{"id":2350,"date":"2026-07-24T23:19:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T23:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/akinatilla.com\/substack-post\/we-may-be-the-last-generation-that-needs-a-common-language\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T04:07:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T04:07:45","slug":"we-may-be-the-last-generation-that-needs-a-common-language","status":"publish","type":"sstack-posts","link":"https:\/\/akinatilla.com\/tr\/substack-post\/we-may-be-the-last-generation-that-needs-a-common-language\/","title":{"rendered":"We May Be the Last Generation That Needs a Common Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"captioned-image-container\">\n<figure><a class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/%24s_!Alo-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F47037463-bdaa-451b-a6a1-60617c47a114_1672x941.png\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"image2-inset image2-full-screen\">\n<div class=\"image-link-expand\">\n<div class=\"pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M\"><\/button><button type=\"button\" class=\"pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M\"><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>A few years from now, an ordinary business discussion may look like this:<\/p>\n<p>Five people sit around a table. None of them speaks the others&rsquo; languages. Yet the conversation never stops; nobody passes a phone across the table or waits for a sentence to appear on a screen. Each person hears the others in their own language, in a natural voice and with almost no delay. The jokes land, objections are understood, figures are confirmed and an agreement is signed.<\/p>\n<p>As they leave the table, one participant asks a question that had seemed unnecessary until then:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did we actually hear the same conversation?<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<hr>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"button-wrapper\" data-attrs='{\"url\":\"https:\/\/akinatilla.substack.com\/subscribe?\",\"text\":\"Subscribe now\",\"action\":null,\"class\":null}' data-component-name=\"ButtonCreateButton\"><a class=\"button primary\" href=\"https:\/\/akinatilla.substack.com\/subscribe?\"><span>Subscribe now<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<hr>\n<\/div>\n<p>The components of this scene are no longer confined to old science-fiction films. US-based Google and Meta, South Korea&rsquo;s Samsung, Alibaba&rsquo;s Qwen ecosystem in China and Germany-based DeepL are advancing real-time speech translation through different products and research programmes. The ambition is no longer limited to replacing words with words. New systems are attempting to preserve a speaker&rsquo;s tone, pace, pauses and, in some cases, manner of expression. The technology is moving into phones, headphones, video calls and infrastructure that can be embedded inside other services.&sup1;&sup2;&sup3;&#8308;&#8309;<\/p>\n<p>We can debate which company will do it best. The more interesting question, however, is not who wins the race, but what human communication becomes when the race is over.<\/p>\n<p>The day we no longer need a common language, we will not simply have removed a barrier.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We will also have changed the conversation itself.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<hr>\n<\/div>\n<h2>The invisible work of a common language<\/h2>\n<div class=\"captioned-image-container\">\n<figure><a class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/%24s_!3hqw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8908f83e-7841-40d6-a15b-ec7ee434bc5b_1672x941.png\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"image2-inset\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/%24s_!3hqw!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8908f83e-7841-40d6-a15b-ec7ee434bc5b_1672x941.png\" width=\"728\" height=\"409.5\" data-attrs='{\"src\":\"https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/8908f83e-7841-40d6-a15b-ec7ee434bc5b_1672x941.png\",\"srcNoWatermark\":null,\"fullscreen\":false,\"imageSize\":\"normal\",\"height\":819,\"width\":1456,\"resizeWidth\":728,\"bytes\":1723774,\"alt\":null,\"title\":null,\"type\":\"image\/png\",\"href\":null,\"belowTheFold\":true,\"topImage\":false,\"internalRedirect\":\"https:\/\/akinatilla.substack.com\/i\/208395377?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8908f83e-7841-40d6-a15b-ec7ee434bc5b_1672x941.png\",\"isProcessing\":false,\"align\":\"center\",\"offset\":false}' class=\"sizing-normal\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-link-expand\">\n<div class=\"pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M\"><\/button><button type=\"button\" class=\"pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M\"><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>A shared language has never been a neutral pipe through which words simply pass.