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Saturday, 17 October 2026

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Netflix's Spike airs AI-dubbed Dutch with literal errors like 'Hier je gaat'

A top-10 children's series in the Netherlands shows AI dubbing reaching young audiences in a smaller language, with calques parents can hear. Netflix had not replied to RTL Nieuws.

RTL Nieuws

Tech

Scotland funds AITEAL to record 500 hours of spoken Gaelic for AI

Lack of recorded speech is the main block on Gaelic transcription and translation tools. A community-run corpus from island speakers, with the data kept by a Gaelic organisation, is the piece those tools have been missing.

Scottish Government

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