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Re:Playing Around with Machine Translation by edgarvaldes on Thursday September 14, 2023 @02:43PM (#37513020)
Google Translate and Google Search have a preference for acronyms.

I translate a lot of subtitles using GT, and every time a characters asks "Who?" GT gives me the version for "World Health Organization?" If a character is named "Mia", GT gives the hilarious "Missing in action", etc.

Still, the combo between WhisperX, Google Translate and Subtitle Edit are the Holy Grail I dream of just a year ago.

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Re:Playing Around with Machine Translation by vintermann on Friday September 15, 2023 @02:31AM (#37519259)
With very little context, that might happen. You're not translating the subtitles line by line, are you? Either way you're probably much better off using chatgpt.
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Re:Playing Around with Machine Translation by edgarvaldes on Friday September 15, 2023 @01:18PM (#37526298)
>You're not translating the subtitles line by line, are you?

Subtitle Edit has a built-in function that calls the GT API.

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