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Re:Forget subtitles: YouTube now dubs videos with AI-generat... by throwaway290 on Sunday July 30, 2023 @02:13PM (#36934220)
Your estimate is way too optimistic. But also what it doesn't get is usually key subject content and what it does get is low hanging fruit guessable from context.

Sometimes I try subtitles on something I cannot understand (because English is my second language) and that has not helped ever, it's always gibberish.

I tried going subtitles only a few times and gave up because I have to rewind and turn on sound every few seconds.

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Re:Forget subtitles: YouTube now dubs videos with AI-generat... by danielbln on Sunday July 30, 2023 @02:19PM (#36934292)
For me YouTube captions/transcription have always been really bad, but whenever YouTube switched to some Whisper equivalent (or Whisper itself, ha) it has improved tremendously and rarely gets things wrong, in my own experience.
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