AI lets Korean lectures speak students’ languages

When Korea University professor Hur You-kyoung prepared for class during the spring semester, she did more than pull up a PowerPoint presentation.

She logged into Tkita Caption, an artificial intelligence-powered real-time interpretation service, opened seven subtitle windows in different languages and clipped a microphone to her shirt.

Only then was she ready to begin teaching.

When Hur explained the Korean idiom “ilseokijo,” the subtitles provided an explanation along the lines of “a proverb d ...