<\/p>\n<p>When people speak outside their native language, they tend to become more deliberate. They think before completing a sentence, notice from the other person&rsquo;s expression that something has not been understood and try again. They may not be as funny, forceful or elegant as they would like.<\/p>\n<p>That limitation can be exhausting. It also constantly reminds both sides that they are speaking to someone whose experience of the world is different from their own.<\/p>\n<p>Language barriers slow communication and often make it unnecessarily difficult. But they also introduce a small hesitation.<\/p>\n<p>When real-time translation removes that hesitation, conversations will become faster and easier. Doctors will speak directly with patients, teachers with students, craftspeople with foreign customers and small businesses with buyers on the other side of the world. Being unable to spend years learning another language may no longer exclude someone from international life to the extent it does today.<\/p>\n<p>That would be a profound improvement. Reducing the language barrier could loosen the grip that a small number of global languages currently hold over the circulation of talent, knowledge and opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>But not all friction is harmful.<\/p>\n<p>When two people no longer need to take even one step towards each other in order to communicate, they may assume the distance between them has disappeared. The machine may have brought their words closer while the people themselves remained exactly where they were.<\/p>\n<div>\n<hr>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"button-wrapper\" data-attrs='{\"url\":\"https:\/\/akinatilla.substack.com\/subscribe?\",\"text\":\"Subscribe now\",\"action\":null,\"class\":null}' data-component-name=\"ButtonCreateButton\"><a class=\"button primary\" href=\"https:\/\/akinatilla.substack.com\/subscribe?\"><span>Subscribe now<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<hr>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Different versions of the same conversation<\/h2>\n<div class=\"captioned-image-container\">\n<figure><a class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/%24s_!i2EK!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9ca7affc-78f9-4b68-8b9a-957559eef57e_1536x1024.png\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"image2-inset\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/%24s_!i2EK!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9ca7affc-78f9-4b68-8b9a-957559eef57e_1536x1024.png\" width=\"728\" height=\"485.5\" data-attrs='{\"src\":\"https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/9ca7affc-78f9-4b68-8b9a-957559eef57e_1536x1024.png\",\"srcNoWatermark\":null,\"fullscreen\":false,\"imageSize\":\"normal\",\"height\":971,\"width\":1456,\"resizeWidth\":728,\"bytes\":1933614,\"alt\":null,\"title\":null,\"type\":\"image\/png\",\"href\":null,\"belowTheFold\":true,\"topImage\":false,\"internalRedirect\":\"https:\/\/akinatilla.substack.com\/i\/208395377?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9ca7affc-78f9-4b68-8b9a-957559eef57e_1536x1024.png\",\"isProcessing\":false,\"align\":\"center\",\"offset\":false}' class=\"sizing-normal\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-link-expand\">\n<div class=\"pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M\"><\/button><button type=\"button\" class=\"pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M\"><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Most translation tools currently present us with a single output. A sentence goes in and another sentence comes out.<\/p>\n<p>Translation in the future is unlikely to remain that simple.<\/p>\n<p>Once a system knows the listener&rsquo;s age, country, profession, cultural habits and the context of the conversation, there is no technical reason to translate the same sentence identically for everyone. A formal statement could become more direct for one listener and more diplomatic for another. An idiom might be replaced with its local equivalent. Humour could be reconstructed. Harshness could be reduced, while uncertainty might be made to sound more definite.<\/p>\n<p>Some of this would count as better translation. A good human interpreter does not mechanically move every word from one language to another either. Meaning, context and intention matter.<\/p>\n<p>The difference begins with visibility.<\/p>\n<p>We normally know when a human interpreter is in the room. We remember that another person is making judgements between what was said and what was heard. When the system becomes invisible, its intervention may become invisible too.