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alexei_rudak

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About alexei_rudak

My name is Alex Rudak and I'm a CEO of Lingvanex company.

We do on-premise machine translation and voice transcription solutions based on AI for 100 languages. Visit (www.lingvanex.com) for more details.

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    Show HN: I open-sourced machine translation models for 12 rare languages

    You can test translation quality here https://lingvanex.com/translate/

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    Comment #40439468

    Thanks! But I'm still not in my dream, may be next year will be able to create technology that can do that with desired level of quality ))

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    Comment #40425682

    I would love to have my own service and technology to localise videos by using AI. All startups in that niche are growing so fast.

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    Comment #40425656

    I've trained LLM to make conversion from American English to British English and vise versa. To do that I've used 10k sentences for fine-tuning.

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    Comment #36961525

    I mean the case when tiny models can outperform LLM on certain tasks. For example storytelling, and only for Harry Potter world. Something very niche but with maximum quality that …

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    Ask HN: Small Language Models instead of LLM. Does it makes sense?

    Everyone is talking about Large Language Models like ChatGPT, LLAma, BLOOM etc that can do any task with text transformation. I did many tests of them for changing style, locale, g…

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    Comment #36151852

    Tried your service. Once I sent my question and got the answer it's not possible to enter another request in the search field. Possible a bug ?

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    Comment #36151745

    The more and more generated content by AI (audio, images, text, files etc) will turn Internet into trash.

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    Comment #36128650

    The community of dancers once I decided to learn Cuban Salsa. It was the best choice for me to feel happy.

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    Comment #36128631

    This is a period of uncertainty in the world, so buyers are waiting for lower prices

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    Comment #36128571

    Local translation is a good choice in case of privacy, but small language models can't offer a good translation quality like Chrome. Brave and Vivaldi browsers use on-premise trans…

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    Comment #36102387

    Just separate all critics in 2 parts: 1) Professionals in your sphere: Take as much critics from professionals in your sphere as you can. Sometimes you need to even pay for this. A…

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    Comment #36102334

    Wrap it as iOS or Android app with ads and send to Appstores. Even with integrated ads like Admob you can easily cover your expenses

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    Comment #36102318

    As I know it's impossible for current large language models to return "real-time" data, because you need to retrain it after every data update. And this will take time.

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    Comment #36102223

    I tried several of open LM to test what they can. The performance is very poor on PC with GPU and quality is far away to use them in commercial tasks. But to play for fun and chat …

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    Comment #31585268

    please write to alexeir@lingvanex.com

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    Show HN: Unlimited machine translation API for $200 / Month

    Hello, I made machine translation server for Ubuntu that can translate unlimited volume of text, HTML, files and audio via REST API. It works ultra-fast, translate millions of web-…

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    Show HN: Free Translation API in 100 languages for your projects

    Dear community! We created translation API in 100 languages and can offer FREE 100 million / characters of translation for your projects. Online demo is here https://lingvanex.com/…

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    Comment #22702868

    Right now it works such way. We use 11 languages with our translation API and Google API for others. It also depends on how much words you need to translate per request.

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    Comment #22664872

    Dear community, It was very long and difficult way to success to create my translator. Please read the story below first and then ask questions about my startup and why it's worth …