babelbit.ai
@babelbit
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Developing low-latency speech-to-speech translation on Bittensor
London, UK
Joined September 2025
I just read about an exciting translation project [ https://t.co/kgghZCxn4K] using synthetic speech to make up for the data shortfall for languages other than English. I did the same thing 12 years ago, building an ASR-based search for BBC Wales: https://t.co/4eAGwNAJ2I
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Head over to Yuma's X account at 4pm (UK) / 11am (ET) / 8am (PT) Matthew will be the guest on Yuma's Subnet Spotlight. https://t.co/jWXfhcBqZ5
@babelbit @yumagroup @webuildscore
#machinelearning #ai #llms @matthew_karas
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Our website has had a major revamp. - It now has a ticker showing live information. Currently this includes the most recent winning miner and the price of TAO, but we will be expanding this to include links as we add more in-depth content - the main page now scrolls down to
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Matthew's appearance on the Ventura Labs podcast is now up! https://t.co/mAt3Kd3DD9
Ventura Labs Ep. 68 – Matthew Karas Matthew (@matthew_karas), Founder of Babelbit (@babelbit) Timestamps 01:27 — Introduction 2:09 — Origin of Babelbit Name 3:36 — Matthew's Background in Linguistics 6:05 — Early Career at BBC 8:31 — Noise Elimination Using GANs 10:46 —
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What's the quickest way you have found to explain Bittensor to newbies, outsiders, partners, spouses, children, the elderly, friends, investors, HMRC (or IRS) etc? The OTF "about page" is pretty thorough, but it is what Medium calls an "11-minute read". My usual elevator pitch
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Coming soon... (Monday 3rd Nov) Matthew was a guest on the Ventura Labs podcast this week. I'm not sure whether Grant will have got a word in. Hopefully this will be the first of many, and the rest of the team will get to have their say. This podcast focused on the origin
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SOTA projects in all aspects of speech and language are converging on Multi-Modal LLMs as a single tool for what used to be separate processes run in series: recognition, translation and synthesis. I thought it was an exaggeration, but the more we dig...
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MEET THE TEAM 2: Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Mica Ménard We totally lucked out when Mica decided to give up Bittensor mining, to help build our subnet. His background is an uncanny match for what we are doing. He studied linguistics in France and Germany, before
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MEET THE TEAM:1 - Chief Scientist Introducing Josh Greifer, whose career tracks the history of innovations in low-latency audio and language processing. Check out his bio page: https://t.co/Iyj4TvCm1d
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Result! 25% increase in prediction accuracy! Babelbit has been fully operational for just a couple of days, and our incentivised open-source competition (on the Bittensor ecosystem), has delivered the first concrete increase in predictive capability: The last time I tested our
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Combining AI research and mass media deployment, I’ve spent most of my career developing technology to foster communication. If you know the old anecdote about the interpreter translating Bismarck's speech and “waiting for the verb” you know the pain which has led to my new
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