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Comment by schainks

17 hours ago

Try Gemini live in a multi lingual environment. It can pick out speakers and live translate to you. Truly underrated for its capabilities.

I actually did (was going to travel internationally), and it wasn't as useful as you'd think. I would be talking to someone, and in the background someone else would be talking, and it would translate both people.

Only worked in a 1:1 in a quiet place. Still, can't complain for free.

  • As sister comments have pointed out, I find that it's very much dependent on the phone you're using. If it can't even show me a waveform then I don't think it's going to be able to tease out any sort of speech

  • "Only worked in a 1:1 in a quiet place"

    well then its not model problem

    • It's not a model problem, but it is a SW problem. It should be able to distinguish nearby people from people farther away and give me options to set a threshold on who to include.

Not the same, but related: Gemini is great for querying text in another language, it provides really cogent, useful responses with just enough source language quotes to be able to reference the source text effectively.