Economic Indicators: TV News Is Starting To Talk About Bankruptcy Again
In the aftermath of the 2008 recession, TV news began covering bankruptcy heavily – finally tapering off in mid-2014, with…
Spinmeisters Of Russia: "The Bone Collector" & Russia's Promoted Narrative Of An American Mercenary In Ukraine
Russian domestic media is a world filled to the brim with parallel narratives, some crafted domestically and others sourced from…
Visual Explorer: Nine Months Of Russia 1 & Russia 24 Translated Into English
Russian television news channels Russia 1 and Russia 24 offer a unique lens into how the Russian government is narrating…
Visual Explorer: All Of November 2022 Belarusian, Russian & Ukrainian Broadcasts Translated Into English
Yesterday we announced that all of the December 2022 Belarusian, Russian & Ukrainian broadcasts in the Visual Explorer have now…
Spinmeisters Of Russia: How Russian Spun Drone Footage Into A Story Of War Crimes Before Quickly Dropping It
At 8:10PM Moscow time on December 6th, Russian channel Russia 24 introduced what ordinarily would be a major story in…
A Behind-The-Scenes Look At The Visual Explorer's Fully Automated Transcription & Translation Workflow
Earlier today we announced that we have transcribed and translated all of the December 2022 broadcasts from 1TV, NTV, Russia…
Visual Explorer: All Of December 2022 Belarusian, Russian & Ukrainian Broadcasts Translated Into English
We are immensely excited to announce that to ring in the new year, we have completed translation into English of…
Spinmeisters Of Russia: How Russia Presents Itself As Investigator Of War Crimes By Others
In the parallel universe of Russian media, the narrative being presented to the Russian public is that it is Russia…
December 2022 Collection Of Time-Aligned Translated Transcripts For Russia 1 & Russia 24
As we continue to scale up our experiments with time-aligned translated transcripts in the Visual Explorer, we have translated the…
More Translation Alignment Complexities: Verb- Vs Negation-Centric Reordering
Order-mismatched languages pose a number of complications to translation alignment. One area of especial concern surrounds negation. Some languages place…
Mapping A Country Image From Global News Reports About COVID-19 Pandemic
The outbreak of the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has infected hundreds of millions of people worldwide and caused…
The Complexities Of Aligning Translations Between Order-Mismatched Languages
Earlier this week we unveiled our new work on high-precision alignment of English translations of Russian and Ukrainian television news…
Plant Pest Invasions, As Seen Through News And Social Media
Invasion by exotic pests into new geographic areas can cause major disturbances in forest and agricultural systems. Early response can…
infoDOCKET: GDELT Visual Explorer Launches Live Demo of Time-Aligned Translated Transcript
Gary Price's infoDOCKET mentions the new Visual Explorer work on translated transcription of television news. Read The Full Article.
Russian TV News Continues With Its False "Ukrainian Nazis" Narrative
Far from abandoning its false "Ukrainian Nazis" narrative, Russian state television news continues to use this characterization, with a single…
New Visual Explorer Demonstration Of Time-Aligned Translated Transcript
Leveraging our new high-precision timecode alignment of machine translation and transcription using Google's Speech-to-Text and Translation APIs, we are excited…
Experiments With In-Browser Speech Synthesis For Reading Translated Transcripts
As we continue to explore fully automated transcription + translation pipelines for Russian and Ukrainian television news, a natural question…
Tomorrow: New Visual Explorer Demonstration Of Transcript Translation With High Precision Timecode Support
Yesterday we unveiled a new demonstration of high-precision timecode alignment of machine transcription + translation of Russian television news broadcasts,…
Using Google Translate's HTML Support To Create High-Resolution Translated Google Speech To Text SRT Captioning
To date we have transcribed more than 42,000 Russian and Ukrainian language television news broadcasts through Google's Speech-to-Text API, with the…
What OpenAI's Whisper Teaches Us About The Future Of Large Language Models Like ChatGPT
While specialty AI models like OpenAI's Whisper ASR speech recognition and translation target a more technical and niche audience, they…
AI's Pivot To Fluency & Existential Non-Determinism Vs FBIS/BBCM, OSINT & The Centrality Of Fidelity In Translation
One of the most striking aspects of the IC's OSINT efforts over the years from a languages standpoint is the…
A Look Back On How 2022's AI Developments Brought Home The Perils Of AI's Focus On Fluency Over Fidelity
The past year has marked a watershed moment in the AI landscape, in which a range of applications have burst…
Jason Scott: The Whispering Episode
The Internet Archive's Jason Scott mentions on his latest podcast some of GDELT's work on exploring OpenAI's Whisper ASR on…
GDELT Video Series: Media As Data: A Look Back At A Decade Of TV News Analysis
The second episode of the GDELT Video Series! A look back on a decade of collaboration with the Internet Archive's…