<\/p>\n<p>If an executive says, &ldquo;We are not enthusiastic about this proposal,&rdquo; will the other side hear, &ldquo;We are rejecting the proposal,&rdquo; or, &ldquo;There are several points we need to reconsider&rdquo;? If three listeners at the same table receive three culturally adapted versions, does one shared conversation still exist?<\/p>\n<p>This is not a minor matter of word choice. In diplomacy, law, healthcare, education and commerce, decisions often depend not only on what was said, but on how it was said.<\/p>\n<p>Once a system begins correcting tone rather than preserving it, it is no longer merely translating.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It is preparing the version of the speaker that reaches the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>When the language barrier disappears, meaning will not be the only thing left. We will also have to ask who arranged that meaning for us.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<hr>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Translator or invisible editor?<\/h2>\n<div class=\"captioned-image-container\">\n<figure><a class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/%24s_!pamz!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F37a96bd4-9ff1-4bc4-b3da-77d170786026_1672x941.png\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"image2-inset\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/%24s_!pamz!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F37a96bd4-9ff1-4bc4-b3da-77d170786026_1672x941.png\" width=\"728\" height=\"409.5\" data-attrs='{\"src\":\"https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/37a96bd4-9ff1-4bc4-b3da-77d170786026_1672x941.png\",\"srcNoWatermark\":null,\"fullscreen\":false,\"imageSize\":\"normal\",\"height\":819,\"width\":1456,\"resizeWidth\":728,\"bytes\":1535152,\"alt\":null,\"title\":null,\"type\":\"image\/png\",\"href\":null,\"belowTheFold\":true,\"topImage\":false,\"internalRedirect\":\"https:\/\/akinatilla.substack.com\/i\/208395377?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F37a96bd4-9ff1-4bc4-b3da-77d170786026_1672x941.png\",\"isProcessing\":false,\"align\":\"center\",\"offset\":false}' class=\"sizing-normal\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-link-expand\">\n<div class=\"pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M\"><\/button><button type=\"button\" class=\"pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M\"><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Human speech is untidy. Sentences are abandoned halfway through. People change their minds, choose the wrong word, speak too sharply or use ambiguity to conceal what they really think.<\/p>\n<p>One aim of emerging translation systems is to reduce that disorder. They are designed to produce speech that is more fluent, natural and comfortable to hear.<\/p>\n<p>Yet some of the disorder is information.<\/p>\n<p>A hesitation may reveal that a person is uncertain about the answer. Tension in the voice may expose an objection hidden by polite language. A silence that lasts slightly too long can carry more meaning than the sentence that follows it. A system that perfects the conversation may accidentally erase those signals.<\/p>\n<p>A translated voice could deliver an uncertain statement with confidence. An expression considered rude in another culture might be softened. A joke that the system fails to recognise could become a serious sentence, while a serious objection might be reformulated as a courteous suggestion.<\/p>\n<p>The conversation may proceed more smoothly as a result.<\/p>\n<p>Smoothness, however, is not the same as accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>One day, people may no longer fully know how their own words sound in other languages. A political leader speaking to dozens of countries simultaneously could be heard as a culturally adapted version in each one. A company may believe it has given every customer the same explanation while the translation layer changes the tone for different individuals.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps important public statements will eventually require not only an official transcript, but an <strong>official translation behaviour<\/strong>: which expressions were translated directly, which were adapted and where the tone was altered.<\/p>\n<p>Today, we ask whether a video has been edited.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, we may ask whether the conversation was edited while being translated.<\/p>\n<div>\n<hr>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"button-wrapper\" data-attrs='{\"url\":\"https:\/\/akinatilla.substack.com\/subscribe?\",\"text\":\"Subscribe now\",\"action\":null,\"class\":null}' data-component-name=\"ButtonCreateButton\"><a class=\"button primary\" href=\"https:\/\/akinatilla.substack.com\/subscribe?