Since 2012, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has installed an automatic simultaneous lecture translator to translate lectures for foreign students and for hearing-impaired students.
Similar to subtitles in films, students can read the lecture in real time on a computer screen. Additional challenges result as a lecturer does often not complete sentences, has an unclear pronunciation, or does not pay attention to punctuation. Significant improvements were reached through neural networks, a part of artificial intelligence. Scientists also continue to work on achieving adequate translation of technical terms, and on the automatic adaption to new languages.
Language Coverage
German
(Latin),
English
(Latin),
French
(Latin),
Spanish; Castilian
(Latin)
