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Hi!

If anyone know good Ai or Program to translate (and\or make subs) for video?

Tryed this but get errors all the times :( Looking alternatives

Thanks

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[–] SweetCitrusBuzz 6 points 1 week ago

LLMs are not and likely will never be good at translating things as they cannot and likely never will understand context, nor keep up with the way languages both natural and constructed change over time. Please do not use them as you will likely just confuse viewers.

As for programs to do subtitling yourself: https://alternativeto.net/software/subtitle-edit/?license=opensource

[–] nimpnin@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

EDIT: seems like Whisper might be your best bet, it does speech-to-text + translation via a CLI that can be installed with pip: https://github.com/openai/whisper

Huggingface has loads of models for local speech to text and translation, see https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/model_doc/speech_to_text

There is probably a nicer UI to use them than python coding, but I don’t know one.

[–] nimpnin@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

AFAIK, this is the Google translate model that you can deploy locally https://huggingface.co/google/mt5-large

[–] iuvi@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Thank you 🙏

[–] iuvi@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Thank you 🙏

[–] Xanza@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Depends on what language, and what kind of subtitles.