For international non-English channels, the just-relaunched TV News Explorer allows searching in both the original native language ASR transcripts and machine-generated English translations, allowing both seamless search across the more than 150+ languages and dialects represented in the TV News Archive and native language search when precision is needed for words whose meanings are obscured by translation. This means that when searching the "IRINN" channel, since it is in Persian, all of your keywords must be in Persian, whereas when searching the "IRINN (Translated)" channel, all of your keywords should be in English, since you are searching the English machine translations of the original Persian transcripts. No data is used to train or tune any model. Remember that some channels are highly multilingual, with broadcasts spanning multiple languages in a given day, so you will need to include keywords in multiple languages when searching those channels.
What if we search the English word "Trump" in the native-language Persian IRINN ASR transcripts? We get 2,040 total mentions:
Instead, the Persian word for Trump is "ترامپ". If we search for this word, we get 93,225 results:
This matches the 93,422 results we get from searching "Trump" in the English translation of IRINN (the slight increase is due to excerpts in other languages that mention Trump in languages other than Persian that the translated archive catches):
