• bizarroland
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    17 hours ago

    I also wonder how well it would work at translation. I have a lot of old DVDs that are in Mandarin that do not have subtitles and finding subtitles would be very difficult.

    I mean, if I had to first translate them and export the subtitle file and then put that into a translator and then it reimport it I can make do with that but the lower the bar is the more likely I’ll actually consume the media

    • @[email protected]
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      7 hours ago

      Depends, I think. Phonetic-based character systems like hiragana are done very well in portable translators because the characters are distinct and easily reproduced, even without ‘ai’. Glyph based ones and word-based will be harder, e.g. YouTube subtitles tend to be janky from time to time.

      Oh, and I think the plan is to transcribe in real time, not via subtitle files.