AI Book Translation

AI-powered translation and audiobook creation for important out-of-copyright books, making classic literature globally accessible.

Key Points:

• Target: 1000 most important books that are out of copyright
• Process:
  • Translate books into dozens of languages using AI
  • Create audiobooks for all translations
• Goal: Allow people to download great works of history from anywhere in the world in any language

Technical Aspects:

• Comparing different AI tools:
  • 11 labs
  • Anthropic
  • OpenAI
• Challenges:
  • Achieving high consistency in long-form book translation
  • Quality assurance for AI-generated translations

Project Motivation:

• Societally useful
• Interesting from a technological perspective
• Allows for deeper exploration of AI capabilities in translation and audio generation

Approach:

• Not focused on immediate business potential
• More about creating something useful and interesting
• Provides hands-on experience with AI tools, gaining real intuition for their capabilities