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Re:Show HN: AI Dub Tool I Made to Watch Foreign Language Vid... by Timwi on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @03:25AM (#39535433)
Would have been nice to get a download link for a program I can just run locally.
Re:Show HN: AI Dub Tool I Made to Watch Foreign Language Vid... by bbitmaster on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @03:40AM (#39535518)
Alas! Didn't get the memo? We're In the era where AI tools are all "software as a service," and you must pay for individual inferences from the model. How could they charge for inferences if they gave you the model to download?
Re:Show HN: AI Dub Tool I Made to Watch Foreign Language Vid... by Timwi on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @03:51AM (#39535592)
Amen, bro.
Re:Show HN: AI Dub Tool I Made to Watch Foreign Language Vid... by leobg on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @04:44AM (#39535887)
I don't have access to any special model that I'm holding back from you in order to rent-seek.

Anyone can learn to build something like this. The parts are all available out there. There's Whisper. There's Mistral-7b. There's Tortoise, Coqui, SV2TTS. There's Python.

The bigger question is:

Would you want to?

I've been building web apps for several years now. I've sunk thousands of dollars into those projects. And literally years of my time. If I calculated my hourly wage, I'd be below a teenager mowing lawn. In Rwanda. And by a factor of 10x, probably.

The real ROI here is the learning. And that's not something I'm "taking" from anyone.

Re:Show HN: AI Dub Tool I Made to Watch Foreign Language Vid... by rubymamis on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @06:37AM (#39536604)
You are awesome, man! Keep it going and all the best of luck!