Forget subtitles: YouTube now dubs videos with AI-generated voices

Re:Forget subtitles: YouTube now dubs videos with AI-generat... by pasttense01 on Sunday July 30, 2023 @01:30PM (#36933663)

Some of us who are English speaking still read subtitles on English speaking media because of lack of clarity of the voices or we are hard of hearing.

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Re:Forget subtitles: YouTube now dubs videos with AI-generat... by almostnormal on Sunday July 30, 2023 @01:56PM (#36934010)

If the dubbing machine can understand, it could produce a more readable version in the original language, not only a different one.

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Re:Forget subtitles: YouTube now dubs videos with AI-generat... by hiccuphippo on Sunday July 30, 2023 @03:06PM (#36934779)

If it's the same machine as the one that generates the captions, then it's not very reliable yet.

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Re:Forget subtitles: YouTube now dubs videos with AI-generat... by NavinF on Sunday July 30, 2023 @06:29PM (#36936655)

Have you tried recently? YouTube captions have improved substantially over the last year. In my experience it now performs at human level which might not be good enough for every use case but it does make the "transcript" button and full text search practical

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