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Kaustubh Shivshankar Shejole, Sourabh Deoghare, Pushpak Bhattacharyya
Assessing and Improving Punctuation Robustness in English-Marathi Machine Translation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.09725
January 16, 2026 at 12:08 PM
monikawalker.bsky.social
Google AI Releases TranslateGemma: A New Family of Open Translation Models Built on Gemma 3 with Support for 55 Languages

Google AI has released TranslateGemma, a suite of open machine translation models built on Gemma 3 and targeted at 55 languages. The family comes in 4B, 12B and 27B parameter…
Google AI Releases TranslateGemma: A New Family of Open Translation Models Built on Gemma 3 with Support for 55 Languages
Google AI has released TranslateGemma, a suite of open machine translation models built on Gemma 3 and targeted at 55 languages. The family comes in 4B, 12B and 27B parameter sizes. It is designed to run across devices from mobile and edge hardware to laptops and a single H100 GPU or TPU instance in the cloud. TranslateGemma is not a separate architecture.
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January 16, 2026 at 9:10 AM
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Google AI Releases TranslateGemma: A New Family of Open Translation Models Built on Gemma 3 with Support for 55 Languages

Google AI has released TranslateGemma, a suite of open machine translation models built on Gemma 3 and targeted at 55 languages. The family comes in 4B, 12B and 27B parameter…
Google AI Releases TranslateGemma: A New Family of Open Translation Models Built on Gemma 3 with Support for 55 Languages
Google AI has released TranslateGemma, a suite of open machine translation models built on Gemma 3 and targeted at 55 languages. The family comes in 4B, 12B and 27B parameter sizes. It is designed to run across devices from mobile and edge hardware to laptops and a single H100 GPU or TPU instance in the cloud. TranslateGemma is not a separate architecture.
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January 16, 2026 at 9:10 AM
cscl-bot.bsky.social
Kaustubh Shivshankar Shejole, Sourabh Deoghare, Pushpak Bhattacharyya: Assessing and Improving Punctuation Robustness in English-Marathi Machine Translation https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.09725 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.09725 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.09725
January 16, 2026 at 6:30 AM
koitaky.bsky.social
When it comes to erotic stories about my favorite pairing, novels far surpass manga. I want to read ObiKaka works from around the world, but machine translation can’t fully convey the author’s emotional intent. I keep trying, yet I always end up returning to Japanese novels, and that’s my dilemma.
January 16, 2026 at 3:44 AM
spiritusnox.bsky.social
#6: The Ancient Magus' Bride - Midsummer Pilgrimage (2025)

okay but seriously give me the Chise dating game. Make a game where you have the option of kissing any (Philomela) or all (Philomela) of her classmates (Mela) at the college (Mela) while having to manage Elias' emotions-
The Ancient Magus' Bride - Midsummer Pilgrimage (2025) with 7.6 hours played on Steam A fairly short, simple VN. Solid story penned, I believe, by original series mangaka Kore Yamazaki. Being a self-contained side story has its benefits and drawbacks - the original protagonists ultimately come together nicely, but also simply aren't as complex as longer running characters from the main series, and also can't match the fanservice value of seeing faves from the series. Production values are an unfortunately mixed bag - the anime designs make for gorgeous and highly polished sprites, and the soundtrack (mostly reused from the anime) is very good, but basically every other aspect of presentation is pretty visibly cheap - minimal voice acting, limited foley, fairly limited backgrounds and only the crudest sorts of camera pans for animation. Most disappointingly, the localization is functional but quite crude, almost certainly lightly edited machine translation, often making small but noticeable flubs or outright mistakes with subjects, proper nouns, or character voice. All told, a fun enough side story for die-hard Magus Bride fans like myself, but not remotely essential.
January 16, 2026 at 2:42 AM
paper.bsky.social
[24/30] 118 Likes, 40 Comments, 2 Posts
2601.09012, cs․CL | cs․AI, 13 Jan 2026

