Living definition
What is Qwen3.8-LiveTranslate?
Multimodal & Vision-Language ModelsAI & Agents
- Kind
- Model
- Released
- 2026-10-22
- Cohort
- model-001
Description
What it is and what it is for
AI-assisted draft · independently checked
Machine translation is the use of computers to translate text or speech from one language to another, though language is complex and such tools often lack depth and semantic precision. Simultaneous interpretation means translating in real time, without pausing to listen to the source first. Qwen3.8-LiveTranslate-Flash-Realtime (the name Alibaba Cloud gives the model in its documentation) is an AI model built for this task. Alibaba Cloud's documentation describes it as a multilingual real-time audio and video translation model that accepts audio and images and produces text and audio, for voice communication and video translation.
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Release record
Published description
Published on
- Cohort
- model-001
- Root
- sha256:c61dbbd5f64d5ec9e0219936a943311d34d95406a09965d8d58c10742e63b78b
- Entry
- sha256:0c1dc7787d926c7e783b55f911b754167de7a55b979eafee66c7923b415e0a07