[mandeepj]

> This is why I can't stand subtitles on videos, movies, and tv shows. Because of how my brain works, I can't help but read the text. And when it's there, so it "feels" like I'm watching a show where everyone repeats the last half of every sentence.

Ha! Translation is done in real time, but subtitles are not!! Were you thinking they are processed the same way? That's your confusion.

> I'm done reading the person's line when they are only 25-50% through speaking it.

How can an AI system translate someone when they haven't even spoken those words yet? Please check the title of the Post - it's a real-time system.

> I read _much_ faster than listening to someone saying the same thing.

Everyone reads and/or speaks at a different speed. You can pause a movie, but not a meeting, during the first time. You don't have to make any critical decisions while consuming entertainment, but on the contrary, at work, you might have to listen, process, understand, and connect the dots into various other subsystems and conclude how they may or may not affect your standing. At the end, might have to challenge the speaker or add to what they are saying. A lot of variables.