The machines are taking over… YouTube incorporates subtitle translations
YouTube just recently added automatic subtitle translations, though like most everything out of the Google universe, it’s still in “beta”. Subtitles and annotations were added as recently as the end of August to the videosharing service. The interpreter robot seems to work pretty well, at least in the example video where I tried Italian to [...]
Save an endangered word, redefine the dictionary
I’ve always found it curious that the Americans have no centralized institution which establishes the end-all be-all of language. I mean, something along the lines of the German Rechtschreibungen, grammars that all of which incorporated a rather catastrophic spelling reform mandated by an official agreement between German-speaking countries in 1996. Or the Real Academia Española [...]
