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Yes! My perennial problem is that most Chinese TV content has excellent subtitles, but they're burned in to the videos. So if I want to watch a Chinese show w
by xiii1408 5y ago
Yes! My perennial problem is that most Chinese TV content has excellent subtitles, but they're burned in to the videos. So if I want to watch a Chinese show with a friend who doesn't read Chinese, there's no option even for auto-translated subtitles. I've often thought of writing a script to generate subtitle files using text recognition, but haven't gotten around to it.
- throw_away 5y agoAh, but one thing I miss about the burned-in subtitles was how, on VHS at least, one could fast forward like 2-3x and still be able to read the captions. I double-lazied my way out of more than one high school book review where a boring book was made into a boring movie.
- crtasm 5y agoBut now we can do the same thing with softsubs, e.g. using VLC.
- xiii1408 5y agoThere's also the problem of content which doesn't have subtitles to begin with---YouTube's automatic subtitle generation is great, but could be improved and expanded to languages other than English.
- moffkalast 5y ago> YouTubes auto mathy subtitle gen ration is grate FTFY
- danuker 5y agoNah, it's better than that. But it doesn't recognize sentences, and a word appears at a time.
- Jach 5y agoIt is expanded, at least to Japanese. What's also fun is you can then have it auto translate the auto generated subs. The results are... not typically great, but the potential!
- userbinator 5y agoA long time ago, I tried the "autosub" feature with anime and it replaced understanding with unintentional (dry) humour. The output had phrases that resembled a news transcript, which is probably what they were training the system on.
- BlueTemplar 5y agoSadly, they seem instead to have been recently removing this functionality (as well as auto-translation of those).