alt Hacker NewsI love having auto-generated subtitles available, but I am still skeptical that we can call them "accurate" yet. For many languages the models are quite weak, and even for English and German on YouTube I see errors all the time.
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IbrahimF96 • today at 11:52 AM
Yeah I agree the Youtube ones are not very good, I am not sure what they have implemented behind the scenes for it. However this uses the Whisper Large model which is quite a bit better than the Youtube auto generated ones. Only catch is you need to have the video on disk and wait a bit longer lol
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Even for English (which surely has the best support) anything outside of urban American accents is still incredibly weak - you can pretty much guarantee very noticeable mistakes on even highly intelligible mainstream urban British/Irish/Aussie/Kiwi/SA accents. Stronger regional / rural accents & dialects usually render generated subtitles entirely useless.
Definitely a domain a million miles from being solved if even English is this bad.