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It's getting impossible to watch a specific show as an English learner (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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Sites with closed captions are a challenge to find; I've managed for a bit, and I found great ones.

However, now I'm trying to watch a show called Tokyo Vice where open subtitles aren't working, and I have to find Nova ones.

However, sites that have them don't work 99% of the time for this show; I've tried hundreds.

The frustration of not being able to watch a show and chill before bed is huge; this show I quoted isn't even available in my country.

So yeah... This was my rant.

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[–] 13 points 1 week ago (11 children)

So this might get some flag but I have hat some luck running a 100% local AI model to do this. Generating subtitles for movies or shows where I could not find any at all or know someone willing enough to translate the whole thing.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago

    This is literally one of the best use cases for LLM. I mean hell deepL exist and people aren't angry at it. Tho it's not really a general LLM.

    But yeah, anyone being upset someone is using a language model for one of the few legitimately useful and good things it provides us. Is just being a hater for the sake of being a hater.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    You wanna tell the rest of the class which model? Because I have had recommendations but they were more theoretical than actually vouched by someone running their local model. Whisper is supposed to be good for English and the free AI online will recommend it, but as soon as you scratch a bit you'll learn about better models for other languages (Chinese, in my case).

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    The landscape changes frequently even sometimes two of three times a week.

    I use whisper and various whisper variants generally. But I've recently tried hy-mt2 and found it to be really good as well.

    Hy-mt2 is a tencent model so it may do Chinese really well. My personal use case is translating Bollywood and Chinese movies to English.

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