Technology Magazine December 2019 | Page 44

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broaden access to its app to those speaking underserved languages .
With current levels of technology , however , machines cannot quite match the human touch . An approach involving humans sidesteps some of the issues faced by machine translation . For instance , a human worker can helpfully edit a transcript to remove unnecessary pauses , false-starts and other disfluencies , as well as easily discern when different people are speaking . This is the direction taken by Unbabel , a translation startup
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