DeepL brings live subtitles for meetings and conversations
The Cologne-based AI start-up DeepL is expanding its product range. DeepL Voice is designed to translate not only text, but also the spoken word.
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DeepL now not only translates text, but also spoken words. The Cologne-based AI company has announced its latest product, DeepL Voice. It is designed to recognize 13 spoken languages and display a translated text "in real time".
The new translation tool is to be used in remote meetings and face-to-face conversations and will be able to recognize several spoken languages simultaneously.
DeepL Voice supports spoken German, English, Japanese, Korean, Swedish, Dutch, French, Turkish, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Italian. Further languages are to follow. All 33 languages that are already available in the text version of the DeepL translator are supported for translated text output.
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Better translation quality promised
DeepL uses its own language model, which it claims offers better translation quality than Google's translator, ChatGPT-4 and Microsoft.
"Real-time language translation" was the translation provider's next big goal, but recognition was more difficult than with text input. "Sentences are sometimes not completed, pronunciation is often unclear, the latency must not be too high and much more – all of this can lead to mistranslations and a poor user experience," says DeepL founder Jaroslaw Kutylowski.
DeepL is one of the most successful German start-ups. Following a financing round in 2022, DeepL is a so-called "unicorn" –, i.e. a company with a market valuation of more than one billion US dollars.
Since then, DeepL has doubled its workforce to around 900 employees. At the beginning of the year, the Cologne-based company opened an office in the USA. It is located in Austin, Texas, where Tesla also has its headquarters.
DeepL presented DeepL Voice at its new Dialogues conference in Berlin. For the time being, DeepL Voice is only available to corporate customers via the sales team. It is not yet included in the regular subscription.
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