\"><span>Subscribe now<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"button-wrapper\" data-attrs='{\"url\":\"https:\/\/akinatilla.substack.com\/p\/we-may-be-the-last-generation-that?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share\",\"text\":\"Share\",\"action\":null,\"class\":null}' data-component-name=\"ButtonCreateButton\"><a class=\"button primary\" href=\"https:\/\/akinatilla.substack.com\/p\/we-may-be-the-last-generation-that?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share\"><span>Share<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<hr>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Language equality will not happen automatically<\/h2>\n<div class=\"captioned-image-container\">\n<figure><a class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/%24s_!UJd8!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe3748789-65ca-400e-91d8-b71063a86d3a_1672x941.png\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"image2-inset\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/%24s_!UJd8!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe3748789-65ca-400e-91d8-b71063a86d3a_1672x941.png\" width=\"728\" height=\"409.5\" data-attrs='{\"src\":\"https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/e3748789-65ca-400e-91d8-b71063a86d3a_1672x941.png\",\"srcNoWatermark\":null,\"fullscreen\":false,\"imageSize\":\"normal\",\"height\":819,\"width\":1456,\"resizeWidth\":728,\"bytes\":2074680,\"alt\":null,\"title\":null,\"type\":\"image\/png\",\"href\":null,\"belowTheFold\":true,\"topImage\":false,\"internalRedirect\":\"https:\/\/akinatilla.substack.com\/i\/208395377?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe3748789-65ca-400e-91d8-b71063a86d3a_1672x941.png\",\"isProcessing\":false,\"align\":\"center\",\"offset\":false}' class=\"sizing-normal\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-link-expand\">\n<div class=\"pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M\"><\/button><button type=\"button\" class=\"pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M\"><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>At first glance, real-time translation appears capable of ending the hierarchy between languages. If everyone can speak in their own language, why should a small number of languages continue to dominate international life?<\/p>\n<p>That possibility is real. An entrepreneur, researcher or producer may no longer be excluded from global networks simply because they do not speak English. People may be able to enter a wider world without abandoning their own language.<\/p>\n<p>But it would be a mistake to assume that translation technology will serve every language equally.<\/p>\n<p>Languages with large speaker populations and extensive digital records provide far more material for developing and evaluating these systems. Data scarcity, dialect variation and culturally dependent meaning remain serious challenges for less documented languages. Research continues to find substantial limitations even in powerful models when translating into low-resource languages, particularly where implicit meanings and culturally specific terms are involved.&#8310;<\/p>\n<p>Technology could therefore help preserve smaller languages while also standardising them.<\/p>\n<p>When a system does not sufficiently understand a regional dialect, it may convert the speaker&rsquo;s words into a more dominant, supposedly clearer variety. Over time, people may begin changing their pronunciation, vocabulary and sentence structure so that machines understand them more reliably.<\/p>\n<p>We already do this on a smaller scale when speaking to navigation systems, voice assistants and automated telephone services. Adapting our speech to the machine can gradually become part of natural conversation.<\/p>\n<p>The language barrier would not have disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>It would simply have changed direction. In the past, people moved towards each other&rsquo;s languages. In the future, languages may move towards forms that machines find easier to process.<\/p>\n<div>\n<hr>\n<\/div>\n<h2>The end of language learning?<\/h2>\n<div class=\"captioned-image-container\">\n<figure><a class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/%24s_!L8nH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc034ecf8-1d1b-45c0-ad4f-a27843935fa6_1672x941.png\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"image2-inset\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/%24s_!L8nH!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc034ecf8-1d1b-45c0-ad4f-a27843935fa6_1672x941.png\" width=\"728\" height=\"409.5\" data-attrs='{\"src\":\"https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/c034ecf8-1d1b-45c0-ad4f-a27843935fa6_1672x941.png\",\"srcNoWatermark\":null,\"fullscreen\":false,\"imageSize\":\"normal\",\"height\":819,\"width\":1456,\"resizeWidth\":728,\"bytes\":2092209,\"alt\":null,\"title\":null,\"type\":\"image\/png\",\"href\":null,\"belowTheFold\":true,\"topImage\":false,\"internalRedirect\":\"https:\/\/akinatilla.substack.com\/i\/208395377?