Violin: An open-source video translation skill that breaks language barriers

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This post introduces Violin, an open-source video translation tool built on Together AI's infrastructure. It details the pipeline's three core stages: ASR using Together's Whisper V3 endpoint, LLM translation leveraging Deepseek V4 Pro with user-defined translation rules, and TTS using Cartesia's Sonic 3 for natural-sounding voice generation. It also describes the integration of a video chat assistant powered by a vision-language model (Qwen3.5-397B-A17B) that understands both audio and visual content. The post highlights the availability of Violin as a web app, CLI tool, and agent skill, emphasizing its open-source nature.