🆕TranslateGemma Technical Report

Mara Finkelstein, Isaac Caswell, Tobias Domhan, Jan-Thorsten Peter, Juraj Juraska, Parker Riley, Daniel Deutsch, Cole Dilanni, Colin Cherry, Eleftheria Briakou, Elizabeth Nielsen, ...
We present TranslateGemma, a suite of open machine translation models based on the Gemma 3 foundation models. To enhance the inherent multilingual capabilities of Gemma 3 for the translation task, we employ a two-stage fine-tuning process. First, supervised fine-tuning is performed using a rich mixture of high-quality large-scale synthetic parallel data generated via state-of-the-art models and human-translated parallel data. This is followed by a reinforcement learning phase, where we optimize translation quality using an ensemble of reward models, including MetricX-QE and AutoMQM, targeting translation quality. We demonstrate the effectiveness of TranslateGemma with human evaluation on the WMT25 test set across 10 language pairs and with automatic evaluation on the WMT24++ benchmark across 55 language pairs. Automatic metrics show consistent and substantial gains over the baseline Gemma 3 models across all sizes. Notably, smaller TranslateGemma models often achieve performance comparable to larger baseline models, offering improved efficiency. We also show that TranslateGemma models retain strong multimodal capabilities, with enhanced performance on the Vistra image translation benchmark. The release of the open TranslateGemma models aims to provide the research community with powerful and adaptable tools for machine translation.
January 16, 2026 at 12:07 AM
onedeuxtriseigo.nullpo.dev
Open source machine translation models to support access across language barriers where there is a shortage of editors or contributors to support those communities (ex to avoid the situation where a user pretended to speak scots and defaced all of scots wiki)

diff.wikimedia.org/2023/06/13/m...

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MinT: Supporting underserved languages with open machine translation
Our vision is a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Machine translation has the potential to help us achieve that vision by enabling more people to…
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January 15, 2026 at 9:17 PM
dededaio.bsky.social
im currently in the process of editing finicky machine translated subtitles i found on the corners of the internet and it seems at least like the last 26 episodes got better translation in the dub from what i compared and contrasted, they probably used japanese scripts as basis for them
January 15, 2026 at 7:45 PM
215poundsonthemoon.bsky.social
Translation: still no American reporter with balls to be found. It takes an Irishman to confront the Goebbels-Leavitt propaganda machine.
January 15, 2026 at 7:13 PM
gilibug.bsky.social
Sorry if you know this, but: there’s an easy auto-translate on Bluesky. On the three dot menu in the bottom right corner you can hit “translate”. It’s machine translation, so there are howlers and weird mistakes, but it’s generally okay and a helpful tool.
January 15, 2026 at 4:19 PM
watagashimitai.bsky.social
i was stuck on basically just saying pretty basic shit to my oshi all the time bc idk how to express myself in japanese that well, and using machine translation is scary bc it's probably not gonna translate over nuance well so.............. if it's in english i might just end up writing whole essays
January 15, 2026 at 3:43 PM
mattknight.bsky.social
The Law of the People's Republic of China on Assemblies, Processions and Demonstrations, promulgated in October 1989, a year in which nothing happened.

#USChinaConvergence
MACHINE TRANSLATION: Chapter Two: Application and Permit for Assemblies, Parades and Demonstrations Article 7. To hold an assembly, procession, or demonstration, an application must be submitted to the competent authority and permission obtained in accordance with this law. The following activities do not require an application: (a) Celebrations, commemorations, and other activities held by the State or as decided by the State; (ii) Assemblies held by state organs, political parties, social organizations, enterprises and institutions in accordance with the law and their organizational charters. Article 8. There must be a person in charge for any assembly, procession, or demonstration. For assemblies, processions, and demonstrations that require an application in accordance with this law, the person in charge must submit a written application to the competent authority five days prior to the date of the event. The application shall specify the purpose, method, slogans, number of participants, number of vehicles, type and quantity of sound equipment to be used, start and end times, location (including assembly and dispersal points), route, and the name, occupation, and address of the person in charge. Article 9. Upon receiving an application for an assembly, procession, or demonstration, the competent authority shall notify its head of its decision to permit or deny the event two days prior to the requested date. If permission is denied, the reasons shall be stated. Failure to notify within the stipulated time shall be deemed as permission. If a sudden event necessitates a temporary request to hold a collective event, march, or demonstration, the competent authority must be notified immediately. Upon receiving the report, the competent authority shall immediately review and decide whether to grant or deny permission. Article 10. When an application is made to hold an assembly, procession, or demonstration to resolve a specific issue, the competent authority, …
January 15, 2026 at 3:36 PM
d3rrick.bsky.social
I have read that this was the result of a test run of an early machine translation programme, English-Russian. Several decades before Google Translate. Another version gives the answer as:

