Lex Fridman Interviews Volodymyr Zelenskyy

A three-hour interview with four language tracks – Ukrainian, English, Russian and mixed. I believe we live in a great time where language barriers are being erased before our eyes.<p>The work of Eleven Labs is certainly impressive and warrants respect.<p>Of course, there are certain technical imperfections. Besides language, AI still cannot reproduce the speaker&#x27;s breathing or diction flaws. I really hope these aspects will be overcome as well.<p>I haven’t seen any practical implementations of duplex TTS&#x2F;ASR, although some preprint research exists on this topic.<p>It would also be beneficial to see a large language model capable of voice-to-SSML conversion, in addition to the existing text-to-voice functionality.<p>Finally, I am hoping for more competitive solutions to emerge, particularly from companies like Play.ht, Fish Audio, and Deepgram, among others. This could drive innovation and improve overall quality.

- Insisted on conducting interview in russian despite both being able to speak English.<p>- Used AI to overdub &quot;translation&quot; using Zelensky&#x27;s own synthesized voice. Actually putting words into Zelensky&#x27;s mouth.<p>- Manipulated translation to replace Zelensky&#x27;s &quot;we hit people&quot; into &quot;slap everyone on the wrist&quot; while no such expression exist in russian.<p>- Moved that question to the very beginning (0:40 second) so every American listening will hear this first.<p>- Posted on Social media about &quot;innocent mistake&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;t.me&#x2F;s&#x2F;lexfridman&#x2F;329" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;t.me&#x2F;s&#x2F;lexfridman&#x2F;329</a><p>&quot;Hi everyone, I would like to fix a translation in the audio &#x2F; subtitle that better captures what President Zelenskyy was saying. I will delete this post once we find a good translation. The President said:&quot;<p>&quot;UPDATE #3 (FINAL): I went with 5: &quot;We cracked down hard on everyone&quot; to make intended meaning absolutely clear.&quot;<p>except &#x27;slap on the wrist&#x27; is still there and will be &quot;fixed&quot; after everyone who wanted to hear the interview already listened.<p>Good job agent Alexei Fedotov!