Talk:Community Wishlist/Wishes/Machine translation of audio sources

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Very similar wish

Please see this more detailed wish: A tool for auto-transcription to speed up the creation of TimedTexts subtitles for videos on Commons

Are these about the same thing basically and if not, could you please specify?

Also I think this is about Wikimedia Commons, not directly Wikipedia which uses files on/from WMC.
Prototyperspective (talk) 20:39, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

Please at least link the above in the wish or can I add it? Prototyperspective (talk) 23:09, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

Not a bad suggestion in itself. AI is becoming more and more precise when it comes to translation. However, depending on the language, there is still a risk of major translation errors. They often work well when one of the languages ​​is English. However, the technology often fails with other pairings, such as "Zulu to Japanese". So I think we should wait a few more years for the technology. RaveDog (talk) 18:12, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

Good point, but I think the solution would be to only enable it at first for large languages for which these tools work well like English to Spanish. One could later add new languages first in a different way that e.g. require more checking and having, it's best to implement this first on smaller scale and then see what the issues are so these can be addressed as or before it's implemented/adopted at larger scale. Prototyperspective (talk) 20:37, 4 August 2024 (UTC)