It’s not every day that you see actually useful applications of AI, but this might be one.
Not against this feature, but this quote made me laugh:
… once this is in place, people won’t have to scour the internet for sourcing subtitles to their favorite movies, shows, or even anime.
As if MTL will get anywhere near the nuance of a properly made human translation.
Personally, I would be happy even if it didn’t translate it but were able to give some half decent transcription of, at least, English voice into English text. I prefer having subtitles, even when I speak the language, because it helps in noisy environments and/or when the characters mumble / have weird accents.
However, even that would likely be difficult with a lightweight model. Even big companies like Google often struggle with their autogenerated subtitles. When there’s some very context-specific terminology, or uncommon names, it fumbles. And adding translation to an already incorrect transcript multiplies the nonsense, even if the translation were technically correct.
It won’t be better than human translated ones but begter than no subtitles. I don’t think even humans can make subtitles correctly without knowing context
What would be actually cool if it could translate foreign movies based on audio and add the English subtitles to it.
Translating a transcription should be easy.
Yes, if the transcript feature works well for the original language.
