• Alice@beehaw.org
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    19 hours ago

    My experience with generated subtitles is that they’re awful. Hopefully these are better, but I wish human beings with brains would make them.

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      17 hours ago

      subtitling by hand takes sooooo fucking long :( people who do it really are heroes. i did community subs on youtube when that was a thing and subtitling + timing a 20 minute video took me six or seven hours, even with tools that suggested text and helped align it to sound. your brain instantly notices something is off if the subs are unaligned.

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        16 hours ago

        Oh shit, I knew it was tedious but it sounds like I seriously underestimated how long it takes. Good to know, and thanks for all you’ve done.

        Sounds to me like big YouTubers should pay subtitlers, but that’s still a small fraction of audio/video content in existence. So yeah, I guess a better wish would be for the tech to improve. Hopefully it’s on the right track.

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          16 hours ago

          i just did it for one video :P it really is tedious and thankless though so it would be a great application of ml.

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        17 hours ago

        I did this for a couple videos too. It’s actually still a thing, it was just so time consuming for no pay that almost nobody did it, so creators don’t check the box to allow people to contribute subs