds Dynamic Active Noise Cancellation for the Pro 2, Tap to Mute, sleep-based auto-pause using Pixel Watch sensing, and Enhanced Live Translate; Gemini voice controls were added through a companion app update last month.

   9to5Google · 🔥 0

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