@KevinQHLin: IntroducingViolin — an Open-source Video Translation Skill. Video is the dominant medium on the internet, yet most high…
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Violin is an open-source video translation skill that combines speech recognition, LLM translation, and speech synthesis into a seamless pipeline, supporting multilingual ASR, personalized translation, and interactive chat with video content.
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IntroducingViolin — an Open-source Video Translation Skill. Video is the dominant medium on the internet, yet most high-quality content (lecture, talk, podcast) is locked behind a single language, leaving global audiences behind. So we built Violin: a video skill that combines speech recognition, LLM translation, and speech synthesis into one seamless pipeline. Demo: https://violin-ai.com Blog: https://together.ai/blog/violin-open-source-translation-skill… GitHub: https://github.com/shang-zhu/violin… Key Features: High-quality multilingual ASR & Translation & TTS. Personalize translation & voice (turn an academic talk into something children can follow). Chat with the video — ask any questions grounded in the video. Support Web app, CLI, and Agent skill Fully open-source under MIT. Built with the wonderful @ShangZhu18 and advised by @james_y_zou ! All features powered by @togethercompute . Try it and let us know what you think!
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