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc034ecf8-1d1b-45c0-ad4f-a27843935fa6_1672x941.png\",\"isProcessing\":false,\"align\":\"center\",\"offset\":false}' class=\"sizing-normal\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-link-expand\">\n<div class=\"pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M\"><\/button><button type=\"button\" class=\"pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M\"><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>As real-time translation approaches fluency, it will be tempting to conclude that learning foreign languages has become unnecessary.<\/p>\n<p>The practical need may indeed decline. People may no longer need years of study to ask for directions, place an order, conduct a routine discussion or handle standard correspondence.<\/p>\n<p>Learning a language, however, is not merely the ability to convert sentences.<\/p>\n<p>You begin to recognise what people say openly and what they prefer to leave unsaid. You notice how respect, intimacy, anger and humour are constructed. You understand why a degree of certainty that sounds natural in one language feels aggressive in another, or why a society may approach certain subjects indirectly.<\/p>\n<p>A machine can provide the equivalent of a sentence. Understanding why that sentence takes its particular form within a culture is something else.<\/p>\n<p>UNESCO&rsquo;s support for mother-tongue-based multilingual education is grounded not only in communication, but also in comprehension, learning outcomes, inclusion and respect for cultural diversity. The value of learning languages will not disappear merely because fewer words require manual translation.&#8311;<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the economic necessity of language learning will decline while its human meaning increases.<\/p>\n<p>When translation becomes a service available to everyone, the ability to remove the system and understand another person directly may become more valuable, not less.<\/p>\n<div>\n<hr>\n<\/div>\n<h2>The right to hear the original<\/h2>\n<div class=\"captioned-image-container\">\n<figure><a class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/%24s_!DXgK!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fddb3a8df-9a4d-4667-9a91-ea6f4b9db24c_1672x941.png\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"image2-inset\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/%24s_!DXgK!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fddb3a8df-9a4d-4667-9a91-ea6f4b9db24c_1672x941.png\" width=\"728\" height=\"409.5\" data-attrs='{\"src\":\"https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/ddb3a8df-9a4d-4667-9a91-ea6f4b9db24c_1672x941.png\",\"srcNoWatermark\":null,\"fullscreen\":false,\"imageSize\":\"normal\",\"height\":819,\"width\":1456,\"resizeWidth\":728,\"bytes\":1590897,\"alt\":null,\"title\":null,\"type\":\"image\/png\",\"href\":null,\"belowTheFold\":true,\"topImage\":false,\"internalRedirect\":\"https:\/\/akinatilla.substack.com\/i\/208395377?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fddb3a8df-9a4d-4667-9a91-ea6f4b9db24c_1672x941.png\",\"isProcessing\":false,\"align\":\"center\",\"offset\":false}' class=\"sizing-normal\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-link-expand\">\n<div class=\"pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M\"><\/button><button type=\"button\" class=\"pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M\"><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Some parts of this future cannot be managed through better software alone.<\/p>\n<p>When a system adapts speech culturally, should we have the right to know? Should we be able to compare what we heard with a more direct translation? Should access to the pauses, emphasis and uncertainty in the speaker&rsquo;s actual voice be considered a basic feature?<\/p>\n<p>In contracts, medical consultations, court proceedings, political speeches and official statements, a more natural translation may not always be a safer translation.<\/p>\n<p>A doctor expressing a possibility should not sound as though a diagnosis is certain. Hesitation during a contract negotiation should not be softened into apparent agreement. A witness&rsquo;s uncertainty should not disappear when the system improves the grammar.<\/p>\n<p>Accuracy may therefore be an insufficient standard. People may also need access to the original recording, notice when cultural adaptation has occurred and the ability to switch to a more direct rendering.<\/p>\n<p>We were late to ask what digital platforms were doing with our personal information.<\/p>\n<p>To avoid repeating that mistake with language technology, we should begin with another question:<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is happening to my words?