Sunday, January 05, 2025

AI translation & text-to-speech (podcast)

podcast translation & TTS by a Polish company ElevenLabs; translations available in 32 languages

Free Text to Speech & AI Voice Generator | ElevenLabs


This podcast: from random mix of 3 languages spoken, translated to all of 3 languages,
and then audio generated in all of them with preserving natural sound of voice!
Close captioning is also available in all of the languages.

The original name of Lex's podcast was "AI" podcast. Name well deserved!

 #456 – Volodymyr Zelenskyy: Ukraine, War, Peace, Putin, Trump, NATO, and Freedom | Lex Fridman Podcast

Volodymyr Zelenskyy: Ukraine, War, Peace, Putin, Trump, NATO, and Freedom | Lex Fridman Podcast #456 - YouTube

"Volodymyr Zelenskyy is the President of Ukraine.
This episode is available in English, Ukrainian, and Russian.
Captions and voice-over audio tracks are provided in English, Ukrainian, Russian,
and the original mixed-language version, with subtitles available in your preferred language.
To listen to the original mixed language version, please select the English (UK) audio track audio track. The default is English overdub."


There was another recent example of such translation of another excellent podcast! 

Javier Milei: President of Argentina - Freedom, Economics, and Corruption | Lex Fridman Podcast #453 - YouTube


excellent book mentioned in the podcast:

In the first book written for the layperson about the natural history of language, linguistic professor John McWhorter ranges across linguistic theory, geography, history, and pop culture to tell the fascinating story of how thousands of very different languages have evolved from a single, original source in a natural process similar to biological evolution



a keyboard, also mentioned in the podcast:






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