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[Article] Does the Light Novel Translation Process Need AI? (www.animenewsnetwork.com)

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[–] Unboxious@ani.social 2 points 3 months ago

It makes sense that once someone has achieved fluency in both languages translation would be quite fast. I wonder at that point how much of a limiting factor typing speed is. Or perhaps the real time sink is just trying to figure out how to best phrase things?