ai suite make speech translation
Meta's latest AI suite makes speech translation more seamless and expressive
Back in August, Meta unveiled its multimodal AI translation model, SeamlessM4T, which supports nearly 100 languages for text and 36 for speech. With an updated "v2" architecture, the tech giant is now expanding on this tool to make conversational translations more spontaneous and expressive -- the latter a missing key to an authentic conversation across languages. The first of the two new features is "SeamlessExpressive" which, as you can tell by the name, ports your expressions over to your translated speech. These include your pitch, volume, emotional tone (excitement, sadness or whispers), speech rate and pauses. Considering how translated speeches had always sounded robotic until now, this breakthrough is potentially a game-changer -- both in our daily lives and also in content production.