<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<hr>\n<\/div>\n<h2>The new common language<\/h2>\n<div class=\"captioned-image-container\">\n<figure><a class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/%24s_!4Xq9!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe60e3c4-7eea-4edd-b61c-e6b6de5e7c04_1536x1024.png\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"image2-inset\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/%24s_!4Xq9!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe60e3c4-7eea-4edd-b61c-e6b6de5e7c04_1536x1024.png\" width=\"1456\" height=\"971\" data-attrs='{\"src\":\"https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/be60e3c4-7eea-4edd-b61c-e6b6de5e7c04_1536x1024.png\",\"srcNoWatermark\":null,\"fullscreen\":null,\"imageSize\":null,\"height\":971,\"width\":1456,\"resizeWidth\":null,\"bytes\":2801066,\"alt\":null,\"title\":null,\"type\":\"image\/png\",\"href\":null,\"belowTheFold\":true,\"topImage\":false,\"internalRedirect\":\"https:\/\/akinatilla.substack.com\/i\/208395377?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe60e3c4-7eea-4edd-b61c-e6b6de5e7c04_1536x1024.png\",\"isProcessing\":false,\"align\":null,\"offset\":false}' class=\"sizing-normal\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-link-expand\">\n<div class=\"pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M\"><\/button><button type=\"button\" class=\"pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M\"><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Humanity&rsquo;s common language may not ultimately be English, Mandarin, Spanish or any other natural language.<\/p>\n<p>It may be an invisible software layer operating continuously between languages.<\/p>\n<p>That layer could connect millions of people. It could make life easier for migrants, expand access to education, open new markets to small businesses and allow people who cannot reach each other today to speak directly.<\/p>\n<p>All of that would constitute real progress.<\/p>\n<p>The same layer could also alter the tone of our conversations, understand some languages better than others, smooth away cultural differences without telling us and deliver different versions of the same statement to different parts of the world.<\/p>\n<p>The central question, therefore, is not whether machines will eventually translate human language perfectly.<\/p>\n<p>It is whether we will remember the machine between us once the translation appears perfect.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>The common language of the future may not be a language at all. It may be a translation layer. And who controls that layer may become more important than which language any of us speaks.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We may be the last generation that needs a common language.<\/p>\n<p>We may also be the last generation able to assume that everyone heard the same conversation.<\/p>\n<div>\n<hr>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"button-wrapper\" data-attrs='{\"url\":\"https:\/\/akinatilla.substack.com\/subscribe?\",\"text\":\"Subscribe now\",\"action\":null,\"class\":null}' data-component-name=\"ButtonCreateButton\"><a class=\"button primary\" href=\"https:\/\/akinatilla.substack.com\/subscribe?\"><span>Subscribe now<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"button-wrapper\" data-attrs='{\"url\":\"https:\/\/akinatilla.substack.com\/p\/we-may-be-the-last-generation-that?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share\",\"text\":\"Share\",\"action\":null,\"class\":null}' data-component-name=\"ButtonCreateButton\"><a class=\"button primary\" 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href=\"https:\/\/www.deepl.com\/en\/press-release\/deepl_launches_voice_api_for_real_time_speech_transcription_and_translation?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">DeepL &mdash; Voice API for Real-Time Speech Translation<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/seamless.metademolab.com\/?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">Meta &mdash; Seamless Translation and SeamlessExpressive<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2411.11295?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">Transcending Language Boundaries: LLMs for Low-Resource Language Translation<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unesco.org\/en\/languages-education\/need-know?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">UNESCO &mdash; What You Need to Know About Multilingual Education<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div>\n<hr>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"button-wrapper\" data-attrs='{\"url\":\"https:\/\/akinatilla.substack.com\/p\/we-may-be-the-last-generation-that\/comments\",\"text\":\"Leave a 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