Japanese Publishers Invest in AI Manga Translation Startup - eviltoast

Japanese publishers, including Shueisha and Shogakukan, have invested $4.9 million in Mantra, a startup leveraging AI to accelerate manga translation.

I don’t read many mangas, so I don’t know how good or bad the translations are, but I thought the news was interesting at least.

  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    AI translation has gotten extremely good. It even replaces the text into English in nearly the same style/font!

    I actually used my translator on my phone to read a Japanese manga when I was traveling. It needed another level of human revision, but I was able to get most of the story.

    • x4740N@lemm.ee
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      4 months ago

      If you where reading manga with a translator app why not go with a scanlation release instead

      If you want to read manga in Japanese then I suggest learning Japanese