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  • ɔiƚoxɘup@infosec.pubEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I have no skin in this game but I think it sounds like they need to change their name from “open subtitles” to “closed captioning”

    Edit: stupid STT

  • Tag365@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    Why is it called “OpenSubtitles” if you have to pay for it to use it in any capacity?

    • model_tar_gz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      It’s “Open” in the same way that OpenAI is “Open”.

      “Open” ≠ “Open Source” or “Open Access”. It’s more like: “Open for Business”.

  • Slurpey@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I mean to be realistic, Whisper (the audio to text AI ) linked with chatGPT can subtitle anything in real time, translated in any language, in very high quality…

    • gato@feddit.deEnglish
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      1 year ago

      You just need a GPU running in realtime along side your video playback to analyse what is being played instead of a single text file with timecodes.

      Progress!

      • ashok36@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Could probably do it with something like a Google coral. You can get one for $60 these days. A lot cheaper than a GPU and less power hungry too.

        • gato@feddit.deEnglish
          0·
          1 year ago

          That’s still another thing that needs to be bought, installed, and fed with power.
          My low power would likely melt trying to run Whisper.

          • ashok36@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            1 year ago

            A USB coral uses barely any power and if you have a hard time installing USB devices…

            Besides, a lot of people are already using them for frigate. I am.

            • gato@feddit.deEnglish
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              1 year ago

              I was only aware of the m.2 variants.

              Still, it’s a thing to be bought which I have not had to do for years for my media solution.

      • Stephen304@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        1 year ago

        It doesn’t need to be realtime since you can pre generate an srt with time codes beforehand using something like bazarr. Whisper also runs faster than realtime in most model sizes, up to 32x realtime so it can really be worth it to add auto subtitles to media in your collection that’s missing subtitles as a one time job.

        • gato@feddit.deEnglish
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          1 year ago

          It’s an interesting idea to patch the holes when absolutely no srt files are available.
          But why not have an open repository where already present srt files could be shared by people.
          We could call it libre-subs or something like that.

  • macniel@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    contribute to a greater cause

    For the greater good, that is their pockets.