"The vodka is strong but the meat is rotten".
January 15, 2026 at 3:31 PM
mofuawake.es
also is very funny that most of those "skills" are just stuff that we already have with other names and WAY more efficient

"Copy the text of this image" you mean a regular OCR model?

"Translate this" so a Machine translation one

"Count all the cats in this photo" that's just image recognition
January 15, 2026 at 11:21 AM
toldtheworld.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Machine translation:
Behold, the advantage cuts both ways, it's true,
For it slices the inspired as it may,
As much as it cuts the dull and blue,

Machine translation:
Fortune smiles, for we're graced this day,
A woman of brilliance, in past's rue,
Not plugged into our facile age's sway.

2/2
January 15, 2026 at 10:53 AM
toldtheworld.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Machine translation:
To Sor Juana, woman of inspired quill,
Whose afflicted verses, deeply weighed and pained,
Crowned with fervent love, timeless contained,
To aged realms they carry, linger still.

Machine translation:
To Sor Juana, who witnessed dawn's advance,
Shadow and light, a single cord […]
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January 15, 2026 at 10:51 AM
veratai.bsky.social
@m150mmmm.bsky.social Good day. i hope all is well ^^
i was wondering if something unusual is possible in a fallout 4 mod. i would like to consult with you, and maybe even commission such a mod.

i am sorry if there's a language barrier, but i do not trust machine translation enough on this subject
January 15, 2026 at 10:20 AM
jin-404.bsky.social
Ah, right—there’s something I want to say to my friends overseas.
I’m not forcing anyone, but if you’re curious about my posts, feel free to translate them and read them. You can also freely use machine translation on the notes written in my drawings.
January 15, 2026 at 10:10 AM
older.bsky.social
see, that's where machine translation misses the nuances of human communications. it actually said "that sounds rad I want to read it!"
January 15, 2026 at 10:06 AM
misokatsuhaumai.bsky.social
literally! i think its the same thing as those fake communism countries end up doing fascism and/or national-capitalism cuz in actuality the current usage of genAI only has profits in mind, in stead of support/care, which would be more like LLM for machine translation (as shitty as it tends to be)🫠
January 15, 2026 at 9:04 AM
strongverrie.bsky.social
こんにちは! ロイテル のすべての話が大好きです。 機械翻訳を使用しています。 私は今、Elinをプレイしていますが、他のゲーム（主にファームゲーム）の投稿もしています。 お会いできて嬉しいです😊

Hi! I love all ロイテル's stories. Using machine translation. I'm playing Elin now, but I'm also keeping a post of other games (mainly farm games). Nice to meet you. 😊
January 15, 2026 at 7:19 AM
regi-oth.bsky.social
フォローありがとうございます、こちらElin関連ではロイテルへの劣情や冒険者ｘロイテルばっか語ってますのでそれでも良ければ！！

（Machine translation）팔로우 감사합니다. 여기서는 Elin 관련해서 로이텔에 대한 욕정 이야기나 ‘모험자×로이텔’ 얘기만 잔뜩 하고 있어서, 그래도 괜찮으시다면 환영합니다!!
January 15, 2026 at 6:50 AM
gitrogatog.bsky.social
Histoire was listed as an influence on demon king chronicle which won sylvies coveted 16th best game ever award and her #2 goty for 2025 so not translating it is tantamount to an attack on kitties everywhere
machine translation of https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%83%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB_(%E3%82%B2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0) https://bsky.app/profile/sylviefluff.bsky.social/post/3lxltadfzwc2m https://bsky.app/profile/sylviefluff.bsky.social/post/3mar4ug2be225
January 15, 2026 at 6:33 AM