Friday, September 15, 2023, 3:10 PM
Within a few hours, social networks are filled with videos that demonstrate the unthinkable: the Spaniards know how to speak in perfect English and we have been doing it for decades. By using artificial intelligence, different applications translate that have been made popular in recent days, voices from one language to another by giving a button.
This has opened the ban and they are already raining a multitude of jokes and re -interpreted memes, extracts of political speeches or iconic scenes of Cinema and television that have been passed on to English. It is the most recurring language, but there are many more options: from Arabic to Japanese, via Vietnamese, Georgian or also Spanish particial languages, such as Galician or Catalan.
That has been the anger that these applications collapsed with the number of users who wanted to try the service. Although artificial intelligence has been one of the most important conversation problems in recent months – our places what future this technology entails – this time the sense of humor has been imposed.
But not everything is jokes. We will have to wait time to assess the implications that you can have for guilds such as benders and broadcasters or the consequences that can cause in the legislative and artistic area. Experts urge this type of tool to regulate and demand transparency, because the questions do not stop increasing: Is our voice Timbre of us? Can the ‘sound rights’ be claimed? What happens to our personal information?
In the meantime we have collected a few representatives of Spain more Castiza, now with an accent ‘British’.
Eugenio
The absolute king of the gas stations, for many the most original joke counter of the twentieth century in Spain, will be for an inexhaustible source of English reforms. It is more than likely that we are bored quickly, but we can dream: why would this huge material not discover sort of Southampton and give a second life of triumphs to the humorous Barcelona?
The 2018 documentary about his figure revealed us a turbulent man, unwanted times, but like the author of a unique and supplier of a thousand good times. Of course, so far never in English, twenty years after his death. We can remember your own joke: “Are you dominating English?” “Diu … well, when it is short and leaves …”
The Fary
The best -known and dear taxi driver of Spain was called José Luis Cantero, but with automatic translation it almost looks like a Paul Simon in Madrid. In the video the origin of the song and the concept of the Mandanga explains, but we do not know whether they have been prepared by our limits to understand the deep meaning of the term, with or without translation.
In this case we can also see the difficulties of AI when different voices are mixed and sounds appear – in the fragment of recreation – even generate a very unpleasant white noise. The Fary Vive, who would say some, and still against these technologies.
Lola Flores
Lola Flores has also been re -interpreted by this technology, although to be honest her voice was already synthesized – in Spanish – for that discussion about a well -known beer brand. The AI has a great ability to find what makes the Timbre of people, but there will still be a lot – the possibility to implement accents, for example if we wanted to go from English to Spanish with a maño, Murcian or Extremadura -accent. Are we going to a world where someone from Córdoba can listen to Brad Pitt as if he were his neighbor?
Fernando Fernán Gómez
One of the most recognizable and respected voices of the recent history of Spain are, because the middle ear immediately identify the bell of Fernando Fernán Gómez. Now in English we see exactly how the machine takes the times to make a perfect dabynchronization.
The Renaissance man who, a member of a origin connected to the most living arts, had left us very diverse in various disciplines, strongly recommended the vast majority. That origin of artists still lives and, with the example of the recommended film about the house that inhabited – together with the Great Emma Cohen -, directed by her granddaughter in 2021, ‘Journey to Somere’.
It seems that we only caress the surface of what new artificial intelligences will be able to do. We will certainly witness an avalanche of comparable applications that will ask endless questions on the table. We currently have the memes.
