• datavoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    8 months ago

    OpenSubtitles is hot garbage, a viable alternative needs to exist. Pray for Subscene

      • thirteene@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        8 months ago

        I’ve been watching a few projects that are attempting to live translate videos. We are very close

        • JasonDJ@lemmy.zipEnglish
          0·
          8 months ago

          Live is great but I don’t think it’d be feasible for most languages to be a real 1:1 translation in live.

          Even a 10s delay allows for the whole sentence/phrase to be captured and translated in entirety. A lot of languages can drastically change meaning due to a word on the other side of the sentence.

          • GreatAlbatross@feddit.ukEnglish
            0·
            8 months ago

            The great thing about television, is that “live” is a flexible concept.
            The playback software could happily play 10 seconds ahead of what’s actually on the screen, and have plenty of time to translate like that.
            In the same way that we sometimes put delays into live events to allow the subtitling systems breathing room.

            • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
              1·
              8 months ago

              In the same way that we sometimes put delays into live events to allow the subtitling systems breathing room.

              I’ve always heard this was because of the infamous Superbowl Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction (where the malfunction was that only one nip was slipped and not both as was clearly intended)

          • azertyfun@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            0·
            8 months ago

            It’s already a thing with near-zero delay. MS Teams does it (dunno about the translation) and the QSMP Minecraft server has a bunch of livestreamers from different countries who use it for realtime translation.

            [EDIT: Live demo from today. Shit’s impressive.]

            What actually happens is that the current sentence gets “corrected” several times as you keep speaking. It’s a bit jittery and if the word order differs significantly then the translated sentence might be a bit wonky for a few seconds, and there are a few misses but overall it works really well; at least well enough that people who don’t speak each others’ language can have a conversation in their native tongues with essentially no more delay than reading speed. I can easily follow a livestream in a foreign language with the live subtitles (which was not the case a mere 6 months ago for any language other than English).

            • parody@lemmings.worldEnglish
              2·
              3 days ago

              Amazing clip you posted seven months ago here. Doesn’t seem like it could even be any better now.

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.deEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      They are transitioning to their .com domain, whose only bonus, other than the wait time and ads, is serving files directly rather than zipped. They could offer this feature on the original .org site with no downsides (the traffic won’t increase because 99% of devices will support gzip on the application layer anyway) but I wonder why they don’t.

  • Magnetar@feddit.deEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    I’m telling you, there will be a streaming service that will deepfake ads into finished movies. Darth Vader will turn at the at the camera and say “No, I am your father… and you should buy the Elon Musk biography on audible dot com for free”

  • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    Nord VPN can protect you from 3rd parties* that spy on your activities and sell your data.

    *Disclaimer: The Eye of Sauron does not apply. Offer not valid in Mordor.

    • justcallmelarry@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      7 months ago

      I have a script that I found somewhere and have made personal tweaks to: https://pastebin.com/RJf9kajk Put it in a file called sub-clean.sh and check the instructions in the script on how to add it to bazarr

      I have not noticed any issues with it, but there can of course be false positives (like someone saying the word “Facebook” in a series/movie), so your miles may wary. (this is why i leave the .trash.tmp file personally, so that i can restore the removed lines if needed)

      and as always, this script is provided as is, but it might help someone out there

    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      It looks like they really wanted to get both frames in one picture, so they did the obvious thing…load one frame on your phone, another frame on your partners, and then take your 2007 flip phone out of the drawer and use that to take a picture of both of them.

      • ilinamorato@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        Side note: why is it SO HARD to put two images together into one image file on a smartphone? There are multiple apps that want $1.99/mo for the privilege of making a collage, Instagram Layout has been broken for years now, and the first party solutions (particularly Google Photos) are overengineered in some big ways (like not allowing you to make a collage without some kind of border) and underengineered in others (like not allowing you to choose an image from a search, make a different search, and then choose another image). And as far as I can tell the only way to actually put one image on top of another is to use Double Exposure on Snapseed.

        We’ve had this problem solved on Windows for literally my entire life, and I’m pushing 40. So why can’t we figure out basic, no frills raster editing on mobile? I’m not even talking about layers (though, yes please). I’m talking about pretty much anything other than a filter.