Tencent HY open-sources Hy-SimulMT for real-time Chinese and English simultaneous translation

What happened

Tencent HY’s Hy-SimulMT is now open source for real-time Chinese ↔ English simultaneous translation. Tencent HY lists ~3s latency, high accuracy, and real-time voice cloning, and says it outperforms most open-source models and commercial APIs. Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/collections/tencent/hy-simulmt ModelScope: https://www.modelscope.cn/collections/Tencent-Hunyuan/Hy-SimulMT GitHub: https://github.com/Tencent-Hunyuan/Hy-SimulMT

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The story so far

Tencent Hunyuan has open-sourced Hy-SimulMT, its model for real-time simultaneous interpreting between Chinese and English, with releases available on Hugging Face, ModelScope and GitHub. Tencent says Hy-SimulMT offers approximately three seconds of latency, high translation accuracy and real-time voice cloning. The company also claims the model outperforms most open-source models and commercial APIs.