Portraits in Witchcraft: How live image translation works in Google Translate

Here’s a charming & illuminating look at how Otavio Good and team devised Word Lens and how it actually works. [Update: Lots of additional details are in a post from Otavio.]


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One thought on “Portraits in Witchcraft: How live image translation works in Google Translate

  1. That really is charming, and not only this video but their whole 20% project . What a super-smart way to humanize a large corporation, especially one that as it’s grown larger has attracted more than its share of media and regulatory skepticism and scrutiny. I absolutely take them at their word that this 20% project is done at their own initiative, but Google execs ought to be delighted at the result.

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