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Japanese Publishers Invest in AI Manga Translation Startup (informedainews.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] Potatos_are_not_friends 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 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