Breaking Language Barriers: How HeyGen’s AI is Revolutionizing Multilingual Content Creation

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Could you imagine social media creators learning all the languages in the world just to shoot content for a global audience? Well, with HeyGen AI not even translators or voice actors are necessary to attract audiences from all over the world while continuing to utilize and enhance your brand for promotional purposes. Today I would like to talk about HeyGen AI, which is great news for creators, marketers, business owners, and anyone interested in using AI for personal or professional purposes.

HeyGen AI is an innovative tool that merges AI and video content. From using in-built AI avatars to automatically translating and dubbing personalized videos into other languages while preserving voice timbre and adapting lip movement, HeyGen helps create high-quality content in minutes (Langer, 2023). This reduces time and costs and improves the product experience for international customers and subscribers. The scope of this AI is not limited to one area of application and soon we will see it implemented in almost all daily processes.

One of the potential and most promising applications of this platform is in the field of content creation. Since the first day after the release of this neural network, I started to hear from bloggers about the significant impact of the new AI tool on potential content creation opportunities. One such blogger is @linguamarina, who has been actively highlighting on her Instagram and YouTube the results of implementing this AI-powered platform in her social media. Since introducing this feature, Marina Mogilko, in addition to her main 8 million YouTube channel in English, has also launched 2 channels in Arabic and Spanish. She gained 258,000 and 286,000 subscribers respectively in just a couple of months. Not a minute of her time was spent on creating the new videos as all the content was taken from her main channel and translated by HeyGen AI into different languages. New subscribers have also started following her on other social networks, further scaling her income and popularity. Thus, without financial severe expenses for professional translation, a blogger pays a subscription to the HeyGen platform and translates up to 60 videos of her face per month into other languages.

Therefore, I was interested in trying this AI tool myself. In the demo version of the website, it is possible to translate one video for free. I translated a video with my face and visible movement of my lips from English to German language, and in two days I got the result, which amazed me. The fact that AI has altered lip movements is barely noticeable to the naked eye. Despite the small imperfections, the video looks realistic. I’m sure that in time this platform will be improved and there will be no trace of such flaws, but the results are already exciting. I don’t need a permanent video translation now, since I don’t create any content on my social networks, and I still hope that my language learning has not been in vain, but if I ever think about a blogger career, I will definitely use this AI tool!

Watch this video to see HeyGen’s capabilities: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/U4cIssgL3VE

References

Langer, B. (2023, September 27). Can you trust AI video translation? Our linguists put it to the test. Retrieved from VeraContent: https://veracontent.com/mix/ai-video-translation-tool/

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Art and AI Walk into a Christmas Market

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The idea for this article came to me after watching an interview with my favorite artist Ellen Sheidlin, who is the ideologist of a new trend in art – survirtualism (Dud, 2023). In this post, I am trying to understand, how to ‘invent’ art in collaboration with artificial intelligence (AI). I will look at the Stable Diffusion model used by Ellen Sheidlin and talk about my own experience of integration with this tool.

Stable Diffusion is an AI model that generates images based on prompts or input images and represents a breakthrough in picture generation, in terms of speed and quality (Medium, 2023). Ellen’s art is figurative and based on anatomy rather than abstraction. She used to collect collages. Nowadays, she draws an idea on a tablet and then uses Stable Diffusion to fill in the lines and explore the variations the program offers her. Once she gets a satisfactory interpretation, she refines the picture to keep her style and then transfers the result to the canvas. In this way, her craft remains personal and creative but integration with AI is added. Her vision is of co-authorship and of not necessarily abandoning the old but adapting to “the eternal addition of the new”.

My interest in Ellen’s work and motivation to experiment with Stable Diffusion software stems from a desire to explore the intersection of AI and artists. Therefore, to expand my understanding and creative boundaries, I decided to experiment with the web interface of several web pages offering access to the Stable Diffusion model. I used the ‘Stable Diffusion Online’ and ‘Hugging Face’ platforms, which offer free access to image generation.

Since Christmas is around the corner, I decided to write a prompt about Christmas markets in the Netherlands. The initial request gave quick results, however, I decided to complicate my prompt to get a visualization I couldn’t find on the internet. I added that everything should be in pink colors and asked for a Christmas market on the beach. The results were impressive. I see the potential to use this AI system for my studying and everyday needs. However, I agree with Ellen that for artists it serves more as a mockup. The results obtained on the ‘Stable Diffusion Online’ platform (pictures 1 – 3) were better than ‘Hugging Face’ (pictures 4 – 6) in terms of quality and playback speed. The Stable Diffusion model is perfect for specific requests, bringing to life the most unique fantasies.

In conclusion, I strongly believe that AI is a powerful tool for inspiration. Art and AI may compete, but in this competition, a new market is born. I think that AI can be a tool that can help unlock creative potential. I would encourage everyone to explore Ellen’s work and experiment with Stable Diffusion to realize the full potential of this creative work.

References

Dud, Y. (2023, September 06). Ellen Sheidlin – global art star from Russia. Retrieved from YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TEKiX9UoY4

Medium. (2023, September 06). Understanding Stable Diffusion: The Magic Behind AI Image Generation. Retrieved from https://medium.com/@amanatulla1606/understanding-stable-diffusion-the-magic-behind-ai-image-generation-e834e8d92326

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